Continent Box: Africa

Wao, it has been a long time since we started studying about Africa. With the holidays preparations, the ballet recital, our Christmas vacations to Canada and then the New Year’s cold, we didn’t have time to finish our African exploration. Here’s our last post about our Africa box.

However, better late than never! So, what’s in the box?

The envelopes have the flags, landmarks, animals and instruments cards. Our Africa box is kind of full thanks to Daddy and….MOMMY, of course!!! lol

Goodies- souvenirs: Daddy brought these from his trip to South Africa.

Wood spoons, Mandela’s quotes cards, Apartheid’s museum magnets and pens, necklaces, candles, keychains, Cape point’s magnet.

 

Landmarks cards

I made a few Africa landmarks cards (has a picture on front and a description on back), Postal cards and magnets Daddy brought from his trip.

 

Currency

Daddy brought some money making sure we’d have a representation of each one of the Big 5. We save it inside this beautiful Africa-shaped box.

 

Animals of Africa

I made these cards to match our plastic figurines. We are still needing a representation of a Meerkat, hyena, gnu and African wild dog figurines. And I forgot to make a card for the Pelican and Warthog! If someone need the cards, for personal use ONLY, please!, here’s the link. Also, Montessori Tidbits has some animals cards for free.

Parts of an Elephant cards

Here’s Pinky making sure her elephant figurine has all the correct parts…lol I made this Elephant cards (here’s the link but please just for your personal use and sorry they are NOT perfect). However,  Montessori Print Shop has beautiful ones plus a booklet.

Parts of a Flamingo cards

She checked the flamingo, too! The flamingo cards are from Montessori Print Shop for free!

 

Books, games, puzzles, music Cd

 

Instruments of Africa cards

I made these cards to complete ones I found at Montessori Tidbits for FREE . Here’s the link (Please these are for your PERSONAL use!). Just a few instruments to compare/contrast the ones we know.

 

Math

When Pinky was just a toddler, I made these cute Elephants out of a stencil and foam. We loved to sing the 10 elephants song balancing on a spider web, but in Spanish! Then, my mom came for vacation and made giraffes to join the elephants. Yesterday, we found them inside our Africa box. After singing the Elephants song (in Spanish, of course!), and Pinky improvised a giraffe version of the song , we did some math practice. I love the moments when our brain lights up! jajajaja

First, some addition! (the cards are from the Dollar store!) The number eight card is part of a few number cards I made with cardstock a while back! RE-CYCLING!!!

 

Then, some subtraction!

Oh my!!! She is REALLY excellent!

Hard work pays off!!!

Now that we are having a cold weather plus the flu season is picking up, I think that learning about our World is going to be lots of fun!!!

So, where are we going next???? Oops, wait, I still have to post about our art activities…..after all, Pinky is just 4 years old and to get messy is a must!

 

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