India for Kids ::Week 1::

This week we started a 3 week study of India. Here's a little peek into what we've been talking about.

Monday

• Locate and map India
• Learn new geography song (see video clip below)
• Color/label map of India
• Use atlas to find India and learn more about resources

Geography Song: Countries of South Asia

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Tuesday

• Children Just Like Me notebooking page
• Learned about India's flag - colored/designed our own {click on image to download pdf}
• Visited Time.com to do a little online sightseeing
• Read about Amy Carmichael {missionarary}
  

Click image to download the India flag printable

Wednesday

• Studied the peacock (India's national bird)
• Talked about the Himalayans and Mt. Everest

Thursday

• Geography term: peninsula
• Looked at clothing that is worn in India

Books We Used

Websites We Used

• Time for Kids India - takes you on a little "tour" of India with "A Day in the Life", sightseeing, history timeline, lingo, etc...
• Time for Kids sightseeing tracker - a fill-in-the-blank guide to follow along with the tour
• Kids Konnect - LOTS of resources for India here
• Geographia - intro to India along with history
• Travel for Kids - book ideas for kids based on geographic areas in India.
• Children Like Me notebooking page - notebooking page designed for kids to fill in with their answers after reading Children Just Like Me - and I'm a bit partial to the page since I made it up :)