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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Perusing Peru ~ Lesson Plans and Links for Learning about Peru

I know…it’s a bad title. But can you blame me? :)

One of the last countries that we learned about in South America was Peru. Peru is the third largest country in South America and nearly half of the country is covered by the Amazon jungle. There are many plants and animals found in Peru that are not found anywhere else on earth. The Andes mountains also run through the country of Peru.

You can view the other countries that we’ve studied from South America on my South America geography page.

Week 1 Layout

Monday

  • Review our South America song from Geography Songs {see words below}
  • Use atlas and globe to locate the country of Peru; read in the atlas about Peru
  • Read one of our books from our bookshelf about Peru.

  South America

    Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia,

    Ecuador, Peru and Chile and Bolivia,

    Uruguay and Paraguay, Brazil and Guyana

    and Suriname ~

    These are the countries of South America.

    The French have French Guiana.

    The British have the Falkland Islands.

    Brazil is the biggest country and

    Chile is the longest.

Tuesday

  • Review geography song
  • Learn {and review} some terms: mountains, mountain pass, lake, desert, rain forest, jungle
  • Independent reading from bookshelf
  • Filled out the map of Peru notebooking page

Mapping Peru  Click on thumbnail to download pdf file

Wednesday

Thursday

Week 2 Layout

Monday

Flag of Peru Click on thumbnail to download pdf file

Tuesday

Wednesday Thursday
  • Summarized one of our reading books and copy summary/dication
  • Added our notebooking pages to our binder and stamped our passports!

Books & Resources

 

Resources and Websites

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4 Comments:

  • I loved the title, but I'm just quirky like that.

    By Blogger Ticia, At September 7, 2010 at 9:22 AM  

  • Oh, we will definitely have to save this link! We love doing little unit studies of different countries. We just finished one up on China, which we enjoyed greatly. Thanks for the awesome lesson ideas and links! We'll save this for when we are caught in the doldrums of the day to day school and need something refreshing. If I may ask, how long does it take you to do this each day?

    I'm fairly new on here, and look forward to following your blog! Please keep it up!

    Susan

    By Blogger Susan, At September 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM  

  • Love your unit studies! We will be returning to you for ideas when JC old enough to do them!

    By Blogger Joyful Learner, At September 7, 2010 at 11:12 AM  

  • Oh, we will definitely have to save this link! We love doing little unit studies of different countries. We just finished one up on China, which we enjoyed greatly. Thanks for the awesome lesson ideas and links! We'll save this for when we are caught in the doldrums of the day to day school and need something refreshing. If I may ask, how long does it take you to do this each day?

    I'm fairly new on here, and look forward to following your blog! Please keep it up!

    Susan

    By Anonymous Lily of the Valley, At December 15, 2010 at 12:56 PM  

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