Asian Studies

For the last several weeks of school, we're going to be studying world cultures. Each week, we'll focus on a different continent and look at a few countries within each continent. I don't have a ton of projects planned, since this time of year starts to get busy, but I am planning on a couple of them and each week we're trying some kind of food from that continent.

So, last week we studied Asia. We looked at several countries; India, China, and Israel. We mostly read about what their main religion is, languages they speak, and foods they eat. Some of our literature was about folktales from those countries and here are a few of the books we read:

We are also using the heck out of our Reader's Digest Children's Atlas. It has great illustrations and the book is HUGE, so you can really see things well. The map of each country is covered in pictures of things like landmarks, exports, animals, and traditions. I think it might be out of print, but you may be able to find it used somewhere.

We learned that the national bird of India is the peacock, so we made our own with paper and paints.

Now, this week we're on to Europe :)