Countries, Cultures, Biomes, Artist, and Music Outline of Lessons

Potential outline for year:
July: Nighttime sky/space
August: Intro to geography/maps/globes etc Europe: England
September: Spain , France
October: Italy, Holland
Nov. Russia (Tundra), Antartica/Artic
Dec. finish arctic
Jan. Asia: China, India (mountains)
Feb. Asia: Japan
March:Africa: Kenya/S. Africa
April: Australia (coral reef) start: North America: Us. Canada
May: finish North Am. , South America: brazil and Mexico
June: Break


Spines: books that will be used on several occasions
Atlas
Disney's Our World
A Life Like Mine
Usborne Art Treasury and Discovering Great Artists
Wild Places
Wee Sing Around the World


Geography Intro: ( 1 week)
DOW: pages:
Atlas: pgs. 8-9
Living Books: Katy and the Big Snow, How to Make an Apple Pie and see the World, Somewhere in the World Right Now(timezones)
Activities: make a paper mache globe
Wee Sing: Hello to all the Children of the World

Continent: Asia Disney Our World (DOW) pgs. 42-43
Altas: p. 26-29
Country: China Science Focus: Mountains (2 weeks)
Disney's My World: pages 44-47
A Life Like Mine: pages
Wild Place : mountains: pgs. 2-32
Living Books: Kite Flying, Ruby's Wish, Lon po po, The Empty Pot, Laterns and Fire Crackers, Good Morning China, The story about Ping, The Moon Lady, Moonbeams, dumplings and dragon boats, In the Sun, In the Snow, , A little Tiger in the Chinese Night, Tikki tikki tembo, the Chinese Mirror, Little Pear, The year of the Panda?,
Recipe: fried rice,
Activities: color map, color flag,locate on globe, make a dragon out of cereal boxes, make paper lanterns,
Artist Focus: Shen Quan, activity: Chinese cat painting

Music/Composer Focus:
Wee Sing: Fong Swei


Country: India Science Focus: mountains (1 week)
DOW pages: 48-51
ALLM: 124-125
Living Books: A Little Princess (IR) , Binya's Blue Umbrella (IR) , Gandi, Little Black Sambo, To the Top, The Story of Little Gagaji
Activities: map and flag, make flat bread,
Wee Sing: Anila, Anilae
Country: Japan Science Focus: seas/oceans (2 weeks)
DOW pages: 64-67
ALLM:
Wild Places: 2-32
Living Books: Grandfather's Journey, the Bicycle Man, the Wise old Woman, Two Foolish Cats, Crow Boy
Artist Focus: Hokusai, Activity: sea print
Cultural Experience: japanese grill or aquarium visit
Wee Sing: Ame, Ame

Continent: Eupope Disney Our World pages: 105-107
Atlas: 22-25
Country: England (1 week)
DOW pages: 140-143
ALLM pages: 42-43
Cultural Experience: English Tea
Living Books:
Artist Focus: Damien Hirst (activity: spin painted plate)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (activity: stormy seas)
Music: Wee Sing: Lavender's Blue
Country: Spain (1 week)
DOW: pages: 132-135
ALLM:
Living books: The story of Ferdinand, Isabel saves the prince,
Artist Focus: Picasso (fractured friend, clown collage)
Wee Sing: Mi Burro
Country: France (2 weeks)
DOW pages: 112-115
ALLM:
Living Books: Adele and simon, Antole, This is Paris, The cat who walked across France , Joan of Arc Step into Reading, Look what came from France, Giraffe that Walked to Paris, Bon Appetite Berite, Mirette on a High Wire, Madeline, Glorious Flight, Joan of Arc, Tour de France
Cultural Experience: go bike riding and have a mini-tour de france
Activities: map and flag, make crepes
Artist Focus: Monet (read Linnea in Monets Garden, Layered lilies project)
Manet? (melted crayon painting?) booK:
Degas (pastel dancers, chalk on cloth) booK:
Wee Sing: Frere Jacques
Country: Italy (1 week)
DOW: pages 124-127
ALLM: pages
Cultural Experience: Italian Venician carnival
Living Books: papa piccolo, St. Francis and the friendly beasts,
Activity: map and flag, make Italian Ice
Artist Focus: Michelangelo (Activity: paint on paper placed on underside of table while lying on back) Di Vinci : book: Di Vinci and the flying boy
Activity: map and flag, make Italian Ice
Wee Sing: Mio Galletto
Country: Holland
Dow: pages:
ALLM: pages: 108
Living Books: Boy who held back the sea, the hole in the dike, the cow who fell in the canal, The little Riders, The Gret Tulip Trade?,
Acitivities: map and flag, tulips
Artist Focus: VanGogh: activity: swirly landscape books:
Wee Sing: Alle Eedjes
Country: Russia Science focus: Tundra (study in Nov. ) ( 2 weeks)
DOW pages: 128-131
ALLM:
Artist Focus: Kandinsky Art: project: color contrast concentric circles
Living books: Sasha and the Wolfcub (IR), Peter and the Wolf (story and music) ,Another Celebrated Dancing Bear, The Peddler's Gift, The Fool of the world and the Flying ship, The cat and the Cook, the mitten, One Fine Day, One Small Square: Tundra,
Activities: make pretzels? maps and flag
Music Focus: Tchaikovsky and the nutcracker

Continent: Africa (living books: Ashanti to Zulu, A country Far Away, Jaffa's Journey, Koi and the Kola Nuts, Africa Calling , Wee Sing: Tue Tue, African instruments
Country: Kenya Science Focus: Grasslands (2 weeks)
DOW: pages: 22-25
ALLM:
Artist Focus: African masks Project : cardboard mask
Living Books: Growing Up Massai (some chapters as IR), Masai and I, Moja means One: Swahili counting book, One Small Square: Grasslands,
Wee Sing: Kanyoni Kanja
Activities: map and flag
Country: South Africa (1 week)
Dow Pages: 34-37
ALLM: 52
Listening for Lions? Akimbo and the Elephants?
Food Experience:
Activities: map and flag

Continenent: Australia/Oceania
Country: Austalia science focus: Coral reefs (2 weeks)
DOW: pages: 94-97
ALLM: pages: 62
Living Books: Big Rain Coming, Koala Lou, Wombat Stew, The Very Bratful Kangaroo, The Pumpkin Runner,Colors of Australia, One Small Square: coral reefs , Down Under Down Under Artist Focus: Johnny Bulunbulun (activity: scratched animals)
Wee Sing: Kookaburra
Activities: make pavlova dessert?
Continent: North America DOW pages: 173-175

Country: U. S. Science Focus: Deserts? (2 weeks)
DOW pages: 180-187
ALLM: pages: 96, 120
Wild Places: Deserts: 65-95
Living Books: One Small Square Deserts, Granberry Valentine, When I was young in the mountains, Lentil, yankee doodle, The story of the Statue Of Liberty, First Flight, My Great Aunt Arizona, Oxcart Man,
Activities: map and flag, make a flag from graham crackers, white choc. chips, frosting
Artist Focus: Mary Cassatt (activity: tempera monoprint/mother child paintings) book:
Georgia OKeefe : (activity: petal collage and painted flowers) book:
J. M. W. Turner:
Wee Sing: UHE BASHO SHO, patriotic song
Country: Canada: Science Focus: River and Lakes (1 week)
DOW pages: 176-179
Living Books: Morning on the Lake?, Very last , first time, Prairie Boys Winter, The Flight of the Union, Chesters Barn, One Small Square,
Activities: map and flag, make snowshoes our of cardboard and yarn
Wee Sing: Going over the Sea

Continent: South America/ Latin America Dow: 147
Country: Brazil Science Focus: Rain forest (2 weeks)
DOW pages: 154-157
WIld Places: 33-64
Living Books: Ond Day in the Tropical Rain Forest (IR) , From another World?, One Small Square: Rainforests, The Great Kapok Tree, Rain Forest Adventures,
Activities: map, flag, rainforest mural (see internet link for pics) , make a miniture rainforest in a fishbowl,
Cultural Experience: play soccer
Artist Focus: Henri Rousseau (not born here but painted many rain forest scenes, activity: jungle scene)
Wee Sing: Ciranda
Country: Mexico (1 week)
DOW pages: 162-165
Living Books: Alejandro's Gift?,
Wee Sing: Pin Pon
Artisti: Freda Kahlo
Cultural Experience/Food:
Continent: Antartica Science Focus: antartica (January) (2 weeks combined)
Living Books: Mr. Poppers Penguins (IR), A trip to antarctica, A for Antartica, Polar Wildlife,
Continent: Arctic:
DOW: pages:
Living Books: Little Polar Bear, Take me Home?
Activity: make an igloo; 3 cups of flour, 1.5 cups of salt, 3/4 cup h2o gradually, knead until ball is formed, Press into ice tray and freeze 2 hours,