South Korea

an-nyeong-ha-se-yo!

Our travels took us to South Korea this week as we learned about the peninsula east of China.

We started off learning a korean song, discovering the meaning behind their flag and doing some mapping activities.

We learned about the history of Korea and the conflict that has occured there over the years.  We read about what it is like to live in North Korea and prayed for the people there.

I found out that they are actually remembering what I teach them (always nice to know!).  Sean noticed that it was 'Korea week' and started telling them a bit of the history -

  Sean:  there is an area in between North and South Korea -

  Jennifer:  you mean the demilitarized zone?

  Sean  that's right.  It's a span of a quarter mile -

  Jennifer:  actually our book says it is 2 miles wide.


I guess they were listening to me- NICE!

Other activities of the week:

We learned about 6 animals and put them on our animal board.

We made and decorated some crowns while learning about Korea's history of metal craft and elaborately decorated metal crowns (ours were made of cardstock and stickers with a little glitter.)

Homeschool turned into "Hotel School" this week as we spent a few days on vacation.  While away we learned about and played some popular Korean games: Kawi, Bawi, Bo (known to us as rock, paper, scissors) and Jae gi cha gi (hacky sack).  No pictures of the games, but here's one from our trip.  We spent a lot of time swimming, and tired out all the kids!

We ended up our week with a recipe - Korean beef. 

This recipe did not go over as well as last weeks.  It turned out pretty good, but the kids did not enjoy it at all.

That's it for this week, time to say goodbye to Korea and continue on our travels...