Around the World Day 2009
>> Tuesday, November 3, 2009
As I mentioned in my Weekly Wrap-Up, last Friday was our homeschool group's sixth annual Around the World Day event. It's a geography fair born of an idea from Hands-On Geography. Each family chooses a country to represent. They spend some learning about their chosen country, then, they put together a display for our event.
Each display contains:
- A presentation board displaying fun facts about the country
- A food and/or drink from the country
- Fact sheets for each family
- Passport stamps for each child
- Postcards
- artwork
- crafts
- brochures
- dioramas
- currency
- posters
- music
- reports
- souvenirs
- stamps
- maps
Our attendance was a bit off this year, but we still had a great time (after the initial stress of the day) and all the kid did a fantastic job on their displays, as you can see:
France (ours)
China
Egypt
Mexico
Russia
Afghanistan and New Guinea
Mexico II
We always really enjoy Around the World Day, though I'd be lying if I said this year wasn't really stressful for me and I'd have totally bailed if I hadn't been the event organizer. I'm glad I was forced to follow through, though. I always enjoy looking back on it, even if the actual event and the preparations for it sometimes stresses me.
6 comments:
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing.
The displays are wonderful! My oldest has been involved twice in history fair projects and I know how much work and research goes into a project like that.
That's very cool! Girl Scouts do something similar for International Fair (also called "Thinking Day") and my daughter looks forward to it every year.
Wow that looks like a lot of work but the finished presentations look fantastic! What was the food from Afghanistan?
Glad that it went well! It looks fabulous!!!!
We do something similar in Brownies.
This was the first one that we'd been to. Maybe next year we'll be able to take time from our regularly scheduled curriculum to actually do a display.
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