Argentina Day 1

Mel is going to a sports camp this week. It's only for a few hours every day, but it was the perfect thing to wear this jersey to.

This was such an amazing find. A few weeks ago I found it at a children's second hand store and had to get it! Rocky has one, so now they can match while watching soccer games. Aw....cute!

The first step was to get a stamp in her passport. In our case, it's actually stamps I created, printed out and then we glued on. She'll get an exit stamp at the end of the week. We found Argentina on a map and talked about time zones.

Then we moved on to the geography of Argentina. I found great mapping worksheets at Homeschool Creations. She has them for most of the countries we are "visiting", so I plan on using them if she has them. 

I picked up some books from the library last week where the story either takes place in Argentina or was written by or illustrated by an Argentine. First, we talked about an author's purpose, using an Author's Purpose Pie chart from Classroom Confections. Then, we read the books. Today we read Gauchada by C. Drew Lamm and The Frog with the Big Mouth by Teresa Bateman. Both girls LOVED The Frog with the Big Mouth. After reading, Melodie did mini book report sheets I made. 

It was movie day! Saludos Amigos is the animate movie I chose to go with Argentina. It actually goes through three countries in South America. Only one short, Gaucho Goofy, is all about Argentina. But, I wanted to take the opportunity to expose both kiddos to an older non-princess movie. And Aria loves the fab five. To prepare for the movie, we learned about gauchos. We looked up gaucho clothes and watched this video from National Geographic: Gauchos. We didn't have time to do these today, but I gave her these cute paper dolls to do whenever she wants. 

We watched the movie and Gaucho Goofy does a lot of dances, and we'd been sitting for a while, so we tried the tango using a YouTube Video. So You Think You Can Dance contestants have nothing to worry about. We are not very good ballroom dancers, but having seen them do it on SYTYCD, we have a greater appreciation for how difficult it must be to learn. 

I made Movie Madness worksheets for every animated movie we'll be watching. Here's the one I made for Saludos Amigos.

What she has been loving about some of these worksheets (the mapping one and this movie madness one) is that I let her use our tablet to look up some of the things she didn't know (where are the andes? is the minuet an Argentine dance). I think she has liked looking up these answers more than anything else.