Olympics & China

Georgia has learned more about the Olympics and it's history. She read about the olive branch wreath and about the Olympic flag and what the rings and colors symbolize. She made a mini book about Greece. She took a quiz on what she learned. We found a lot of good activities at the Olympic section of Enchanted Learning. She's also made a mini book on China. Olivia colored a Chinese Flag. The girls both watched a BrainPop video on the Great Wall of China, and Georgia watched one on communism. Olivia made a mini book on Chinese Animals and on Chinese New Year. These were found in the China section of Enchanted Learning. We read about the history of chopsticks.

And we have watched more of the Olympics. Georgia has been following Phelps. She tells Mark all about it when he gets home. She also likes the running races. She'll say the countries that are competing in a race and who's first. She's recognizing more country flags through this, that's for sure. She's pretty good with geography, but if she's not sure where a country is she'll check the map on the wall. We also have a world map laminated placemat that we'll have beside us for quick reference. (Those placemats are really nice. We have one of the US Presidents, a Solar System one, and a United States map placemat. On the backs they have interesting facts. I believe we picked them up for under $1 each at Walmart a couple years ago. We don't always use them as placemats, but when we do the girls love to look them over and learn something new.)

Some Internet sites we checked out were:

Animal Record Breakers Photo Gallery
2008 Summer Games (Nat.Geo.)
GeoGames (Nat.Geo.)
Olympic Timeline (Funschool)
Olympic Quiz (Funschool)
Sports Jumble (Funschool)
Sports Around the World (Funschool)