India Study with FREE resource links

So today we had our fab Home Ed Geography Club and the country of the month was India.

DD did her project on a whole variety of things.  All self-researched from books.  So proud she did it all by herself this month, with no help or prompting!  She focused predominantly on the Taj Mahal but also with a variety history, nature and geography as well -

DS and I read a book of Indian Myths together and he talked about his favourite one, The Birth of Indra.  And also he talked about the various Indian Gods.  He also made the Indian flag and talked about the origins of that.

As always, the work produced by all the children for their Show & Tells was vivid and varied. Almost all the children stood up to present their work, and those that didn't added their contributions to the Sharing Table -

After the children had finished their presentations, we moved to our regular activities.  Of course we had our food tasting -

We had homemade daal, cumin fried paneer, not homemade naan bread & not home made Indian sweets (not pictured)! I was amazed that all the daal got eaten (& a little disappointed as I was kinda hoping the have the left overs for dinner ha ha).


We had a table for colouring and games -

This month I got our colouring pages from -

http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/flag-of-india

http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/indian-woman-in-sari

http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/indian-rangoli-with-elephant

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/World-Traveler-Coloring-Book-Heritage-Design-Originals/157421960X

In addition to this we had our A-Z table - where everyone works collaboratively to try and collate an A-Z of the country of the month.  This is a great was to consolidate and reinforce our learning - and all it requires is a few pens and a large sheet of paper (we use rolls of lining paper).  This month we couldn't think of an F, Q, U or V!

Instead of a craft this month, me and another parent brought along a few games.  We used several but the most popular two were -

http://www.argos.co.uk/BrainBoxTheWorld

https://www.tesco.com/direct/flags-of-the-world-family-game

And finally we had a table of worksheets, for those that wanted them.  This month, I used the fabulous resources I found on -

http://www.3dgeography.co.uk/india-worksheets

The greatest success for me, as always, was seeing the children learn together and really engage in the learning activities.  They listened beautifully to each others presentations and are always really respectful of each others efforts. 

My personal highlight, even beyond their presentations, was that my two, DS especially - who struggles ENORMOUSLY in anything beyond a 1-2-1 environment - were both able to sit down and complete various games and activities - including actually finishing complete colouring pages (this is nothing short of a miracle for these two) -