Middle East

For the Middle East, instead of making a lapbook, I got a notebook from here: http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/downloader.php?file=userfiles/100/08936399390.pdf&id=3041

It would have been better if I had found this earlier – as it includes the central Asian countries which we ended up leaving blank. Filled in capital cities, major rivers etc on map (v. basic) Filled in ‘country profile’ for each, and noted 5 or 6 interesting facts about country – often gleaned from “Window on the World” which we used instead of 100 gateway cities. Got photos from internet to put in too. Stuck in pictures of books we’d read under appropriate countries, as we’d been lent a number of other books by a family who had lived in the middle East.

Art: 

·      golden eagle- torn paper

Golden Eagle from torn paper

·      eagle hand print Bible verse - idea found from internet:

·      camel in desert textured picture

·      silhouette camel cutting

Meal

Katie preparing kefta

Parents had to dress up - of course

Felafel, hummus, kefta and tabouli - ready to share

Camel poem (copied onto camel paper; poem from “Animals Animals – called “Commisariat Camels” by Rudyard Kipling)