Geography notebook

We are "visiting" so many different countries this year with our co-op, that I thought it would be fun to do a geography notebook this year.  We are identifying it on a map, coloring the flag, learning briefly about a famous person either from that country or had something to with that country to make him famous, getting a recipe from that country (that hopefully we can make), and a famous landmark from that country. 

The recipe we will try to make along with other food items from that country sometime during the week for our cultural meal.  My hopes so far of listening to music from that country and using decorations from there have failed so far. 

We did France first and last week studied China.  (We are still doing China.)  We ordered a China kit this summer that the boys used in their books.  I wish we could do that for every country we study :)  The following pictures are all from Alex's book, but they both look the same (basically.)

We studied Louis Braille for our famous person.  I actually printed the alphabet on cardstock and poked the holes out with a screw so the boys could feel the alphabet.

Paper cutting from China

Chinese knot and coin.