We've arrived in 1492

For the next two weeks in our history studies, we're learning about "explorers," circa 1492.

Today, we read the first section from Story of the World chapter 31, about Christopher Columbus. We also read p. 9-23 of Where do you think you're going, Christopher Columbus? Then Patrick read about Western Exploration in the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia and wrote a paragraph about it.

I took the kids to the Lebanon library today, where we found the "Drive Thru History" DVD. The first episode is about Christopher Columbus, the Khan-Polo Connection, Florence, Setting Sail in Spain and Amerigo Vespucci. The kids are going to watch it with the babysitter when I'm at the birth center on Wednesday.

We also checked out books about Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama. The plan is to read them together and have the older two write reports about what they learned.

If I can make it the the UPS store, I'll copy the student pages from the Story of the World activity guide for the kids. Delilah likes the coloring pages and that gives them something to do while we read aloud.