Family Night- South Africa

This was a blast! We studied South Africa today as a family. For anyone wanting to add some craziness to their lives, this has been so much fun to study countries. The kids all look forward to it, and they really enjoy learning. I try to change it up and keep it interesting.
In these pictures the kids are doing their version of African dancing. Africa has lots of different ritual dancing. About 2 weeks ago Chelsea and Brooke started to work on making these masks for the dancing. I bought the instruments at a store we have here in town. It is a fun store because it carries items from third world countries, that the people actually made. The kids were excited to have items made in Africa for their dancing.
The four masks are a hunter, bird, antelope, and rabbit!

We read a book about a little boy from Africa who made a golomito. I bought Luke one that was made by a child in Africa. He has named him Jackson! Not exactly an african name, but right now his favorite name.

We also learned about the lives of children in Africa, which is actully rather depressing. I tried to modify it, so Brooke would be able to sleep. Chelsea said the closing prayer and she prayed for about 20 min. most of it about helping the African children.

I made food from Africa, which was not anyones favorite, and yet it took me the longest to make.

We studied the animals of Africa, since they have all the cool animals.

And then the kids recorded what they learned in their passport journals.