Children of the World

As part of our kindergarten Social Studies, Kenna has been learning about children in other parts of the world. Here are neat websites that made helped bring these lessons down to her level and gave information that a young student would be interested in learning about. Some include videos, too.


A Kid's Life in Italy   Also on this same site, you can access reports written by children from other countries, such as China, Mexico, Ireland and Russia.

Studying about a kid's life in the Sahara Dessert took a lot more research. We did find an interesting site that talked about a recent discovery in the Sahara where scientists have found a huge burial site of not one, but two civilizations that once lived in the Sahara region before it became a vast dessert. Check out "A Glimpse of Life in a Green Sahara".

Our Google search led us to a page that gave information on living in the Sahara Dessert today. And You Tube had a video that gives a tour of the Sahara Dessert.

Searching for how kids in Iceland live, we found that TIME for Kids' Around the World site has lot of neat resources. We studied about Maya Laufeyjardottir, who is 8 years old and lives in Iceland. Maya tells all about a typical day in his life in Iceland. Then we found a page on 11 year old
Josef Dimitriou, who tells about a typical day in his life in Greece.

When we studied about kid's in the U.S.A., I let Maddy and Kenna do the lesson. They did an oral report all about their life as a kid in America. We talked about a typical day for them and how it was different from some of the kids we had studied about.

For our study about children in Africa, I found a website in which a young girl wrote about living in South Africa. It was touching because, although she was one of the luckier kids and lives a pretty privileged  life, she also is aware of those around her who are less fortunate and shares about their lives, too.

We are fortunate enough to be friends with both a family who moved to the U.S. from China and from Mexico (actually, 2 families). They have taught us a lot about their culture and about cooking authentic foods from their homelands.

If you happen to live nearby a town that has ethnic restaurants or grocery stores, you could also take a field trip to explore both. We happen to live close to both Mexican restaurants (one of my friend's husband owns one of the local Mexican restuarants). We have an international grocery store about an hour from us and we make several trips there each year, too.  We have some favorite foods we keep going back for and like to try new things, too.