Exploring Brazil

For the last three weeks we have been learning about Brazil.


One night I tried to serve a semi-authentic Brazilian dish.



When in Brazil, eat what the Brazilians do.

We played GeoSafari to help us learn the Countries and Capitols of South America.

This was our read aloud. It is a biography of the pilot who flew with 4 others into Auca territory in Ecuador to try to reach them with the gospel. It was his sister Rachel who eventually, along with Elizabeth Elliot and her daughter Valerie, went and lived with the tribe and saw them accept the forgiveness of Jesus.

We made a replica of an MAF plane like the one Nate Saint flew to help Missionaries in the jungle.

All of us enjoyed learning about the animals of the Amazon Rain Forest. We continue to watch our ants. They are not the leaf-cutting ants of the Amazon. They are harvester ants, but they do stay very busy.

While we read books, they created more and more tunnels.

And dumped more and more dirt out of the hole.

See you next time in Norway!

"I" is for Insect

That is what Josiah's lessons will be on next week. I had ordered harvester ants and they arrived last night. Yah! We were all so excited. It's fascinating to watch them get busy and start moving the dirt to make their tunnels.
On this side of the ant farm is a fake "ant hill" that they climb up and into.

You can see the darker soil that they have already cleared out and put at the top of the hole.

This is the side where you can view the tunnels. Josiah was memorized.