As of this week, we have decided to add an activity to Homeschool and our family experience. We will be learning and eating our way around the world.
I think it’s important for people to know about countries and cultures other than their own, so we’ve decided to broaden our horizons. Since we are homeschooling, every single week our sons will be given the responsibility of picking out a country from around the globe for the following week. (That will give me time to look up recipes and see if I need to find special spices, etc.)
The week we study that country we’ll open up our “Operation World” book and learn about how to pray for the people in that country. We’ll get on the internet and look up interesting things about that country and its culture(s). We’ll visit the library and see if we can find stories about the people of that country. We’ll see if the travel channel has any shows about that location. And, finally, we will look up recipes and each week make food that will give us a sense of what the people in that culture may eat. I’ll try to remember to take pictures for you all!
Every member of our family will participate and learn together. Each week, I’ll write and let you know about our “travels” around the world and our kids’ responses to the food and the things that they learn.
This week I chose the location because it was simple to buy the food from the grocery store. (We’re visiting Thailand and tonight we had Pad Thai for dinner. The boys thought it was very good.) However, starting next week, the kids will get to choose where we “travel”.
Care to join us and do something similar in your home? We’d enjoy hearing about it.
Please share this and tell everyone you know. We would love to have people come to our blog to make comments and contribute suggestions and ideas, places to “travel”, foods to try, tidbits of information on different cultures. If you’re from a culture other than North America or have visited places around the world and have a favorite cuisine or country, we’d love to hear real life information about your culture or the culture you visited! I’ll be posting our “travel” blog every Friday starting next week.
