My kids and I enjoy looking at dates in history and seeing how we can apply those events to what we’re doing on a day-to-day basis. It’s fun to celebrate holidays both big and small, and to commemorate people who contributed in some way to who we are, but are often not remembered.
I am starting a new series here on Families.com for anyone who would like to follow us throughout the year and mark those special (and sometimes downright weird) events. I will also share ideas for how to make those days special.
I don’t imagine too many people will be holding homeschool for the remainder of this week, but if you are, or would like to roll the ideas over to next week, here you go:
November 24th – in addition to being Thanksgiving this year, November 24th is also the birthday of Carlo Collodi, the inventor of the puppet Pinocchio. Carlo was born in Italy in 1826. Ideas for commemorating this day – study a map of Italy and learn its shape, location, and capital city. Eat Italian food for lunch or dinner (or both!). Pull out all your craft supplies and make puppets, then put on a puppet show.
November 25th – on this day in 1960, Scottish Parliament met to discuss protecting the mythical Loch Ness Monster. Some people in the area had decided to drop bombs in Loch Ness to flush out the monster, and Parliament decided to intervene. Ideas for this day – draw pictures of the Loch Ness Monster. Use your imagination – what do you think it looks like? Discuss other mythical beings and make up stories about them to tell each other. Study a map of Scotland and find Loch Ness.
November 26th – in 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter found the tomb of King Tut. Ideas for this day – study a map of Egypt and locate the Valley of the Kings, where the tomb was located. Click here to take a virtual tour of the tomb. Talk about what archaeologists do and discuss what you would like to search for if you were an archaeologist.
That’s all for the rest of the week – join me again on Monday morning as we take a look at the upcoming week.
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