We packed up all of our many beautiful Chilean artifacts provided by Lua Siegel and asked the children what they recalled about our unit on Chile. This is what they had to say:
Raine - the collapsed mine and the 33 miners emerging safely
Alleck - the clock made of copper and lapis lazuli
Alleck - the blue-painted porcelain dove decorated with painted feathers
Ezra - the money from Chile in the drawer of the wicker cabinet
Doni - the guanacos in the mountains and the penguins in the polar regions
Eliason - how the Mapuches and the Spaniards divided territory
Raine - the Mapuches chased away the Spanish
Madison - the Spanish captured Lautaro, but he escaped
Hazel - the lapis necklace
Raine - the desert is very hot
Clare - the desert animals look for food at night
Eliason - the miners were trapped under the desert
Shealyn - it was hot underground for the miners
Chile was certainly a very rich unit. Sweden promises to be wonderful, too, although we lack artifacts to show the kids. We will probably emphasize Sweden's Viking history, their current social structure, the indigenous Sami people of the north and the glories of snow, snow, snow. We are already counting to ten in Swedish, singing a song in Swedish that is all about how frogs have no ears nor tails and we are singing a beautiful song in English for Santa Lucia Day. The relevant art activities that Leslie has created for us will keep the classroom feeling festive right up to Winter Break!
Best regards,
Doni
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