I think, and I could be wrong, my parents visited Belgium once when I was a kid. If I'm recalling this story correctly, they went to go visit one of my Dad's friends, and my grandparents stayed with my brother and me. The only story I remember from that trip had something to do … [Read more...]
Learn all about Australia with this great booklist
Growing up in the 80s Australia was the land down under and we knew about Crocodile Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter. And maybe they were walking on their heads because they were in the Southern hemisphere. It didn't take too long for me to figure out that idea was wrong, but it's … [Read more...]
Lithuania unit
Surprise, surprise, my library had pretty much nothing about Lithuania. I've discovered that most of the smaller European countries are hard to find information on. I can find some facts and a few videos, but I really miss the books we were able to find for some of the more … [Read more...]
Learn all about Albania!
The most amusing fact I found for Albania had to do with Mother Teresa. Did you know Mother Teresa was born in Albania? It's true, but since she was born the lines of Europe have been redrawn a few times, and her birthplace has moved into a few different countries over the many … [Read more...]
Russia booklist
We started our study of Russia because we'd been studying Italy and reading about Strega Nona and my kids wanted to know how Baba Yaga would match up against her. All of the Strega Nona books we read were by Tomi DePaola and so she was fairly nice in those. Baba Yaga isn't … [Read more...]
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