Homeschool Weekly Wrap Up - Russia week 1

The last Japan activity we did was Haiku writing.  After that, we turned our attention to Russia!

We made Faberge eggs from our Little Passports packet

and added them to our binders.

Adding the Russian flag (adopted in 1991) to our passports.

The Little Passports "treat" this month was a sheet of temporary tattoos.  Eli chose the flag and Jack chose the bear.  Which led to me singing, Waltzing With Bears

Hannah, working on her homework.  

They've got her writing 3 sentences about a topic now.

Her sentences are... "original." 

We watched a documentary on Netflix called Rasputin:  The Mad Monk.  Note to self, you might want to preview the next documentary you show the kids!  Yikes.  It was, er, graphic about his personal life.  But we did catch a glimpse of St. Basil's cathedral in the footage, which was perfect because we watched it the same day Brianna built a model of  St. Basil's.

Doing a word search.  

We also watched a documentary about Russian painters, and are planning to view another about the Russian ballet.  

I got out some genealogy documents and was able to show the kids our German ancestors who immigrated from Odessa when Ukraine was a part of Russia.  I love that even as far back as Catherine the Great, our family has a history of adoption.