The Colorado Adventure

Has been popping up all over the house. Sampson looks kind of irritated here.

Here, I think he’s just plain pissed at me!

Nemo was swimming all over the place, but not exactly in the right spot, darn it!

Here’s Joel’s version of Sweetness (Stephen Colbert’s gun.)

Mr. Pumpkin meet Mr. Dell.

My computer couldn’t figure out where to put the moustache so it would show up.

Tree frog looks great with a ’stache, don’t you think?

Who know where that wacky fake moustache will pop up next?!

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Today we were doing the people of the world (or world neighbors) badge. We split it up into 2 meetings. Today we talked about people who lived in Colorado at first. Of course the kids said Native Americans and we listed off the Colorado tribes: Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Pueblo, Shoshone and Ute. The name of the street in front of the library that we meet at is named Arapaho(e), so I pointed that out. We talked about the Spanish, Chinese and the westward movement that brought all kinds of people to Colorado.

We learned how to say ‘Hi’ and ‘Goodbye’ in Chinese, Arapaho, and Spanish. Hannah has been walking around all day saying, ‘Mee how’, ok so it’s really ‘Ni Hao’, but it’s cute.

We brought food from other countries and ate it while we read the book What the World Eats.

I think it’s the same as Hungry Planet, but this one gives you the amount in dollars that the food costs and breaks the food into categories.

The kids thought it was fun to flip back and forth between the American family that spent $371 a week on food to the Chinese family that spent $32 a week on food. We compared the American to the Indian, Mexican and Chinese families in the book. We looked at how much fruit and veggies they bought, sodas and eating out.

The rural Chinese family didn’t eat out at all, the city Chinese family ate out a little, the Indian family ate out once and fed 4 people at a restaurant for $2.88!

Our food was varied we had chips and salsa, Chile lime crackers, pineapple drink, Indian fry bread, cous cous, dumplings, cream puffs, kuchen, noodles, cookies and crackers.

Next we talked about homes around the world. I asked the kids if everyone lived in a home and we talked about homelessness. We talked about what we can do for the homeless, like the coat drive we’re having, food donations and the homeless bags that our HS group made to hand out. Then we read the book Homes Around the World ABC and saw homes on boats, in apartments, wagons, huts, dugouts, palaces, villas and more.

Next we went through books on costumes of the countries of Spain, Mexico, the US and China.

I had paper girl cutout figures that the girls all grabbed and started decorating. We had Chinese dolls, Swedish dolls, Russian, Indian, Native American and more.

I knew they’d like the doll dress up craft so I made that the last thing we did. I forgot my radio so we didn’t hear any cultural music, but my friend will pick that up on the next meeting. Bethany and I plan to share a dance that we learned in Worship dance too, it’s an Israeli folk dance called the grapevine.

It was a good day, James is off in Houston and we’ll be going to Sand dune National park tomorrow for a road trip fun day.

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