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Confession time. My kids are terrible at geography. But you know what? That's okay. We've been
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killing it in U.S. history the past couple of years. But this year, we are cracking down on geography
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And guys, I don't think I'd actually realize how little we'd focused on geography until my kids
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had to take a pre-test in exploring countries and cultures the other day. It's bad
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I say that jokingly because we are not behind. It's okay. that my kids don't know where 200 different countries are on the map right now because we don't
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have to know all the things right away. We can learn them as we go. And this is our year that we're
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going to focus on it a bit more. That's the beauty of homeschooling. So when I was looking at my father's
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world exploring countries and cultures, I was told that there's not enough history. It's just a lot of
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geography. Good. That's what we need. In fact, I'll have to update you when we're done with the
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curriculum because they're going to have to take that same exact test again. And I'm thinking that
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they're going to do a little bit better. Now we are incorporating history still this year. We are
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finishing up with BJU Press Heritage Studies 5. I've mentioned to you guys, we started that last
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year and we didn't finish it. So we're rolling over this year and working that into our day
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along with exploring countries and cultures. But I am really excited to learn more geography this year and
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really get into this curriculum. So we're two weeks in. Let me show you what we've done
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so far and share with you the fun project that we're going to do today. two weeks in and we know all the continents and oceans We off to a great start Okay so I wanted to show you what we done so far for our first two weeks in and we know all the continents and oceans We off to a great start Okay so I wanted to just show you what we done so far for our first two weeks
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All right, if I could get to our first page. Okay, so week one, and I'm just going to focus on the geography right now, since that's what I'm talking about
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We have mainly been using the classroom atlas to learn about a lot of different types of maps. So that's where we have been starting
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This book right here is what we have been using, and we've just been kind of looking through and exploring a lot about maps, learning a lot about maps, a lot about coordinates, longitude latitude, basically just being able to identify different things on the maps, learning about physical maps, climate maps, environment maps, economic activity, population density
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So that is what we have done so far, just kind of given an overview of some different types of maps and exploring this Atlas a bit, which we haven't done very much of
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So we've also started digging into this book a little bit, done in introduction, and we're going to get more into this as we go
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And as we learn about the different countries and different cultures, talking about different religions and how we can spend time in prayer, what different people
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groups believe, what they know, how it relates to Christianity, and things like that. So
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these books are both going to be really great as we continue on with this curriculum. So then the
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second week, which we are just finishing up, so again, you'll see this teacher guide really
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breaks everything down. We talked about our different types of maps using the Atlas and just really
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explore those. And then today what we're going to be doing, this is just kind of a fun activity. Before we
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really get into the meat of some of the curriculum we going to be making a world cake So each of my kids are going to be making a cake and then they going to decorate it to look like the world Now I want to share with you guys We actually going to have a lot of cake here over the next two days because my older three kids all have the same birthday Only two of them are twins
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But every year I love to spend some time making a special cake for each one of them. So yesterday I got
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started on some of the pieces for my son's cake. I'm going to show it to you real quick
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and then this weekend I'm going to be working on baking the cakes and doing some more decorations
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So I've got a nice barrier here so that the dog can't get to it. But my son is going to do a Minecraft cake
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And I started working on the sword and some little details in fondant
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So I haven't done anything like this before. I think it is turning out okay
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It's just sitting out to harden. And we'll see hopefully the finished result will be something really cool. Okay
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So I'd love for you to hang out with me for just a little bit longer. my kids get into baking their cakes, I think they are going to want to have a little competition
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at the end to see who can decorate the best world cake. So stick around, watch us bake
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and be ready to help help me judge those at the end. All right guys, well thank you so much for watching. I hope that you enjoyed a peek at our first
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two weeks of my father's world exploring countries and cultures and for joining us on our cake baking
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adventure today. Don't forget to leave a comment below with which cake you think looks the best
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One, two or three. My kids are really excited to see your opinions. If you enjoyed this video
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