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Yesterday was our homeschool groups annual Heritage Day. This was our first year doing it so I wasn't too sure what we should make. Chantelle chose to do Poland, mostly because she is part Polish on her father's side. This is what her progect looked like:

We got some books on Poland at the library and I made up some word searches and crossword puzzles to pass out to the other kids at the Heritage Day. I even got a unit study from edHelper that got Chantelle started. (You have to be a member to get the unit studies. I signed up to access everything for one year and it cost me only 40.00)

Silly me, I forgot to bring my camera to the actual event, so we took pictures today at home. I did have someone take a picture of Chantelle's project atthe event, but it will be a few days before I get it.

Some of the other kids projects were wonderful. There was this huge set up on the American Indians complete with prarie grass, one on Guana, Egypt, and Italy. Two kids even made up their own countries. It was so nice to see their imaginations at work to create these countries complete with maps, flags and even how life is on the country.

My most favorite was the one on Israel. The mom had gone there and I spent some time looking at her photo album. She even had familiar children's books written in Hebrew. Matt was so excited to see Goodnight Moon and I thought it was funny to see the Mr. and Miss books I grew up with in Hewbrew. Matt got a kick out of the fact that you read the books from back to front and right to left, opposite of what we do. 

At the end, all the children who participated received a Certificate of Achievement.

I am all ready thinking about what the kids can do next year. Both will be participating next year. Only Chantelle did it this year.