Buon giorno and welcome to our Expedition Earth week on Italy! As a country near and dear to my heart this week, we had a great time, and I even learned some new things about Italy too!

Of course we started off our week finding Italy on the map and stamping our passports with the Italian flag:

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Here are some of the things we covered this week:

  • Located Italy on the map and completed our mapping worksheet
  • Learned about the Italian flag
  • How to say “Hello” & “Thank you” in Italian – Ciao, Grazie
  • Prayed for the Italian people
  • Learned a song in Italian 
  • Completed a lapbook activity
  • Learned Roman Numerals
  • Learned about and classified 6 animals of Italy
  • Learn a little about Italian Opera
  • Vocabulary: Geography from A-Z: Volcano
  • Learned about Mt Vesuvius and made a volcano
  • Learn about the 5th Wonder of the World: The Roman Colosseum and made a model out of Foam Bricks.
  • Learn about the Leaning Tower of Piza and made a model
  • Learned about Michelangelo and painted upside down under a table
  • Made homemade spaghetti & meatballs with gelato for dessert!

We worked on our mapping worksheet, learning the capital, population, religion, language, and major landforms of Italy.

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We learned about the Roman Colosseum and Leaning Tower of Pisa then tried to make our own using FloraCraft Bricks.

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We learned about the Italian flag, and even found a few to wave.

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We learned about Mt Vesuvius and made our own volcano explosion in the kitchen with the help of Nana.

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Then Nana sat and showed us pictures from when my grandparents went to Italy years ago. It was cool to see the things we were studying in the album!

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Since it snowed that week, my son took the initiative and made his own version of Mt Vesuvius out of snow:

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Of course we learned about animals found in Italy and added them to our ever growing animal wall. I’m going to have to add more room as I slightly underestimated the amount of animals we had!

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We also learned about Roman Numerals.

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Thanks for joining our week on Italy, next we’re on to Greece!

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