So in this post, I’m sharing how we worked on understanding the history of North America through famous landmarks, figures and playsets that depict the life of the early people of North America.
Materials I prepared:
- Landmarks of North America booklet
- Safari Supertoob USA
- Safari Toob Around the World Landmarks
- North American in a Nutshell
Mavi was particularly fascinated with the Liberty Bell. So we went beyond the booklet and read some more history books to learn more about the independence of the United States.
On the other hand, Vito was more interested in the bald eagle. There’s something about animals that little ones just love!
Mavi wanted to see everything in the toob in real life (LOL), especially Mount Rushmore. He liked the idea of faces carved on a mountain. He memorised the names of the presidents whose faces were carved on the hill, and then he remembered George Washington. “The bridge connecting NYC and Jersey was named after him, Mom”. He recalled that bridge! (We were staying in NJ)
Once we talked about the landmarks (including the Chichen Itza in Mexico), we proceeded to work the timeline cards of North American history. You can get these through our North America in a Nutshell. He was surprised to learn that Europeans discovered North America and that primarily they were inhabited by North American Indians (US) and Mayans in Mexico until Christopher Columbus arrived.
The next day, we set up our Playmobil Native Americans and Playmobil Wagon as a museum similar to the Museum of Natural History in NYC. Here Mavi placed the history cards and displayed the wild west and Native American people.
Here’s our Native American tribe leader. We read about how these people moved from place to place and fought for their land.
The symbolism of totem poles and the home of the Native Americans, we discussed how different they are from the homes we have now.
Here’s a wagon, one of the iconic representations of the wild west!
Vito loves this!
And that’s all for the history! It was great and meaningful!
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