On Safari in Kenya ~ Our Lesson Plans

Our travels to the Eastern coast of Africa started with Kenya. We learned all about the Great Rift Valley and the heights of Mt. Kilimanjaro, figured out how to sing the chorus of Jesus Loves Me in Swahili, drew lots of fun pictures of safari animals, put together a fun diorama of a savannah, read some great books together, and visited some great websites to learn more about the great country.

Week 1 Layout

Monday

• Introduce East Africa song about Kenya from Geography Songs
• Use atlas and globe to locate Kenya
• Talked about the size of Kenya 
• Independent reading ~ pick a book from the shelf to read

Tuesday

• Review geography song
• Learned {and reviewed} some geography terms: lake and valley, highlands, lowlands, equator,  and savannah
• Learned about the Great Rift Valley and Mt. Kenya
• Learned about the flag of Kenya using our notebooking page

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Wednesday

• Review geography song
• Talked about the climate of Kenya ~ on both sides of the equator, wet and dry seasons, snow on top of Mt. Kenya
• Visited National Geographic for Kids: Kenya site
• Independent reading

Thursday
• Review geography song
• Tried to sing Jesus Loves Me in Swahili ~ well, the chorus at least!

Yes, Jesus loves me. Yesu amipenda
Yay-soo ah-nee pen-dah [3x]
The Bible tells me so. Biblia ani sema
Bee-blee-ah ah-nee she-mah

• Looked at Kenya’s currency
• Story from Around the World in 80 Tales ~ The Rabbit’s Tale
• Reading together book on Kenya {from our bookshelf}

Week 2 Layout

Monday

• Review geography song
• Independent reading {for McKenna all week ~ Lions at Lunchtime}
• Completed our mapping activity of Africa

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Tuesday

• Review geography song
• Took a little tour via the Time for Kids: Kenya site
• Independent reading

Wednesday
• Review geography song
• Used Draw Write Now to draw a lion and a cheetah
• Learned about the baobab tree ~ the one that looks like it is planted upside down!
• Independent reading

Thursday
• Review geography song
• Laurianna worked on a fun diorama project of a savannah. We found some great 3D animal punch outs that she put together and then made up a ‘habitat’ for them

• Added our notebooking pages to our binder and stamped our passports!

Resources and Websites

• National Geographic for Kids: Kenya site
• Time for Kids: Kenya
• Banknotes of Kenya
• World Factbook: Kenya
• Homeschool Share: Masai and I lapbook
• Mission Friends: Kenya
• Scholastic Global Trek ~ Kenya
• Kid’s Africa
• PBS Kids ~ Africa for Kids
• Kids 4 Kenya
• Kids Can Travel

Books We Used