Three weeks ago, we rowed "The Giraffe That Walked To Paris". I'm scrambling to post what we did for the past few weeks! This book gave us the opportunity to learn so many new vocabulary words including "Pasha" (Egypt's high military official. This is also based on true events, which made things even more interesting for the kids. I printed out a few templates from Homeschool Share and we constructed the mini book together. In addition to reading the book, they completed these small assignments throughout the week. Here's what we came up with: The kids wrote some vocabulary words from the book and wrote the definitions. They also practiced their writing and did some copywork from a sentence in the book: I drew the cover The kids wanted to draw their own giraffes and my daughter wanted to write a story under hers. My son also wrote a small sentence to practice his penmanship. Our geography lesson was on Egypt, Mediterranean Se...