This week's mini social studies unit for letter M is all about Mexico. This is related to my family already, as I married into a 100% Mexican family, so my children are 1/2 Mexican. I try to teach them some Spanish words, they can listen and understand my in-law's when they speak to them in Spanish, and we introduce them to foods that my mother in-law cooks. My 20 month old particularly likes potato taquitos. My almost 4 year old can count to 10 in Spanish and knows some basic words such Read more [...] Mexico: The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred
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This week's mini social studies unit for letter M is all about Mexico. This is related to my family already, as I married into a 100% Mexican family, so my children are 1/2 Mexican. I try to teach them some Spanish words, they can listen and understand my in-law's when they speak to them in Spanish, and we introduce them to foods that my mother in-law cooks. My 20 month old particularly likes potato taquitos. My almost 4 year old can count to 10 in Spanish and knows some basic words such Read more [...] 
To finish up last week's Letter I, Esmeralda (3.5 years old) and I did a very tiny mini-unit on Italy for social studies. This mini-unit consists of a little geography, an Italian folklore, and a kitchen project making and baking bread! I have a list at the end of ways to expand this unit if you want to do more as well.
Geography: First we looked for a blank map of Italy to color. We found the blank map here. Esmeralda absolutely loved coloring Italy's map. Instead of just scribbling it 
Once a week, I like to do a very small, very basic mini social studies unit with Esmeralda (3.5 years old). For letter G, I thought we could take a small look at Greece. I checked a book out from the library called The Orphan: A Cinderella Story from Greece by Anthony Manna and Christodoula Mitakidou, illustrated by Giselle Potter. To be honest, I think I prefer this story over the traditional Cinderella story that is so popular.
In this story, the girl's mother would bathe her and brush