Traveling to Europe a Page at a Time

Although we're having a long break from our schooling with CC, I'm not about to let the kids have a 5 week break from school work. I decided we'd spend the next few weeks learning more about other countries. Ryan loves the show "The Amazing Race". So we choose to use the various stops that the contestants make as the basis for our studies in geography.
For the season that we are following they first stop in England.
Ryan chooses to study England and gave us a great oral report. I also had them learn about the church's history in their country of choice too.

Since we were "traveling in England/Europe", the kids wanted to branch out and learn about other countries in Europe too.
Cailin choose France. For fun I had the kids each make one food item from their country.
There was so much good food to make in the french cookbook, Cailin and I choose to make an entire meal....

...Quiche Lorraine...

Chocolate mousse-- this didn't turn out so well, we messed up the amount of unflavored gelatin, so it turned into chocolate concrete jello--that's not very appetizing!

Bri enjoying the homemade french baguettes

Connor took us on a "trip" to Portugal and Spain.

Paella is Spain's national dish....and it sure was yummy!

He helped me make Carmel flan for dessert, yet nobody liked it.

Delaney guided us to the Scandinavian peninsula for a visit to Sweden. Her yummy dinner consisted of Swedish meatballs, boiled potatoes, cucumber salad and rice pudding with raspberry topping for dessert. While nobody enjoyed the desserts from the other countries they all loved this one!

We're still waiting to go on our trip to Ireland, courtesy of Barry....then it's on to Africa!