Germany!

We finished up our tour of Europe with a trip to Germany the past couple weeks.  While the younger two kids enjoy doing some of our studies and crafts in each country, they still beg to do their own school everyday too.  We spent the past two weeks learning letters K and L.  Do a dot markers are one of Peanut's favorite things to do!

Even though there are many castles through out all of Europe, we focused on them during our stay in Germany.  I think this was Buddy's favorite part and he spent quite a bit of time learning how to draw them and using anything he could find to construct them.

We also learned that Germans often use beeswax clay for modeling and art.  I couldn't find any beeswax clay, but the kids really enjoyed using modeling clay instead of their usual play-dough to create some beautiful works of art.

In each country that we study we also learn about a different habitat in nature.  This time we studied rivers, lakes, and ponds.  We learned about a catfish that can live for a few hours out of water.  If it's pond dries up, it wiggles itself around in the mud looking for more water and the kids had a great time pretending they were wiggling in the mud.

We also had fun trying to see if we could get a paperclip to float on water the same way that water skaters do.

And of course, our favorite part is always trying some new food!  Since Germany is well-known for it's sausages, we decided to try making some of our own.  The kids loved squishing all the ingredients together, but had a hard time waiting patiently for the LONG process!

On our final day, we tried some bratwurst with sauerkraut.  The kids loved the meat, not so much the cabbage. :)

 And Sweetie made some Kirsch-Streuselkuchen for us for dessert!

Next week we will be headed to Africa!  Auf wiedersehen!

Blessings,