I decided to take a brief break from our study of Europe in our geography lesson and hop over for a Philippines country study because I was given a delightful book for the Philippines.
Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here and I’m updating this post to add in a bit more to let you have some more to do with this unit beyond just the book, and make it a bit more in line with the rest of my geography units.
So, let’s do some geography.
Philippines Unit resources
Okay, when we did this unit all those years ago, we only used the book I got.
I talk about the book all throughout, so I won’t bother talking about it here.
Let’s go to some websites:
- Nat Geo Kids Philippines
- Information from the Philippines Consulate General
- 30 fun facts about the Philippines
Okay, I’d look for more, but my head is hurting, and my computer is being stupid, so I’m going to move on to sharing the videos.
And then, here is the Flag Friday video.
(Disclosure: I was given a copy of All About the Philippines*
Now to the Philippines Country Study
I got my book, All About the Philippines*, and fell in love with it. It has everything I want in a geography book, and what I usually take several books to find: a little bit about the country’s geography and government, a little bit of history, a little bit of their culture and traditions, some food suggestions, and some stories from the country. AND it had some games they play. It usually takes me 10 books to get all of that information together. The only thing it didn’t have is population and size, that we found on Google.
The kids and I read the book together (actually we read parts because Superman was sick, and I hit the highlights, be praying he was diagnosed with pneumonia on Wednesday, which explains why he felt so bad on Monday when we did this).
As we read we put together our notebooking pages. We learned all about the history of the Philippines, and their flag (which I found fascinating).
We learned about the different types of people living in the Philippines, and all of the languages spoken there.
And we compared the three children who are telling the story. How are they the same, and how are they different? It’s really fascinating, did you know the Philippines has over 100 language types spoken there? And most people are fluent in at least two languages, if not three?
And the climate, and particular geographic features. With sick kids I couldn’t do the cool projects I thought of, but I’ll link to my inspiration ideas:
We didn’t finish our Philippines country study as much as I would have liked because Superman had to lie down, so I don’t have a finished copy of our notebook to show you, but I’ve included the Philippines country study printable to go along with it.
Random bit, completely unrelated to our Philippines country study
As I was looking at the back of the book I discovered they have several more books in this series: All About China*
- Michol Sanchez, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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