Slovakia Unit

For whatever reason, I think the name Slovakia is fun to say. It’s an interesting word and if you didn’t know it, it’s also an interesting country. That’s what I learned in our Slovakia Unit when we learned about it for our geography lessons. Let’s see what our Slovakia unit had to say.

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Slovakia Unit resources

Okay, Slovakia being a less prominent country in most history lessons, it doesn’t get any particular books in my library, so let’s talk about what I found for cool things on Slovakia.

• Cool Kids Facts About Slovakia
• 7 Interesting Facts about Slovakia– many pretty pictures
• Cool things about Slovakia– this post is totally what made me change the picture I wanted to use for Slovakia, I’d forgotten about the cool clock
• 10 Interesting Slovakia Facts
• 10 more facts

But, our primary resource is Geography Now, which thankfully came out not too long before we studied the country!

And here is the Flag Friday episode because I love learning about flags.

Slovakia Unit Recipe: Halsuki

I like a recipe that only requires a few ingredients, and the Halsuki recipe looked promising.

All in all, it wasn’t a super popular dish. There are many versions of this that we’ve liked more.

Halsuki ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 head of green cabbage chopped
• 1 onion chopped
• 8 ounces pancetta
• 1 pound egg noodles
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 5 ounces plain goat cheese crumbled

I will say this is a bit like some of the recipes I really enjoy elsewhere.

Let’s make this!

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Once it’s melted add the onion and cabbage and cook them until sautéed. Add the pancetta and cook another 7 minutes.
2. While that is cooking bring a pot of salted water to boil. Cook the egg noodles according to package directions, I cook them around 6 minutes.
3. Add drained noodles to cabbage mixture and mix in the black pepper. Add the goat cheese on top then mix it in until everything is all melted together.

It’s super simple and easy, but it also wasn’t anything anyone was saying, “I super love this meal.” We already have a simple cheese sauce recipe I can make without looking at the recipe. Though I should add about 3/4 less cheese than I do because I always end up making the sauce too thick.

Slovak Halsuki

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The Slovak Halsuki is an interesting recipe for our Slovakia unit and is an easy weeknight recipe.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 head of green cabbage chopped
• 1 onion chopped
• 8 ounces pancetta
• 1 pound egg noodles
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 5 ounces plain goat cheese crumbled

Instructions

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Once it’s melted add the onion and cabbage and cook them until sautéed. Add the pancetta and cook another 7 minutes.
2. While that is cooking bring a pot of salted water to boil. Cook the egg noodles according to package directions, I cook them around 6 minutes.
3. Add drained noodles to cabbage mixture and mix in the black pepper. Add the goat cheese on top then mix it in until everything is all melted together.

Moving on to our Slovakia notebooking pages

Slovakia Unit: notebooking pages

We hit our Slovakia unit as we were in our made dash through the last of Europe, so the countries all mixed together.

• They have a 46 letter alphabet, imagine having to learn almost double the letters when learning to read
• A ground squirrel park! I want to go!
• They still have hidden war bunkers, this is not too surprising given the area it’s in
• The embassy has a montly meetup with Slovenia to exchange mislabeled mail!
• Countess Bathory is from here!!!!! I just found out this as I was writing the post, she’s a character in a book series I read, depending on who you ask she is the female serial killer with the largest body count, OR she’s a wrongly accused woman because she was a woman in power (there was a whole discussion of it in the book I read, it was interesting)

OH and this clock, this clock is so cool looking.

More learning fun completely unrelated to geography

Let’s see what I can come up with.

via GIPHY

All right, I’ve found some!

• Can you design a bridge to cross the oobleck ocean?
• Abraham Lincoln lesson
• Invisible ink project
• Pollyanna book club
• Civil War unit

“Gothic Chapel on Liptovska Mara in the Morning Light ~ Liptov, Slovakia” by Martin Sojka .. www.VisualEscap.es is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

“Stará Bystrica Astronomical Clock.” by young shanahan is licensed under CC BY 2.0.