Tuesday, September 8, 2009

14 Cows for America

September's Book of the Month is, 14 Cows for America, by Carmen Agra Deedy. It tells the story of the Maasai tribe in Kenya, and the wonderful gift they gave America after hearing about the horrible tragedy of September 11th.
Ask your child to share the story with you!

After we finished the book we talked about tangible (touchable) and intangible (not touchable) things. Here are the lists that we came up with:

Once we thought of tangible and intangible things, we wrote beautiful metaphors that the book helped us with. In the book it says, "To Maasai, the cow is life." Leave a comment and show us the metaphor that you came up with!
We also talked about how different cultures have different things that are important to them. For example, the Maasai have cows and this is one of the most important things in their life. So, we took a trip around the world with Google Earth and learned about what are important in other cultures. We stopped in Argentina where they need shoes, Kenya where they love and respect cows, China who take great care of their water buffalo and the Philippines, where they take great pride in having a water pump. Click on the word "Google Earth" above to take your parents on the same trip that we went on today!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

this story that we did about our life was a really fun thing too do because we got too do the puzzle for about 5or6 or maybe 7 pages i dont know but this puzzle was really fun and my favorite part was when we got too make our own personal connection and my connection blewa big hole in my i mean a really big hole IN MY HEARTthank you for the fun stuff we done and cant wait too see what we do tomorrow from jacobbonnichsen

Anonymous said...

this had the best illastratinos because of the twin towers in that little boys eye from jacob bonnichsen