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Showing posts with label south africa. Show all posts
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Friday, January 9, 2015

Beverley Naidoo, South Africa & Tapestry of Grace

What happens when you move? You sort. And sort. And sort. I sorted through things as we packed, getting rid of what we no longer need, and now I'm sorting through things as I unpack!
I came across a book today while unpacking my school room that I thought I could add to my my children's reading list this year. We are doing Year 4 of Tapestry of Grace, which covers the time period from 1900 to the Present. The book is Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo. As I researched to find the time setting for this book, I found that she's written several other highly recommended books. I thought I would share, first of all, so that I don't forget about them! Secondly, I thought someone else might find it useful.
Please keep in mind, other than Journey to Jo'burg, I haven't previewed the books and plan to preview them before letting my children read them.

Out of Bounds, TOG Y4, Units 3-4, 1950-2000
Recommended for Grades 6 and up. (Also available on Kindle)



Journey to Jo'burg, TOG Y4, Wk 31 - 1985 (This is when the book was first published)
Recommended for Grades 6 and up.


Chain of Fire, TOG Y4, Wk 32 - 1986 (This is when the book was first published) (Out of Print)
Sequel to Journey to Jo'burg


No Turning Back, TOG Y4, Wk 33 or 34
Recommended for Grades 4 and up. (Also available on Kindle)



There is also the sweetest children's book! I am going to have to purchase this one! I just fell in love with the preview on Amazon.

S is for South Africa

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Boer versus Briton 1880-1902

I am in the process of adding South African history to our homeschool studies, integrating it with Tapestry of Grace. The Boer versus Briton (Anglo Boer War) section of All About South Africa would fit into TOG Y4.


Books to look for:
Ring Around the Moon by Maretha Maartens
Place Among the Stones by Jenny Seed
The Policeman's Button by Jenny Seed
The Spy Hill by Jenny Seed

Links:
Photographic Record of the Anglo Boer War
Anglo Boer War website

Field Trips:
Battlefields
"Luthuli Farewell Square is named in honour of early trader Lieutenant Francis Farewell and liberation struggle leader Albert Luthuli. Monuments here include statues in honour of Queen Victoria, a Boer War memorial, a Cenotaph honouring the fallen in both World Wars among other memoria. The square is opposite the eThekwini (formerly Durban) City Hall." (As a side note, eThekwini City Hall was built in 1903, so also a great visit for this time period.)
Battle of Magersfontein - Kimberly
Kruger House Museum - Pretoria

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Caramel Rooibos Tart



Cake:
4 extra large eggs
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup strong cold rooibos tea
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp table salts
2 tsp baking powder
2 Tbsp melted butter

Syrup:
2 3/4 C boiling water
1 1/3 C sugar
2 rooibos tea bags
2 tsp vanilla essence

Topping:

1 can nestle treat filling and caramel topping filling (dulche de leche) (google how to make your own from sweetened condensed milk)
1 C fresh cream
white chocolate grated – dream Cadbury bar
preheat oven to 180°, grease a 24 x 32cm oven dish

Cake
beat eggs and sugar
add rooibos and vanilla
sift in dry ingredients and fold in.
stir in melted butter
turn into dish and bake for 40 min

Syrup
Combine boiling water and sugar into saucepan. Add rooibos bags – heat until sugar
dissolves. Simmer for 5 mins, remove from heat, remove bags and add vanilla. Pour
over cake as it comes out of oven and leave to cool.

Topping
Beat nestle treat and cream together
Spread over cooled cake
Top with white chocolate curls

Friday, November 15, 2013

Slow Cooker Sugar Bean Curry

Ingredients:
+/- 1/4 Cup Oil
1-2 Points Star Anise
1 Cinnamon Stick
1 Bay Leaf
3 Tbsp Curry Powder, more or less, season to taste (I use Osman's Taj Mahal Extra Special Hot Curry Powder)
1/2 Onion, chopped
1 Tomato, chopped
500 g (about 1 lb.) Sugar Beans, dried (like Pinto Beans)
3-4 Potatoes, cut into large chunks
*can also add chilli powder (not Mexican chili powder, but ground chillies) to add heat

Heat oil in pot on stove, enough to cover the bottom of the pot. Add spices and onions. Cook until onions are transparent. Rinse beans and pick out any bad/broken pieces. Add to slow cooker with 5 cups hot water. Add spice/onion mix, tomato and potatoes. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours and then switch to low and cook another 2 hours.

Serving Suggestion:
Serve with a hollowed out section of bread, which is know as bunny chow. Could also be served with roti.

*I have also used this recipe to make Chicken Curry - instead of adding beans and hot water, add 4 frozen chicken breasts. Cook about 6 hours on low, until chicken is cooked through. Use a wooden spoon to break chicken into smaller pieces, so it goes further.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Mya's School

Through prayer and consideration, I decided to start Little Footprints on our Land when we returned from our time away in Joburg. I love this preschool curriculum based on African children's stories! We also added in Math U See. So we are now doing a combination of the following:


Little Footprints on Our Land
Math U See Alpha
Teach Your Child to Read in Just Ten Minutes a Day
ABC Fun & 1-2-3
Letter of the Week
Handwriting Without Tears

Thursday, September 12, 2013

People of the Interior

The People of the Interior section of All About South Africa (South African History) would fit into Tapestry of Grace Y1.

Before I started with Tapestry of Grace, a friend and I did some homeschool unit studies on South Africa with our 6 children. Now that I am using TOG, I would do one of two things. First, South Africa has 40 weeks in their school year, while TOG only does 36, so I could take a week away from TOG here and there and add in a week of SA History. But if my year is too busy, I would just take the time to read the section in All About South Africa and add one of the books to read, if I have it.

Ideas to Incorporate:
  • Learn some Tswana
  • Make South African flag from beads
  • Make Samp and Beans
  • Make Ndebele homes
  • Mark people groups on wall map





Links:
Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za, and don't forget to check your local library!

The Ndebele Art & Culture by Aubrey Elliot
Abantu by Martin West and Jean Morris

The Nguni Speakers

The Nguni Speakers section of All About South Africa (South African History) would fit into Tapestry of Grace Y1.

Before I started with Tapestry of Grace, a friend and I did some homeschool unit studies on South Africa with our 6 children. Now that I am using TOG, I would do one of two things. First, South Africa has 40 weeks in their school year, while TOG only does 36, so I could take a week away from TOG here and there and add in a week of SA History. But if my year is too busy, I would just take the time to read the section in All About South Africa and add one of the books to read, if I have it.

Ideas to Incorporate:
  • Make a Zulu shield out of fake fur and wooden skewers
  • Make an African Drum
  • Make Mealie Meal Bread (see recipe below) or Pap, and serve with chicken and pumpkin
  • Learn about Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi
  • Learn about Nguni cattle
  • Study the Iron Age
  • Place a picture of each of the people groups on the appropriate place on a South African map
  • Talk about the roles of women and men in the Nguni culture. Have children dramatize.
Field Trip:
Lesedi Cultural Village (Gauteng)
Guests are divided into smaller groups and taken on a guided tour of our five homesteads: Zulu, Xhosa, Basotho, Ndebele and Pedi

Recipe:

Early South Africans were mostly hunter-gatherers. They depended on foods such as tortoises, crayfish, coconuts, and squash to survive. The practice of modern agriculture was introduced by the Bantu, natives of northern Africa. They taught inhabitants to grow vegetables such as corn ("mealies"), squash, and sweet potatoes.

It is customary for children to eat from the same dish, usually a big basin. This derives from a "share what you have" belief which is part of ubuntu (humane) philosophy.

Mealie Meal Bread (I got this recipe years ago - not sure where I got it from!)

1 ½ cups Milk
2 cups Mealie Meal
1 tsp Salt 
4 tbsp Butter (or Margarine) 
3 Eggs, beaten 
2 tsp Baking Powder 

Heat 1 cup of the milk and then blend the other ½ cup of milk together with the mealie meal. Then add the mealie meal, salt and butter to the cup of hot milk and mix well. Cool and then add the beaten eggs and baking powder. Blend well and turn in to a greased loaf tin. Bake at 180’C/350’F/Gas Mark 4 for 30 to 40 minutes.


Links:
Iron Age 
Traditional African Clothing
African Jewelry
Swazi
African Farmers

Field Trips:
Lesedi Cultural Village (Gauteng)





Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za, and don't forget your local library!

Zulu Traditions and Cultures by Aubrey Elliot
The Xhosa and their Traditional Way of Life by Aubrey Elliot
Looking at the Zulu by Roger and Pat de la Harpe
Looking at the Xhosa by Roger and Pat de la Harpe
The Abundant Herds: A Celebration of the Nguni Cattle of the Zulu People by Leigh Voigt


The San and the KhoiKhoi

The San and the KhoiKhoi section of All About South Africa (South African History) would fit into Tapestry of Grace Y1.

Before I started with Tapestry of Grace, a friend and I did some homeschool unit studies on South Africa with our 6 children. Now that I am using TOG, I would do one of two things. First, South Africa has 40 weeks in their school year, while TOG only does 36, so I could take a week away from TOG here and there and add in a week of SA History. But if my year is too busy, I would just take the time to read the section in All About South Africa and add one of the books to read, if I have it.


Ideas to Incorporate:
  • Read the section on San and the KhoiKhoi
  • Learn about nomads.
  • When reading the sections on KhoiKhoi Houses, The Strandlopers, Hottentots Holland Mountains and The KhoiKhoi are dispossessed, locate the areas referred to and mark one of them on a map of South Africa with a picture of a KhoiKhoi hunter.
  • Read creation account from Genesis and make a creation wheel.
  • Re-create a miniature model of a Khoi home with plaster of paris and brown paint.
  • Learn about and practice rock art.
  • Study about Ostrich.
  • Have ostrich steaks or game for dinner.  Make a fire and sit around it and eat.
  • Make a San hut with long grass.
  • Locate the Kalahari on the South African map and mark it with a picture of a praying mantis. 
  • Study the praying mantis.
  • Make a reed flute

Links:

South Africa History Online - Arrival of KhoiKhoi
Creation Wheel
Bushmen
San Bushmen
Praying Mantis

Field Trips:

Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History (Gauteng)

The National Cultural History Museum explores South Africa’s cultural diversity in various permanent and temporary exhibitions. Exhibitions include rock paintings and engravings of the San people; thousand year old Iron Age figurines from Schroda in the Limpopo Province (described as "the best known artifacts indicating ritual behaviour in the Early Iron Age"); the Art Gallery presents an overview of South African culture through time, using cultural objects, crafts, sculpture and paintings and an exhibition on Marabastad is a true example of a cosmopolitan and fully integrated rainbow nation before apartheid. Visit our new shop. 





Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za

The Far-away Valley by Jenny Seed
Men of Men by Candy Malherbe
These Small People by Candy Malherbe
The New Fire by Jenny Seed
The Cave by Peter Slingsby
Nama Kwa’s Garden by Mary Clanahan
Come Over to my House by Theo Leisig

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Traditional African Crafts

I am in the process of adding South African history to our homeschool studies, integrating it with Tapestry of Grace. Here are links to the books I have found from the list provided for this section in an old edition of All About South Africa:

Tribal Dress: Beadwork and Other Decorative Arts by Aubrey Elliot
(warning: Tribal dress is not traditionally modest)

Milestones of the 20th Century

I am in the process of adding South African history to our homeschool studies, integrating it with Tapestry of Grace. Here are links to the books I have found from the list provided for this section in an old edition of All About South Africa:




Government Policies

I am in the process of adding South African history to our homeschool studies, integrating it with Tapestry of Grace. Here are links to the books I have found from the list provided for this section in an old edition of All About South Africa:


Black Nationalism - 1910-1990

The Black Nationalism section of All About South Africa would fit into TOG Y4.

Links:
Here is a link to a sample lesson from Footprints into the 21st Century about Cry the Beloved Country. (High School level)

Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za, and don't forget to check your local library!

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton


or borrow the ebook from the openlibrary for free!

The Great Trek - 1836

The Great Trek section of All About South Africa would fit into TOG Y3 U2 Wks 14-15.

Links:
Here is a link to a sample unit study from Footprints on our Land about the Great Trek. Footprints on our Land is an excellent curriculum on South African History! The Unknown Land

Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za, and don't forget to check your local library!

Black sheep? by Maretha Maartens
The Great Treak by Brain Johnson Barker
The Message by John Coetzee
Unknown Land (Long Ago Books) by Jenny Seed
The Broken Spear by Jenny Seed

Books by Jenny Seed

Strangers in the Land

On the Move

I am in the process of adding South African history to our homeschool studies, integrating it with Tapestry of Grace. Here are links to the books I have found from the list provided for this section in an old edition of All About South Africa:

Prince of the bay by Jenny Seed

Free for Kindle!


Change at the Cape - 1790's


The Change at the Cape section of All About South Africa would fit into TOG Y2.


Field Trip:
The King's blockhouse (Devil's Peak, Cape Town)

Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za, and don't forget to check your local library!

The Cave by Peter Slingsby
Always Working by Candly Malherbe

The French Huguenots - 1688



The Slaves at the Cape section of All About South Africa would fit into TOG Y2.


Field Trip:
The Huguenot Museum (Franschhoek, Western Cape)

Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za, and don't forget to check your local library!

Huguenot Garden by Douglas M Jones



Slaves at the Cape - 1658


The Slaves at the Cape section of All About South Africa would fit into TOG Y2.

Field Trip:
Iziko Old Slave Lodge Museum (Cape Town)
Slave Bells (Stellenbosch)

Books to look for: 
I have had some success in finding SA books by watching on bidorbuy.co.za, and don't forget to check your local library!




Always Working. Slaves. by Candy Malherbe

All About South Africa

This is going to be the first of many posts about South African history.


Years ago, it was recommended that I get the book All About South Africa to teach my children about South African History. I was able to get an old copy of this book from the library and thought it was a good resource, so a friend & I each invested in a copy. We made a few unit studies from it for our children. At the time I was using KONOS, which is a unit study, so I just slotted in the unit studies we created between the KONOS studies we were using.

I am now using Tapestry of Grace (TOG), which is a classical curriculum that studies chronological history. 

The older version All About South Africa has a list of suggested children's books that the newer copy does not, so I am going to include it below, with permission from Random House Struik.

Most of the books are out of print, but I am trying to get at least one from each section in the book. I have found some from Amazon, Loot.co.za, and Bid or Buy, as well as have purchased a few from library book sales. My intentions are to add these books to our Tapestry of Grace studies in the corresponding time periods, as well as have my children read the sections from All About South Africa about that time period.

I am going to do a series of posts about each of the sections in this book that include books I have been able to purchase, including links for you to follow so that you can purchase them, as well.


I was told by a few seasoned South African homeschool moms that if I can get my hands on Jenny Seed books to jump at the chance. She writes children's historical fiction based in South Africa. I will add any of her books that I can get to the appropriate time period in South African History.

Here is a link to purchase All About South Africa:

allaboutnature.co.za


The San and the Khoikhoi
Men of Men Candy Malherbe
These Small People Candy Malherbe
The New Fire Jenny Seed
The Faraway Valley Jenny Seed
The Nguni Speakers
Zulu Traditions and Cultures Aubrey Elliot
The Xhosa and their Traditional Way of Life Aubrey Elliot
People of the Interior
The Ndebele Art & Culture Aubery Elliot
Abantu Martin West & Jean Morris
The Early Navigators - 1400's
Dias & De Gama Brian Johnson Barker
Early Navigators Philip Gon
Caravel to the Cape Eve Merchant
Early Days at the Cape - 1652
Jan van Riebeeck and the Dutch Settlement at the Cape Brian Johnson
A Musket and Garden Hoe J. Marais Louw
Stowaway to Nowhere Jenny Seed
Slaves at the Cape - 1658
The Cave Peter Slingsby
The Golden Kris M Cassiem D'arcy
Always Working Candy Malherbe
The French Huguenots - 1688
The French Huguenots Francois Theron
The Huguenot Garden Douglas Jones
The Land of the Watching Eyes Juliet Marais Law
Change at the Cape - 1790's
Merino Lesley Beake
On the Move -
Heroes Tales
10 Famous South Africans
Prince of the Bay Jenny Seed
Jock of the Bushveld P. Fitzpatrick
The 1820 Settlers
The 1820 Settlers of Salem A E Meakin
Living with the 1820 Settlers Marian Robertson
Settlers


The Great Trek - 1836
The Great Trek Brian Johnson Barker
Black Sheep Maretha Maartens
The Message John Coetzee
The Warrior King - 1815
Shaka Warrior King of the Zulu Lynn Bedford Hall
Voice of the Great Elephant Jenny Seed
Wars in the Eastern Cape - 1779, 1789, 1799, 1811, 1818, 1834, 1846, 1850, 1877
Nongqawuse's Prephecy Karen Press
Conflict in the East 1834-1879
Joseph Zulu Bert Schroeder
Boer versus Briton 1880-1902
The Spy Hill Jenny Seed
Ring Around the Moon Maretha Maartens
South Africa's Rainbow People
Jakey (1994) Lesley Beake
Caravel to the Cape Eve Merchant
A Time to Scatter Stones Jenny Seed
Black Nationalism 1910-1990
Cry the Beloved Country Alen Paton
A Time to Scatter Stones Jenny Seed
Government Policies
The Day Gogo Went to Vote
Milestones of the 20th Century
Illustrated History of South Africa Reader's Digest
Traditional African Crafts
Tribal Dress Aubrey Elliot
Art in South Africa
150 South African Paintings Lucy Alexander and Evelyn Cohen
Books
The Public Library Zirkea Ellis
How a Book is Made Aliki
Books Diane McClymont
10 Famous South Africans
Homes and Houses
A Concise Guide to Cape Dutch Houses Phillida Brooke Simons
Charley's House
Musical Medley
Sing Africa Patricia Schonstein
Stop Those Children Jenny Seed
Sport and Recreation
The Allied Book of Sports Facts & Records SASBOR
Towns and Cities
The Strollers (1987?) Lesley Beake
Hurry, Hurry Sibusiso Jenny Seed
Rescue Services and Road Safety
Road Safety Loiuse Landsberg
Caring for Others
Nursing Anne Hugo
A Cageful of Butterflies Lesley Beake
A Star Spangled Sky
Night Skies Peter Mack
Halley's Comet Peter Mack
Keeping in Touch
The Post Office WA von der Linde
Lighting up the Land
The Orange River Carmen Welz
The Orange River Project JC de Korte
Transport
Transportation Melane Basmon
The Journeys of Josephine Siegfried Stander
Arms and Armour
South Africa At War Peter Joyce
The Armed Forces Helmoed-Romer Heitman
Mining Gold and Minerals
Gold Carmen Welz
Struben's Golden Valley John Coetzee
Gold in South Africa Ted Scannell
Turning our Wheels
Oil & Gas Jacqueline Dinen
Coal BJ Stuart
South African Mining Anthony Hosking
Diamond Mining
Diamonds in Southern Africa Peter Joyce and Ted Scannell
Canvas City (1866) Jenny Seed
South Africa at Work
South African Industry Tony Koenderman
Killing our Planet
Nature in the Balance Rob Marsh
Nature Conservation JN Steyn
Working the Land
Erosion Suzette Bosmon
Food for Thought G Standning
Stock Farming
Merino Lesley Beake
Crop Farming
From Wheatland to Bread EAG Styne
Money and Banking
Money in SA CL Engelbrecht
Fun with Money Louise McDermott
Our Coasts and Oceans
Stormy Seas at Clearwater Bay Pieter Pieterse
Seashore Life
Marine Life Along Our Shores Pauline Harding
Encounters With Sea Life Lynn Hurry
Shells Diedre Richards
Explore the Sea Shore of South Africa Margo Branch
Estuaries
Seashore Life Charles and Roberta Griffiths
Water for a Thirsty Land
The Orange River
The Orange River Project
River & Dams Martyn Bromwell
Mountains and Caves
The Building of the Berg AR Wilcox
Dragon's Wrath RO Pearse and James Byron
Land of Wonder
The Singing Grass Freda Linde
Flint and the Red Desert John Coetzee
Erosion
Soil Conservation JC de Korte
Grasses, Grains & Conservation Joan Munday
The Weather and Climate
The Weather John Earle & Denis Bagrall
Soil R Thomas
Forecasting the Weather
Air J. Williams
Natural Disasters
Earthquakes Piet von Rensburg
Grasshoppers & Locusts William de Villiers
The Dove Dianne Stewart
Preserving Our Country
Nature in the Balance Rob Marsh
Bush School Lex Hes
Nature Conservation JN Steyn
A Bushveld Safari Nadine Clarke
Endangered Wild Life
Question & Answers: Endangered Wildlife of South Africa J. Conrie-Greig
Discovering Our Mammals
Question & Answers: Mammals of South Africa D. Richards
South African Animal Adventures Jay Heale
The Cat Family
The Cheetahs of De Wildt Anne von Dyk
Encounters with Wildlife L. Hurry
Land Mammals of South Africa Reay Smithers
Antelopes and Buffalo
Signs of the Wild Clive Walker
Jock of the Bushveld
Curious Creatures
Mammals J. Skinner and Penny Meakin
The Wildlife of South Africa Paul Rose
Bush School Lex Hes
Question & Answers: Snakes and Reptiles of South Africa R. Patherson
Amphibians
Pond & River Eyewitness Guide
Discovering Amphibians FAC Tiedt
Freshwater Fish
Freshwater Fishes of South Africa M. Bruten and P. Jackson
The Fresh H20 Fishes of the Kruger National Park U. de Villiers Pienaar
Aquaculture T. Hecht
Sea Fish
Common Sea Fishes Rudy von der Elst
Fish DR Schreuder
A Guide to Common Sea Fishes of SA Rudy von der Elst
Whales, Dolphins and Sharks
Question & Answers: Mammals of South Africa D. Richards
When Wales Go Free Dianne Hofmeyer
Venomous Creatures
Venomous Creatures Gerry Newlands
Things that Sting Eric Worrell
Spiders Gerry Newlands
Incredible Insects
Insects E. Holm
Harmful Instects AJ Schoeman
Grasshoppers & Locusts William de Villiers
Field Guide to the Butterflies of South Africa I. Migdoll
Birds of Prey
Birds of the National Parks of SA T. Campbell
Question & Answer: Birds
Birds of Prey I. Sinclair
Our Coastal Birds
Question & Answer: Birds
Birds Around You
Backyard Wildlife L. Hurry
A Beginners Guide to Our Birds Jo. Oliver
Birds of Southern Africa Ian Sinclair
Where they Grow
Nomaqualand Brian Johnson Barker
Explore the Cape Flora Margo Branch
Common Trees E. & G. Moll
Flowers and Trees
Tree D. Burnie