eFantasmic is proud to release the first in a
whole new series of
Homeschool Social Curriculum

Homeschool Social Curiculum is designed for homeschool support groups, clubs, and homeschool organizations to get children together in a constructive, but more importantly, eFantasmic style, which is fun!

The Adventurer's Club's
Library Safari Into Africa

This is the first in a series of curriculum, and the official launch of The Homeschool Adventurers Club.

We tested this last week at a local Huskies and Ponies meeting. It was a blast! All the children had so much fun, that's all they talked about to-no-end afterwords, and all wanted to do it again in the next meeting.

All the moms agreed that they would use this format from now on.

What was interesting was that at this meeting, we had four guests from public schools. They said, "Wow, this was so much fun, you guys do this kind of stuff all the time?  How come we don't get to do this in our (public) school?" Those children wanted to come back and do it in our next meeting. Unfortunately for them, they will have started school by then. Fortunately for us, we get to do this again!

It was extremely exciting for the parents to see the process of kids searching for their reference materials for their presentation. The kids first looked in the library computer catalog for books on their topics. They found that there wasn't anything really there. Then they went to the reference section to find clues. From there they went back to the computer to search online to get more facts. They had to discover their own search terms, what worked, what didn't. Once they discovered what worked, you should have seen the exictement in their faces, the pride that they conquered it!  Plus it was a team effort.  Everyone was happy.

The children really learned how to utilize ALL the resources at the library. What was amazing was that you didn't know what they were going to present. Each time you do this, you are going to get completely different presentations.

Here's The Basic Setup: (Part of what we read to the children.)

Attention expedition team. Each of you has been brought here from different places for the purpose of this Library Safari expedition into Africa.

EACH OF YOU was brought here because you have a SPECIAL TALENT in finding the most INTERESTING and UNUSUAL things.

An expedition is a journey that is for a specific purpose. Safari is a Swahili word for the word "journey". So welcome to an exciting expedition through the libarary in search of exciting new discoveries.

During this expedition of the Adventurer’s Club, we will be exploring Africa. There will be five teams during this expedition. The teams are the Art Anthropology Team, the Music Anthropology Team, the Geographic Anthropology Team, the Zoological Team and the Botanical Team.

Each team will receive a Team Briefing sheet, and a Team Report sheet. The Team Briefing sheet will explain what each team’s assignment will be, and the Team Report sheet will be where each team describes their findings.

There is more to the curriculum that is read to the children, then the children are broken up into teams, and they begin to explore the library.

Plus, there is a "Formal Introduction" section of the curriculum where the children learn how to politely introduce themselves to others.

What I am about to tell you, was researched in 45 minutes.

Then they had additional 15 minutes to put together some amazing presentations. You should have seen them all working together, it was really fun just to watch. Once they put together their presentation, each took a turn to stand up and present their findings to the whole Expedition Group.

The parents absolutely loved it, because there is ZERO PREPARATION. The children loved it becuase it allowed them to explore, hunt and learn. During our test, here is what our little group of children turned up.

The Music Anthropology Team made a presentation on music. They played several African songs for us and explained to us how percussion and rhythmn heavily influences music. They also showed us how even in the simplist songs, there is always a reverence for elders and ancestors. Plus, the songs were quite nice. We all wanted to take the CD home!

The Art Anthropology Team showed us some really interesting bead artwork. They explained to us how the colors and shapes of beads all have meanings, and that bead jewelry is carefully crafted to tell a story, and convey meaning. I won't tell you what the yellow beads are for :-) You'll just have to have your own team find out.

The Zoological Team and Botanical Team showed us some really interesting animals and plants, while the Geographic Anthropology Team enlightened us to some startling facts about Africa. I had no idea that Africa is mostly desert! There was so much more than I can write here.

After the presentations, there was LOTS of discussion, and more facts came out as the discussions went on. Each child became an expert in their little field, and began to relate to other fields. It was really exciting to see it all come together.

FREE To The World

This was so much fun, we decided to make it free to the entire homeschool world! So go ahead and download it and give it a try!

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We want to hear back from you! We want to know what discoveries other Expedition Teams came up with. We will post them here, and put together a collection from our Homeschool Adventurer's Club.

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