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Today we learned about the major religions represented in Sri Lanka.  I used this site to teach the kids about Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam and compare them to what we believe as Christians.  We also used a pie chart to depict the breakdown of religions in Sri Lanka and discussed percentages... throwing in the math!!

Buddhism - 70%
Hinduism- 15%
Christianity-7.5%
Islam 7.5%

19 days until...

Following on from yesterday, I taught the kids to count in Sinhala.  I learned to count to 10 the first time I went to Sri Lanka and I still remember!

So here you go... your turn to learn!

1... eka
2...deka
3...thuna
4...hathara
5...paha
6...haya
7...hatha
8...ata
9...namaya
10... dahaya

easy right!

21 days until...

We had another math lesson today.  This time it was comparing the sizes of Sri Lanka and Bermuda.

We learned that Bermuda could fit into Sri Lanka 1,206 times!


Time is ticking!  3 weeks to go :)

22 days until...

Today we compared the populations of the world, Sri Lanka, Bermuda and Qatar (our stop over location).  This was a great math lesson.


We covered: comparisons, place value, bar graphs, estimation, rounding.

The population of the world:  7,058,529,231
Sri Lanka: 20, 869, 000
Qatar: 1, 870,041
Bermuda: 64,000