Hurricane Katrina is truly a tragic natural disaster! Although are girls are all under 5 years old, there’s many lessons to learn:

1. Geography: We started learning from the Rookie Read-About Geography series just the day before Hurricane Katrina. Great books! Check them out right now!

2. Science. How and where hurricanes form, weather differences between coastal states and where we live in Toledo, Ohio. We used internet search. How New Orleans is below sea-level and what this means.

3. Current Events. I used Yahoo! News and we reviewed the news videos, pictures, and breaking new stories.

4. Charity, Compassion and Humanity. We discussed many issues of the refugees, lotting, and all their basic needs.

5. History. Hurricane Katrina is the worse natural disaster/hurricane in over 40 years.

6. Techonology: The issue of the levy’s and how we need to build an entire city from sewer systems, electricity, etc. from the “bottom-up”. We were on our walk last night and our kindergartener saw the sewer drain and she yelled “Mama, this is what they have to fix in New Orleans, right!?”

7. Reading & Research: We just picked up Children’s Encyclopedias and Dictionaries at the library. We’re learning how to find certain words in alphabetical order.

These are just a few of the lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. Please offer us more ideas and thoughts by sharing your comments below.

May God bless all the families directly affected by Hurricane Katrina, and may God guide all of us to help those suffering.

Hurricane Katrina – lessons to learn is a post from: American Muslim Mom Blog