South America: Peru

We left the continent of North America and headed to South America. We looked up both continents in World Book Kids Online. We compared the two continents and found out that South America is about 1/3 smaller in area than North America and had less people. North America has approximately 572 million people while South America has about 418 million. There are 12 countries in South America compared to 24 countries in North America.

We read our first story set in South America. Necklace of Stars is story that whose setting could have been in a number of places along the Andes.  We briefly looked at what the Andes look like in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. This fictional story most likely takes place in Peru.