Looking a bit more like a homeschooling household than usual, I hung our new map on our kitchen wall today. The kids positively had a blast labeling all the continents, the countries, major rivers, oceans and placing animals that belong in differing regions. It's a simple map, only labeling around 20 of the 196 countries of the world. But it's simplicity is what makes it a wonderful place to start. I felt like such a traditional homeschooler as the kids sat around the table eating while I talked about the differences between continents and countries and various other globe and map related knowledge.
The kids continued to have fun with it the rest of the day. Summer kept taking everything down and putting them all back in their rightful places. Later while Aidan was at karate and I cleaned dishes, she had us play a variety of games (many silly) with them.
The map doesn't show France, but at least the kids now know what continent it's on. And if you ask either of them, they will tell you in confidence that the capital of Canada, in fact, is not Ottawobenewy.
LOLOL I don't know ... I think Ottawobanewy is kindof cool... Maybe our Prime Minister should rethink the capital's name.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in the younger grades in the Convent, we picked a letter of the Alphabet and could choose a country, city, state or area from the whole work. We then had to make a little book using words and pictures to tell all about that region. Its plants and animals, how it survived, the number of people, what it produced, its weather etc. It was fun. I didn't learn alot about the world, but sure learned about the areas I chose. That would be so much more fun and easy today with the internet than it was then.