Our geographic journey this year will take us through the rest of the world and end with a concentrated study of the United State. After that, I feel that the girls will be ready to tackle history together. Click on the links to get specific plans for each region.
Quarter 1: Europe plus overviews of China, Japan, and Morocco in preparation for our trip to Disney
Quarter 2: Africa, Asia, Australia (Some of this may extend into Quarter 3.)
Quarters 3 and 4: U.S. Geography and government
********Our Notebook*************
Our goal is to make a notebook of all our activities in geography. Maggie is in charge of the notebook while Annie makes animal pages for each region and contributes summaries. Our main atlas for both girls is the National Geographic World Atlas for Young Explorers. Here is what each girl is doing:Annie (1st grade)
- Daily work in Evan Moor's Beginning Geography
- Animal books for each region
- Continued work naming and spelling continents and oceans; name at least one country on each continent
- Locate our city and state on country and world maps
- Very simple illustrated narration summaries of about 3 activities per region
- Daily work in Trail Guide to World Geography or Trail Guide to U.S. Geography including map work and creating a visual geographic dictionary
- Daily practice on Sheppard Software's website to learn the countries of each continent and major geographical features; bonus for learning capital cities; For the U.S. learn all states and capitals
- Complete a chart of facts (capital, currency, area, population, population density, languages, and industry/resources) for all countries
- Summaries of books, tv shows, and activities not summarized by Annie
- A page of pictures and brief descriptions of landmarks on the continent using Children's Amazing Places. (This book is worth tracking down. We got our copy at Marshall's.)
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