We took a "finger walk" around our town. Unfortunately it was below 30 degrees outside, so I decided not to take a walk. It is a mile around our dinky town. I then tried to explain that if we followed the one road we would have gone up the hill and out of town. Or, if we followed the road on the other side of town we would have found ourselves in the neighboring state and on our way to church.
I showed them the map I printed out that shows part of the county and the roads I had highlighted that would take us to the two nearby towns (one 15 minutes away where we go to play group, the other 30 minutes away). Then I moved on to the state map which showed the counties and showed them we could go down south more to get to grandma's. Just realized I never used the word south (or any other directional words). Next came the map of the USA.
The girls each got a blank map and we have a bigger one for the wall. We colored in our state (Pennsylvania, cool it starts with Pp)
and then the state from which we received our first postcard (Indiana).
Then Tabitha helped me tape it to the wall (I need to find my Velcro actually because it has already fallen down) then we put up the postcard.
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This is so great! I love your US map that your using to have Tabitha color in. Did you find that on the Internet? If so would you share with me where you got it from? I was looking for something like that to use with Selena.
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I love the pics of the girls pointing to the states from which the postcard came from!! Very cute!! And they both have hair ties! We haven't needed those here yet!! LOL!
ReplyDeletePS...in response to your comment from my blog - YES, even though it was a "relaxed" week, math is NEVER relaxed. I feel like I'm buying new books every week to keep her going! lol!
Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. I think Debbie's postcard exchange idea and geography/history carnival is so much fun. It also means that I get to discover new blogs such as yours.
ReplyDeleteA finger walk through your town is a great idea. The postcards are an excellent resource to help teach our children about other parts of the world.
We would be delighted to send you and your girls a postcard from Australia. I will send you an email now. Thank you so much for participating in this with us.
I've been sitting here with this marked to come back and tell you I love this idea, and things have finally slowed down enough for me to do this. I LOVE this idea!
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