Postcard Swap Geography Lesson: Delaware (finally)

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It has been a while since I posted about our postcard swap.  Way back in March, I believe.  There is a reason for that.  We haven't done anything with our postcards since sending out our cards back in March.  I wasn't real brilliant when I signed up for the swap.  Who signs up to do something new when they are due to have a baby the week it starts up.  I figured it was a good thing that Pa postcards needed to be sent out the first week because I could get my obligation out of the way and just enjoy the influx of cards.  We have enjoyed the sporadic delivery of postcards, but I haven't had time to do anything with them while trying to take care of Hannah.  I realized I wouldn't be able to organize and prepare the lessons right away, but I figured we'd be a few weeks behind at the most.  Then when summer rolled along I thought I would get the lessons started up then.  Nope, nope and nope again.  As I kept procrastinating I decided we would start up at the beginning of the school year.  Even though the about.com email lessons on the states that we are using do 2 a week (and we have been receiving 2 a week following the same schedule, order the states joined the union) we will be tackling one at a time.  I can't speak for what the future holds, but we were successful in starting up this week.

Okay, that was a long introduction to this post.  I do want to share the pictures we took back in March when we were preparing for this postcard swap.

These are the postcards we found over at the deer park

Here we are addressing them and adding our little blurb

(I had actually made my info a little more personal than some others have.  Being the first ones to send out I wasn't sure what others would do and I figured trivia facts could be found online so I wrote about our neck of the woods here in hilly, windy-road rural Pa where we meet up with the frequent white tail deer and occasional turkey or bear.  I also mentioned Pa has its own Grand Canyon.)

Then we mailed them out:

Fast forward 5 months.  We are now officially starting school and I have a schedule of what I want to do each day of the week (I am still tweaking it to see what will work, especially with Little Miss Demanding,).  Wednesday will be geography day.

We look at the postcard we have received and find the state on the map

Tabitha helping Amelia find Delaware

Then we color the state on our United States of America outline map

(the postcard said it well, Delaware is small but wonderful)

Then the girls colored their State Bird and Flower coloring page.

Tabitha plans on finishing this up tomorrow

This is one of many printables found at the homeschooling.about.com email course 

"Our 50 Great States"

In the lessons you can find out about state birds, flowers, mottos, trees, insects, songs and many more trivia facts.  There are quizzes and recipes too.

I picked 4 different things I wanted to focus on and found pictures on Google.  The girls will cut them out and glue them to there Delaware page.

(the flower, the bird, the seal and the outline)

We also added a piece of yarn to be able to locate Delaware.

As the state flower is the peach blossom we had peaches with lunch.

If you would like to see what others are doing to learn about geography, head on over to Children Grow, Children Explore, Children Learn and check out the carnival that Debbie hosts.