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This past year I bought the maps from Classically Catholic Memory for mapwork. It is easy to do, but I'm not consistent with it. We only finished half the year's work (Europe).  I really thought we were on track and didn't realize how far behind we were. I'm not sure if I want to continue this next year.
I'm looking for some new ideas. I feel like my lack of doing map work in the past and this very slow approach this year has made my boys well behind in this area.
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We do CCM also and we did Europe this year, too.
My kids practice on Sheppard Software. For the rivers and mountains, they did a game called Funny Games UK on the computer.
It's not ideal, but my 12YO memorized all of it and my 8YO knows all the countries.
It works better for me than traditional map drills because they can do it independently and throughout the course of the year, by working on it 2-3x/week, they memorize the information.
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jawgee wrote:
We do CCM also and we did Europe this year, too.
My kids practice on Sheppard Software. For the rivers and mountains, they did a game called Funny Games UK on the computer.
It's not ideal, but my 12YO memorized all of it and my 8YO knows all the countries.
It works better for me than traditional map drills because they can do it independently and throughout the course of the year, by working on it 2-3x/week, they memorize the information. |
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Walk me through how you had them do it. I had it in our morning basket and we all did it together. It was the first thing dropped when we ran out of time. I also learned my youngest could learn them faster than my oldest. We were always waiting on the oldest to learn them to move on. Perhaps I need to make it independent. My oldest retention was only about half (maybe a little less), so I wonder if he would benefit from something different.
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We don't do it all together. I outsource it. LOL.
Sheppard Software
I just jot down in their planner for them to practice on Sheppard Software 2-3x/week. Each child does it independently. (Funny, my 8YO learned it faster than my 12YO, too.)
When we got into the rivers and mountains, and I found those weren't on Sheppard Software, I found this other web site where they could practice those.
Europe's Rivers and Mountains
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Great links Monica! THANKS! 
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My 12 yo did the Classical Conversations Challenge A program thia year mostly because I wanted her to benefit from the geography intensive they do. Because CC is protestant,we were alert to any stealth protestant evangelization, and in truth, it was all fine ... And WELL worth it for the geography alone (tho my dd enjoyed all of it) By the end o the year she was able to draw a map of the entire world from memory and label most of 206 countries they focused on, as well as recite most country capitals and all the us state capitals. Great party trick! Lol But seriously, we were reading aloud Xenopho 's "march to the sea" and it talks about marching on Kurdistan, about Trebezon etc and no prob-she knew exactly what i was talking about! Better than I did, in fact (i cheated and looked on the atlas haha)
There isnt any secret recipe to how they do it, really. Basically they break the globe up into 7 regions (i think 7...) and they focus like crazy on drawing the countries, memorizing key features and capitals for several weeks each, withfrequent map drawing quizzes and capital tests. In preparing for the big final, she spent about an hour a day studying and drawing the maps (over and over and over). It really works! Like learning a foreign language or a musical instrument, the main thing was consistancy and repitition.
Honestly, if i had to do it all again, i would have put all my kids thru the Challenge A program for this geography program!
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