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Cay Gibson
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Posted: Aug 18 2006 at 4:39pm \| IP Logged

Jen,
I expect to see a full-blown field trip on your blog.

That way all of us can go on a virtual field trip with you.

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Alerted the other day to my 8-yr-olds self-absorption with maps and geography, I found (ie: unearthed) (still buried in our hallway awaiting some new shelving) these two books:

Places of the World published by Parragon Publishing---includes 60 re-usable stickers. I bought this for $2.97 at Books-a-Million and hung onto it for the right moment, the right child. Ta-da!

And something else I bought awhile back from Children's Book Club and never dished out: Activity Atlas by Sally Hewitt. Includes country postcards, 250 thematic stickers and your own passport with sticker stamps to include as you study each country.

She's been sick with a fever the last two days and spending lots of time of the sofa and bed. This geography study and book finds was perfect timing for her.

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Posted: Aug 18 2006 at 9:33pm \| IP Logged

Cay, that sounds great! The activity Atlas includes a lot of the things ds has planned for his Around the World Notebook project.
He has decided to do it as an intensive unit-study, rather than a year-long thing. He wants to do a notebook that is made to look like a travel scrapbook, chronicalling a pretend journey with passport, souveniers and pictures from his "travels." He has even talked about using photoshop to fake pictures of him in famous places! I think it will be fun. we will start as soon as we are done with our nautical unit-maybe in late oct or november.

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Wow, Calcutta! (Or Kolkata...as you often see these days.) Our oldest dd spent the summer of 2004 in Calcutta with three other college students volunteering for the Missionaries of Charity. An awesome, life-changing experience for sure! I hope you will be able to visit these wonderful sisters.

Will you get to travel to other parts of India? I hope so! Dd and her friends also went to the north (Darjeeling) and to the Delhi/Agra area (Taj Mahal) and traveled south on a train to a wedding in Bangalore.

Have a safe, blessed journey!

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Karen T wrote:

I just bought The Ultimate Geography and Timeline Guide by maggie hogan and Cindy Wiggers and have read almost all of it. It really looks like something I can use for all my kids (the front of the book says K-12) - it has suggestions on what to cover for each level but also how to combine for different ages, etc. It shows how you can tie geography into not only history but also science, even math.
Someone on another list I'm on looked at it primarily for the timeline figures and didn't like it. I have to agree; they're OK but not the greatest in either scope or appearance, but I didn't buy it for them (I usually get pics from Google Image) but the info on making a timeline (wall, book or card format) is good.
I'm really excited about geography this year; in the past I've just tried to have ds fill in some outline maps of whatever history period we were doing, but this goes so much further. It has lots of reproducible maps, forms, etc., suggestions for games for all levels, and even shows how to cover geography from a literature base, using Hans Brinker as a detailed example (chapter by chapter)
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Karen

I am really interested in this resource. I would love to know whether this book turned out like you hoped? How did it work etc? Your review sounds great.

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yes, I've been using it this year mostly for my 13 yo ds and I do like the book a lot. I still don't care for the pictures, but as I said, that's easily remedied. If there's anything specific you want to know just ask.
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