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Erin
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Posted: Sept 28 2007 at 2:45am \| IP Logged

lapazfarm wrote:

If, for instance we get engrossed in geography (like what happened to day) and we want to carry it over until the next day

Theresa
I would love to know what you actually DO for your geography study, what activities do you undertake, what books do you read, is your study more of a earth science nature or a cultural studies one?

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Posted: Sept 28 2007 at 3:16pm \| IP Logged

Yes, I would really like to know this too!LOL!
Actually, as in everything else we do there is a lot of play it by ear going on.
We have our geography center set up with the Montessori maps, geography books, continent boxes (decorated boxes filled with "stuff" related to each continent), atlases, landform stuff, etc etc.
What we have been doing is a mix-up of both cultural and physical geography, with some political stuff thrown in for good measure. After starting off with some global activities, we are trying to go continent by continent.
We are only 3 weeks or so into the school year and so still trying to hit our stride, but so far it has been pretty good.
Activities include (but are not limited to: doing the puzzle maps, labeling the puzzle maps, pinning a map with labels, reading about the area of interest( Material World, and Hungry Planet are among the sources we are using), playing with continent box materials, looking at cards I made with photos from the different areas, imitating the art of the area, listening to music, eating food, reading stories from the area, etc.
We are also using a great book Titled "A Life Like Mine" which we really love.

Here is what we did yesterday:
I told the Chinese story of the Moon Lady and painted her. Then we read Amy Tan's Moon Lady. Then we all painted either the Moon lady(dd) or the actual moon (ds). Then ds read from Material World while dd and I read a little book about Asia. Then we read Jan Brett's "Daisy Comes Home" and talked about the hidden pictures and their meanings (Chinese calendar, year of the monkey, snake, etc...). Ds then decided to paint a dragon and dd worked on punching out an outline of Asia. We read together Ming Lo moves the mountain by Arnold Lobel. At lunch we had Ramen noodles and dc tried to eat them with chopsticks with little success!Then dd and I played store with our Asia continent box materials and some Chinese money.Ds took a break from the dragon, which is turning into a major project, to work on a Japanese architecture project he started last week. Then ds had Karate, dd and I played store some more, and then we all went out for Chinese food.

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