Me on the Map!
Each school year, my second grade curriculum has us learning all about rural, suburban, and urban communities! However, many of my students have no idea what city, state, or country they live in. So, I feel it is important to start off with a little Me on the Map action!
After reading the book, we got busy with the interactive sheets in my Me on the Map unit. Due to lack of time, we didn’t “hit” every piece available for each area. You can check out more of what is included here. But, we hit on enough to get our learnin’ on.
I love how each street looks different and unique. However, we did discuss how we should color item show we would really see them.
When it was time to learn about our city, we went on to google maps to see REAL videos of the downtown area of our city.
Although we didn’t use “real life colors,” I LOVE this drawing……
On the left, we wrote places we visit and see in our city! We are lucky enough to have the BEST zoo in WORLD. Really, it is. Not just because we say so!
On the right, we used a website to learn all about Nebraska. We listed 3 important facts about our state!
We also learned about all about our country, but I forgot a picture!
After we learned all of this information in our interactive notebooks, it was time to begin our flip-books.
The unit gives the option to use “My School” or “My Street.” Most of my sweethearts do not know their personal address, so we went with the school option.
This was probably one of my kiddos favorite section. First, we read about all of our states important items on a website and then we looked at real pictures of each! When it was time to draw, we view clip-art of each item to help us draw it a tad bit better!
To practice locating our state on a map, we colored our state red! We also colored the other states green, even though the blue paper makes it look orange.
Due to lack of paper, all of the girls were given a pink All About Me
sheet and boys were given a blue sheet. It worked. It saved me a trip
to the store. Yes, I know the bottom row isn’t even. My para offered to hang up the last few flip books before open house. I was thankful he took the time to help me get the final touches up before open house.
sheet and boys were given a blue sheet. It worked. It saved me a trip
to the store. Yes, I know the bottom row isn’t even. My para offered to hang up the last few flip books before open house. I was thankful he took the time to help me get the final touches up before open house.
My goal for this year is to let some things, especially things like this!
{Posting this online makes me feel like I’ve semi-succeed in this}
Alisha-
These booklets are great! I really like the look of "tabbing" the sections and using different colored paper. Adorable!
Cindy
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