This book is an example of what used to be thought of as geography, what today would be a mix of earth science and social studies. The lessons are short--we typically cover two or three of them in the 45 minutes we have. So far we covered direction, measurement, and mapping. The book includes the lessons, some poetry, and exercises, some hands-on, some written.This week we learned about mapping. Here on the board the boys first looked at a picture of a classroom and then drew a plan of the room. We then went on and used a measuring tape to draw it to scale.
The book is ideal for early elementary kids to give them a nice mix of formal lessons, poetry, copywork, geography, science, and social studies. So Charlotte Mason, no?
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Interested to read that this book works with kids as well as 5! I had thought it would be geared to older children better. Perhaps I'll use it with Jemimah soon rather than later then. Thanks!
Well...I have to say it depends on your 5 year old. The little guy in the picture turned 5 in January and is really just coming along for the ride in this class. OTOH, the 7 year old will be 8 in September and it seems to be better suited to his age, though not much older. HTH!
Kris, is this book still working out for you?
Any additional implementation tips you'd like to share?
I just downloaded the Kindle for PC version (free from Amazon) and it looks really neat. I'm strongly considering it for my JBug next year. Do you know if there is anything I am missing by not having the print version?
I read from an electronic book on my laptop. Occasionally the kids needed to look at a picture in the book, though I image that would be even easier with a Kindle.
Because the group was on the younger side we just read from the book, and most often the kids were inspired to draw something related to what we read. We did do the mapping exercises, which they enjoyed. It would be easy enough to do more of the exercises or to bring in related resources to extend the class if you wanted. Overall I was very please with it.
This is a lovely resource. I'm so glad to find these bits from you! My 7 yo son will love this.
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