A couple of weeks ago we started our "Journeys" unit.
So keep in mind that this is my first year in 1st Grade. Plus my school is implementing Common Core for the first time. So we are experimenting and doing new things.
Here are somethings that I did with my class.
I thought it was important for my kiddos to have a sense of where they are on a map...especially if we were going to be talking about Journeys. We started off with the book, "Me on the Map".
We read this story over the course of 2 days.
We drew and learned about maps. And they learned key vocabulary such as North, South, East, West, compass, map key, etc.
We did this for about week. After they got a pretty good idea of how to use a map, we went ahead and started to learn about the World Map.
We started the 2nd week with learning about the World map. We learned the different continents. My kids LOVED learning the Continent Song. They got really good at singing it and identifying the different continents. This was probably one of my favorite units because I could see they were enjoying it so much!
About mid-week, we started learning the Oceans Song. They also LOVED this song!
I also read "Captain Bill Pickney's Journey". I really like this story because it tracked Captain Pickney's journey and we were able to track it on our World Map.
I went to Target and found this gem! A World Map Puzzle!
I bought 5 of them for workshop stations! My kids had a lot of fun!
Then we did a ME ON THE MAP activity. On each tab the kids wrote about the word.
I also made this worksheet for the kiddos. They had a lot of fun and felt so smart identifying and writing the names of the continents and oceans.
I wasn't very good about taking pictures about we did, so sorry if I didn't post everything up!
Over all, I think this was a successful unit!
