We began our Geography this week using Evan Moor's Beginning Geography and Lesson D3 in Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding. The first few workpages in the Evan Moor were pretty easy for Georgie. His favorite was one that involved tracing a path to find a treasure and then drawing what treasure was found. He decided his treasure was "Three chocolate coins for three pirates. Each pirate will get one coin."
After explaining how maps are a picture of things how they would look from up above, we were going to draw a map of our living room. Here is Georgie's map of my living room:
We weren't able to get outside for our treasure map activity so we will continue our Geography/Map lessons as part of our core curriculum for the next couple of weeks.
We read a lot of books for this unit. Unfortunately they need to be returned to the library so we won't be able to keep them on hand as we proceed forward. There's A Map In My Lap is the only one we own at this time so we will just have to keep referring back to that one. Thankfully, that seemed to be the book Georgie liked best (he is really into the Cat in the Hat these days).