Alaska Mom Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Any suggestions for geography for 1st grade will be greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlessedMom Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I am using the Teacher Created, "Down to Earth Geography" Grade 1. You can see it here: http://www.buyteachercreated.com/estore/product/9271 I also considered Evan Moor's, Daily Geography Practice Grade 1. You can see it here: http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Geography-Practice-Grade-1/dp/1557999708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217342469&sr=8-1 Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinMominTX Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I'd also suggest looking at currclick.com to see what they have in regards to geography. I don't have anything specific to recommend, but they have some great resources on the site from a variety of vendors. I like that the site prices things reasonably which allows me to feel free to purchase a few different items within the same subject and sort of pick and choose what I'd like to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I am working on one now. I have it mostly finished. I just have to make it fully scheduled. I am using it for first grade in a month, so I will be done with it soon. I have posted about it here, but it wasn't finished. http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forum...ad.php?t=29571 It involves lessons in Draw Write Now along with my own plans for using the library. Books 7 and 8 have lessons on drawing maps of the world and of continents. Then additional draw and write lessons are on animals that live in certain countries and climates. In my plan, there is an emphasis on animals/ecology/climate per continent then you study the countries in the continent with an emphasis on culture. 22 Countries are included. Let me know if you want me to send the finished product along. I also had "A Trip Around the World" suggested to me when I started this. HTH Draw Write Now books 7 and 8 are very inexpensive and they have a full curriculum plan included.... but their suggestions are for geography with ecology, not culture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fshinkevich Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 I used Evan Moor's Daily Geo. practice, and plan to use it again this year for 2nd grade. We also used H.O. which includes some mapping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yslek Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 AO uses Paddle to the Sea for year 1 geography. (http://www.amblesideonline.org/01bks.shtml) I think you schedule readings throughout the year & follow what's happening in the story on a map. (I haven't done this myself, but plan on doing something similar with Marco Polo next year, a la AO year 3 :)) Kelsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 We're using for K: Maps and Mapping Young Discoverers Series My World and Globe (includes inflatable globe and removable stickers) I believe my children should be familiar with maps before they tackle SOTW. Then they get an introduction the world and continents through My World and Globe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkateLeft Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 We like The Geography Book: Activities for Exploring, Mapping, and Enjoying Your World by Caroline Arnold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 We like The Geography Book: Activities for Exploring, Mapping, and Enjoying Your World by Caroline Arnold. This is what's recommended in LCC, and I checked it out from our library to preview it - it looks like a lot of fun and I plan to use it after the Evan-Moor beginner titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 What I used for first grade geography: We read from our U.S. atlas about each state, looked at it on the globe and map, and then read books about that state. As we went along, we also talked about the states in relation to each other (all the southern states, the northeastern states, etc.). This the the list of books I used: Alabama: A Picture Book of Rosa Parks - Adler From Plant to Blue Jeans - Hommedieu (re: cotton) Life on a Plantation - Kalman Plantations - Stone Eli Whitney - Alter Alaska: Mama Do You Love Me? A Child's Alaska Mush! Circle of Thanks Akiak Arizona: Tuesday in Arizona Cottonwood Trees - Prevost Squirrel's Song - Wolkstein Is My Friend at Home? Bierhorst Arkansas: Come Go With Me: Old Time Stories From the Southern Mountains - Thomas (re: Oachita Mountains) California: How Far Felipe? Smoky Night Condor's Egg Striking it Rich Nine for California Colorado: Fat Chance Claude Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs - Goodman Native Americans and Mesa Verde - Martell Connecticut: Solomon Grundy Warm as Wool (or Ohio?) Delaware: The Legend of the Cranberry The Light in the Forest (books on tape) Standing in the Light (video) Florida: Elizabeth and Larry and Ed A Visit to Grandma's St. Augustine (video) A Kid's Guide to Florida The Great Pig Search Freddy Goes to Florida All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go My Family Vacation The Worst Goes South Beezy Georgia: Georgia Music Peach and Blue - Kilborne A Confederate Girl - Steele Mama and Me and the Model T Hawaii: The Last Princess: Ka'Iulani - Guzzetti Haleakalala National Park - Radlander Hawaii in Words and Pictures - Fradin The Last Hawaiian Queen - Stanley The Island Below the Star Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl - George Punia and the King of Sharks Luka's Quilt Idaho: Mailing May Wolf: Return of a Legend (video re: Sawtooth Mountains) One Potato - Porter Sunday Potatoes, Monday Potatoes - Shiefman More Potatoes - Belsam Potato - Watts The Enormous Potato - Davis Potato: A Tale From the Great Depression - Leid Illinois: The Journey Joshua's Westward Journal Indiana: The Floating House Story of Johnny Appleseed - Aliki True Tale of Johnny Appleseed - Hodges Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale - Steven Kellogg Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend - Will Moses A Place Called Freedom Iowa: Eve and Smithy Story of Paul Bunyan - Emberly Kansas: Wagon Wheels The Loudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas Climbing Kansas Mountains The Van Gogh Cafe Kentucky: Your Best Friend, Kate Daniel Boone Just in Time for Christmas Kentucky Troll: Mysteries Underground (nat. geo. video on Mammoth Cave, et al) 'B' is for Bluegrass Kentucky in Words and Pictures Louisiana: Why Lapin's Ears are Long All the "Clovis Crawfish" books Mimi and Jean Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras Cajun Through and Through Feydra Leroux: A Cajun Tall-Tale Maine: Blueberries for Sal One Morning in Maine Miss Rumphius Grandpappy Grandmother Bryant's Pocket Time of Wonder Maryland: Molly Bannaky Massachusetts: Make Way for Ducklings Cranberry Thanksgiving She's Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head A Picture Book of Paul Revere Plimoth Plantation (video) Across the Wide, Dark Sea Paul Revere's Midnight Ride Which Way to the Revolution Letting Swift River Go Michigan: Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Fellar Became a Legend - Rogers Paul Bunyan Fights the Monster Plants - Blassingame The Christmas Tree Ship The Log Cabin Church Mrs. Mack Minnesota: Follow the Stars: A Native American Woodlands Tale - Rodanas Legend of the Lady Slipper - Lunge-Larsen Sacred Harvest: Wild Rice - Reggiunti Mississippi: Freedom School, Yes! Oh Lord, I Wish I was a Buzzard Grandaddy's Gift Little Toot on the Mississippi Missouri: Mark Twain and Huck Finn - Ross River Boy: The Story of Mark Twain - Anderson Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi - Harness Mark Twain? What Kind of Name is That? Quackenbush (what kind of name is *that*?) Tom Sawyer, Danger in the Graveyard - Richardson Tom Sawyer Gives up the Brush (video - 30 minutes) Wagons West! Fiddlin' Sam Dengler There Goes Lowell's Party - Hershenhorn Montana: Once We Had a Horse Nebraska: Dandelions The Huckabuck Family Nevada: Tulip Sees America (covers several states) Any books on desert life, particularly the Mojave, would work for studying this state. Books on red rock canyonlands would also work. New Hampshire: Ox Cart Man (or is this Vermont?) Lucy's Summer Sara Whitcher's Story New Jersey: The Colony of New Jersey The 18 Penny Goose New Mexico: Josephina books Spanish and Colonial Santa Fe (video) Carlos and the Cornfield Cowboy's Roundup on an American Ranch Los Posadas: An Hispanic Christmas Celebration Grandmother's Adobe House New York: My New York How Pizza Came to Queens Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm The Inside-Outside Book of New York City Liberty The Story of the Statue of Liberty Joe and the Skyscraper Under New York North Carolina: Back Home My Great Aunt Arizona Mountain Boy The Colony of North Carolina The Jack Tales Grandfather's Land: We are Mountain People - Fitch North Dakota: River Friendly, River Wild - Kurtz Thrashin' Time: Harvest Days in the Dakotas Ohio: Aurora Means Dawn Lentil (Warm as Wool may fit better here than previously stated state) Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound Oklahoma: I Have Heard of a Land Angels in the Dust They Came From the Bronx: How the Buffalo Were Saved Oregon: Oregon's Journey Long Ago in Oregon Roughing it on the Oregon Trail Pennsylvania: Just Plain Fancy A Humble Life: Plain Poems The Folks in the Valley The Egg Tree The Colony of Pennsylvania Pioneer Church Bewildered for Three Days Punxatawney Phil Rhode Island: Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams The Colony of Rhode Island Loud and Crowing (Rhode Island Red roosters) Roger Williams and Rhode Island (video) South Carolina: Carolina Shout! The Colony of South Carolina South Dakota: Mount Rushmore (two titles) Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox - Bleeter Tennessee: Swamp Angel Davy Crockett (Rabbit Ears, w/ tape) Luck with Potatoes (do they grow these in Tennessee?) Texas: Legend of the Bluebonnet Beats Me, Claude Armadillo Rodeo Bluebonnet at Dinosaur Valley State Park Bubba the Cowboy Prince Susanna of the Alamo The Inside-Outside Book of Texas Armadillo from Amarillo The West Texas Chili Monster Jalepeno Hal The Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Fish Fry Freedom's Gifts: A Juneteenth Story Ganzy Remembers Prairie Christmas A Cowboy Named Ernestine Utah: Salt Lake City - Doubleday Grandfather's Gold Watch Vermont: Least of All The Wonderful Hay Tumble Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Snowflake Bentley Virginia: The Relatives Came When the Whipoorwill Calls One Christmas Dawn Appalachia: Voices of Sleeping Birds The Blue Hill Meadows Night in the Country This Year's Garden Washington: Island Time A Horse's Tale West Virginia: When I was Young in the Mountains In November But I'll be Back Again Scarecrow Silver Packages Waiting to Waltz Wisconsin: Giant Ball of String Dance at Grandpa's Christmas in the Big Woods Winter Days in the Big Woods The Deer in the Wood Going to Town Summertime in the Big Woods Wyoming: Tonweya and the Eagles - YellowRobe Lakota Hoop Dancer - LeftHandBull Inktomi and the Buzzard - Goble Jack Creek Cowboy Washington, D.C.: Capitol: Washington, D.C. From A to Z The White House The Wall Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. Puerto Rico: The Outside Dog Take a Trip to Puerto Rico Sergio and the Hurricane Abuelita's Paradise Virgin Islands: The Day the Hurricane Happened Izzard Pacific Territories: U.S. Territories and Possessions Pacific Islands Hope you find some things you can use, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asher Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 :ohmy: Wow, Regena! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth in NC Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Connecting Geography and Literature from TCM, which uses picture books, such as The Great Kapok Tree, Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe and The Island of the Skog. I used Draw Write Now and the One Small Square books to supplement. It was great fun. Ruth in NC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfernb Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Wow, Regena, that's quite a list! We did something similar but nowhere near as organized. We kept maps and a globe out. For the early grades, whenever we read something for school or for fun that mentioned a place, we found it on one of them. If the kids were intrigued, we got some more books on that spot and read about it. When we drove or walked someplace, we talked about direction, landmarks, etc. As they got older, they began to use maps. We got a good local map and had them use it as we drove to lessons, church, anywhere. They loved treasure hunts. Start out with simple ones in your house and yard using directions, pacing, and landmarks. Graduate to map treasure hunts as they are able. Details varied with age, but the basic premise was that if they could give me directions to a place so we got there within a set time limit, they were rewarded with a treasure related to the destination. Ice cream stores were their favorite, but we did bookstores, dollar stores, parks... Weekly Reader has some inexpensive booklets we found useful: http://www.weeklyreader.com/estore/p-937-map-skills-for-today-grade-1.aspx Another resource we liked was The Ultimate Map and Timeline Guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenKitty Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 That's quite a list Regena. I was just going to say Daily Geography Practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela in GA Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Galloping the Globe. My kids loved it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 These were recommended to me by Jessica: We're going to read The Seven Sisters who lived on a ball that floats in air by Jane Andrews (boy I hope I typed that title right) and it is a geographical fiction book. Also the Twins Tales by Lucy Fitch Perkins and the Our Little Cousin Series, all free through www.OldFashionedEducation.com under Social Studies and Geography link. They are all free. Here is a link where I got lots of suggestions: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29571 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I just got this book Around the World Art and Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun It is amazing!! My review is at the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Alaska Mom, did you decide and make a plan? I would like to know what you are doing. (I would have asked in PM, but thought others might be curious too.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloha2U Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Here are some first grade geography selections from Veritas Press: Legends and Leagues and Jo Ellen Moore's Beginning Geography Vol. 1&2, Geography/States & Capitals Songs CDs Other possibilities... Galloping the Globe or Cantering the Country. These ones were recommended to me just recently as I was roughly planning ahead for geography/history for our first grade year... Adventures in My Father's World and The American Story 1 by Winter Promise. Melissa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trivium Academy Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 SOTW has geography, outside of that just use a wall map of the U.S. and World and get acquainted. Remember 1st grade :D 3R's. SOTW's geography work will be enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Kirsten~ Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Regena, thank you so, so much for that amazing list! I'm copying and pasting and saving, for sure! :D I'm looking to combine A Trip Around the World, which someone already mentioned, with Eat Your Way Around the World (http://www.geomatters.com/products/details.asp?ID=374). There's also a book along the same lines, Eat Your Way Through the USA that focuses on recipes from each state, if you'd rather do a state approach than a world one. We'll probably also use Children Just Like Me. Hope you find something that works for you! :001_smile:I'll be curious to see what else comes up here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Kirsten~ Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I just got this book Around the World Art and Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun It is amazing!! My review is at the link. Oooooh! I missed your original thread about this! It does look wonderful. Thank you! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumtoo3 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 My dd1 is doing earthquakes, volcanoes, houses and homes, the water cycle and 3 countries of her choice. we are not following any particular curriculum, as we have made this up ourselves and will go with her interests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paula in MS Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I second what Jessica said. We are using SOTW 1 for first grade and are completing the mapwork. Reviewing this should be sufficient. If you want to add more, use the Geography Songs CD or just let her get familiar with some of the larger countries in the world that she can use as a tool to find her way around the globe. Galloping the Globe looks like a fantastic curriculum (I really want to use it) but with SOTW it is just too much, in my opinion. It includes history and science and literature all in one study. We are using the activity guide for SOTW and have plenty to do with that. I wouldn't worry so much about a geography study that includes much cultural information at this point. Just let them memorize where the countries are. You could also include major rivers and mountain ranges as well as oceans and continents. Paula Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 SOTW has geography, outside of that just use a wall map of the U.S. and World and get acquainted. Remember 1st grade :D 3R's. SOTW's geography work will be enough. We are not doing SOTW yet, and we need something to make homeschool fun, and base our reading on. That is why I went with my own geography study. I think that mummyfying a chicken and the other activities in SOTW are better for later grades and we will appreciate the history more later too. So for now we are learning where Brenda Songs parents came from, not every Asian is Chinese, and Hawaiians are not Asian, :tongue_smilie: Tigers are not from Africa... etc. Since we are studying animals it seemed perfect to tie in what country the animals live in and then tie in people/ culture /projects from there. :) I just wanted to share my view.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trivium Academy Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I don't think SOTW's geography is the perfect solution for every one but for Alaska Mom who is new to all this and she already has SOTW...it's enough for right now. I'm trying to encourage her to keep things simple for just starting out. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 with Owl and Mouse free software map games. Fun and unforgettable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dayle in Guatemala Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I would recommend Beautiful Feet Geography usings the Holling C. Holling books with the map pack from Rainbow Resource. It's fun and the stories are great. You can also incorporate science into it with the curriculum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kls126s Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I agree with Jessica on not making it more complicated than it needs to be. One idea for a fun project that incorporates US geography is a postcard exchange project. I'm organizing one starting this fall - you can check it out if you want - it's on my blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeinfl Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 is filled with loads of easy to read geography books. We are learning about China... We took out a book called A ticket to China and another one called, Why we left China. Don't get too many, keep it simple at this age. Daily we read certain parts of the books and discuss them. You can have your child do a narration or a dictation in which you write down what they learned and then they can draw a picture about it. We will eat a chinese meal. Paint Chinese Characters and numbers, even our names. Make a chinese lantern...template is online.. color an envelope red and put a dollar in it as we learn about the Chinese New Year Read one or two Chinese folk tales. We will pray for this country as we are Christian and then that is it. Our unit on China is done and we can go back to the library and do it all over again with the next country. Really, Geography at this age can just be simple, pure, and fun! The internet is loaded, did I say loaded, with free flag printables and maps. Have fun! You'd be surprised what you can come up with on your own. Blessings!!! Dee ps if you need loads of internet sites on China, I have them. Email me and I will give you most of the ones we used for our unit. rebel4jesus25@hotmail.com pps Egypt is our next country and again, I plan on keeping it simple, all the while introducing my son to the wonders of both Ancient and modern Egypt. :) ppps :P We also took out a few movies from Netflix. One on Eric Lidell, it's a cartoon, one on a boy and his panda in China...can't remember the title, and one from the library called, Families Around the World, China...so kewl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 We like The Geography Book: Activities for Exploring, Mapping, and Enjoying Your World by Caroline Arnold. We're using this for 3rd grade this year. It is excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I don't think SOTW's geography is the perfect solution for every one but for Alaska Mom who is new to all this and she already has SOTW...it's enough for right now. I'm trying to encourage her to keep things simple for just starting out. :) Oh, I see! How did I miss that? Of course if she already has SOTW then she can feel comfortable using that. ;) If she wants art activities that are more pulled together (she was asking about our art book) that will correlate to her studies, (maybe simpler than SOTW) then Artistic Pursuits first K-3 book has art tied in to ancient history. Sorry to throw more at you, but you can feel free to stop looking at geography. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom0012 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I haven't read all the posts, but Galloping the Globe is a lot of fun. Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StacyinKS Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Evan Moor Daily Geography here. :) We have Galloping the Globe, and it looks like so much fun, but we are also doing SOTW, and it would be a bit much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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