I didn’t focus on USA geography for the past couple of years, but we did intensely when PacMan was younger. It’s time to bring it back as Ladybug goes into 1st grade and Krash into 4th. It’s a great time to combine them together and I developed a plan that I think they both will enjoy!
I combined a few different resources together to create my plan and I will share those with you in this post, there’s a video below too! Here’s the short list of what we are using…
I liked the printable pages from USA State by State and we already owned StickerUSA which came with a disk of downloads {this no longer comes with the book so you’d have to order extra stickers or make copies}. On the disk was a printable set of state birds and state flowers, so we are using those. We are also using the flashcards from the StickerUSA book. Rounding out our plan will be my USA Geography PowerPoint Show, which has been redone recently.
Here’s a video I made sharing all of our resources with you and how we plan to use them.
Books
These are the books we will be using to reference during our learning time together.
Goals
- Locate state on a map
- Know the capital
- Know the abbreviation
- Be familiar with – bird, flower, resources, special facts
Weekly Plan
My goal is to learn 2 new states per week, but I say that loosely! I know we probably won’t do more than that, but we may only get to 1 per week. I will do this with Krash and Ladybug at the same time. We will go through the PowerPoint together, read from the books I chose, and fill out the notebooking page together!
Games & More
We have a few other great USA resources and will fit them is as time allows!
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