Sunday

Globe Trotting Girls: Continents, Oceans, and Classification


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Week One

Items Needed:
  • Where Do I Live? by Neil Chesanow or Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney
  • Paper plates, construction paper, and brass fasteners
  • Oil pastels, black construction paper
  • Home Art Studio First Grade
  • The Seven Continents and The Four Oceans by Wil Mara (other books on continents and oceans your library might have will work as well)
  • 8.5” x 11” World map with continents and oceans labeled
  • Vocabulary sheets for continent and ocean from Mama Jenn's blog. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the free Geography A to Z printables.
  • One blank notebook per student or per family. 
  • Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
  • Sassafras Science Adventures Volume 1: Zoology 
  • Pictures of animals from the following classification groups: birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, and fish. I had six pictures for each group. You can use these free printables for your animal classification cards and also download the habitat game for fun while you study this year.
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  • Read Aloud: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (I love the version illustrated by Inga Moore.)
Geography Day One:

Read Where Do I Live? or Me on the Map.

Make paper plate with construction paper circles from universe to bedroom to show relation between you and the world. Put in your notebook.


Begin "Mission to Mars" project on Home Art Studio First Grade. Stop DVD after completing the background.

Science Day One:


Geography Day Two:

Read The Seven Continents by Wil Mara.

Begin learning this song for the continents or search YouTube for some you prefer to learn. Sing this song twice and point to the continents on a labeled world map.

Fill out a geography vocabulary sheet for continent. Let younger students draw a picture to represent it and have older students copy the definition on the lines below. Put in notebook. I also used the blank world map linked above and had the kids color each continent a different color and glue it on the page opposite the definition. You will use these maps next week.


Geography Day Three:

Read The Four Oceans by Wil Mara

Begin learning this song for oceans or search YouTube for some you prefer to learn. Sing this song twice and point to the oceans on a labeled world map.

Fill out a geography vocabulary sheet for ocean. Let younger students draw a picture to represent it and have older students copy the definition on the lines below. Put in notebook. I also used the blank world map linked above and had the kids color each ocean a different shade of blue and glue it on the page opposite the definition. You will use these maps next week.



Talk quickly about classification (sorting things into groups by common traits). Have older students tell younger students the traits of each of these groups: birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, and fish.

Using the animals pictures have students sort the pictures into the five groups above. Let younger students help too. 


Read Miss Rumphius and talk about how we will be learning about lots of places and traveling to them through books, videos, art, and stories.

Read chapters 1-6 of The Secret Garden this week.

Up next is Week 2.



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