Legends and Leagues

We used VP's Legends & Leagues with Thumper at the beginning of 1st grade.  It was a relaxed geography semester and filled with activites.  I didn't post all of the activities we did....just some!

Introducing......Mr. Latitude & Mr. Longitude

Thumper's Strip Map of his house leading to the shed. I think he did an absolute beautiful job!

Learning about the Compass and the Poles

We made a water compass using a sewing needle, bowl of water, magnet, and a bit of paper. Thumper rubbed his needle across his magnet in one direction 60 times, layed it on the paper, then gently bumped the paper to where it was spinning, and when it stopped the needle was pointing NORTH! This was cool!

Now he's just playing with the magnet and needle.

Learning about the Continents.....Listened to the Geography Song (Oceans & Continents). We found all the continents on the globe and map, too!

 

Finished with this right before Christmas Break! Onto American and World Study after break!

Legends & Leagues Geography Review

This week I started reading "Legends & Leagues" by Veritas Press.  I was a little skeptical at first but as we were reading the book, Thumper was so energized about it!  It is humorous and engaging for my 6year old.  So, yesterday we started working on the activities in the workbook portion of Legends & Leagues.  Thumper cut out the paper dolls of Mr. Longitude and Mr. Latitude, which totally makes since to him now, and glued them on paper towel/toilet paper rolls.  They are adorable!  I really like how an activity goes along with each page of the reading book.  Today we talked about the Strip Map and he drew his own of our house leading to the shed.  He really got into it! Check it out on his 1st grade Learning Page!