There’s been talk in recent homeschool circles about States Studies resources, so I thought I’d share what we are doing. Now by States, I mean United States, all 50 of them (what we are doing for our California History is for another post).
Our family belongs to a postcard exchange that was put together by a mom at The Well-Trained Mind Forums. We send out and receive postcards from all over the United States and Canada. So far we’ve received postcards from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Missouri, New Hampshire, Hawaii, and Canada.
When we receive a postcard, we read it, look it up in our Scholastic Atlas Of The United States, map it on our United States Sticker Picture Map, and color it in our United States Coloring Book. It’s been a really great, gentle, interactive introduction to the states. In the coming months I will also be adding Trail Guide to U.S. Geography with Notebooking pages and Eat Your Way Through the USA for more geography and mapping skills, which I am finding we could use some more of. We also thoroughly enjoy watching The History Channels The States, and try to catch it on the boob tube when we can.
So there you go! How we study the United States of America!
1 comment:
You have a great blog and I'm so glad you posted the link on the postcard loop! I like the pictures you posted about your state studies. They look wonderful!
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