This week saw the start of our new Around the World theme. We began by looking at the map of the world and learning about the continents,seas, hemispheres and the compass points. The grade 4's lent us their atlas'.. the children had so much fun looking at the different types of maps.
In two weeks time, it will be book week and all classes will be required choose a book to decorate their doors. Megan and I decided to link our door decoration to our theme. I chose The Atlas. We had great fun putting it all together, it really looks great.
I grouped my class according to the continents. We will sit in these groups for a while this term. On Friday we made a class map. Each group used crepe paper which they rolled into balls (a great OT exercise) and stuck on their particular continent. Once complete we assembled the map..it really looks effective and has helped the children to learn and remember the layout of the world map.
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| North America |
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| South America |
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| Africa |
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| Australia |
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| Asia |
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| Europe |
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| Almost done! |
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| The completed map |
Wow - that looks amazing!
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