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Activity of the Week

Geography Fun

Bring out maps and the atlas this week!  Have fun learning about where family members live and places you have visited with your child.

While talking about the different countries and family members, discuss languages, cultures and habits.  Discuss different kinds of land masses, such as hills, mountains, oceans, rivers, streams, plains and how people live in each kind of environment.  You can also add which kinds of animals live in each location and the kinds of food available to them.  Talk about different climate patterns such as monsoons, hurricanes, droughts, etc. 

As part of this activity, check out a good book on world geography from the library and discuss parts of it in the second language.  If you check out a book intended for a child a few years older than your child then the temptation to read it word for word in the majority language is less and you will have to paraphrase anyway.
To get family invovled, have family members send digital pictures of what their landscape looks like and places they have visited. 

Tack a map on the wall and together with your child, mark each place that you talk about or that your family member has sent pictures of.  And if you want even more fun, join the International Postcard Exchange and have a good excuse to learn about other cultures!

 

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