me on a map

My name is Mrs. Schmelzer and I will be your 1st grade teacher this year. I am so excited to meet you and get the year started! I am starting my 25th year of teaching! I absolutely LOVE teaching 1st grade! I have been spending a lot of time getting our classroom ready. There is so much more to do! I hope you are ready to start school too. I am looking forward to seeing you at “Meet the Teacher Night” on Tuesday, August 9. Please bring your supplies with you so you can unload them all and we…

Me on the Map flipbook! Map skills activities.

Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video.

We usually turn to books for research and to reinforce themes. Since the children are already familiar with maps from our travels and nature hikes, we are ready to delve deeper into cartography and study up on maps. Here are a few picture books we've found that work well with our study of maps. What are your favorites? Pin It As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps: This is a clever introduction to the concept of mapping. Several animals take a journey and then a lovely map illustrates the…

We usually turn to books for research and to reinforce themes. Since the children are already familiar with maps from our travels and nature hikes, we are ready to delve deeper into cartography and study up on maps. Here are a few picture books we've found that work well with our study of maps. What are your favorites? Pin It As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps: This is a clever introduction to the concept of mapping. Several animals take a journey and then a lovely map illustrates the…

I'm link up once again with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 randoms from this week. I hope you all had a great Spring Break. If yours is just beginning, I'm super jealous. But enough about that, here are my 5: {One} Sweet Ms. Tracy Tegler from Creekside Teacher Tales asked me to be a guest blogger on her adorable blog. I blogged all about Reader's Workshop units and great literature to use for each unit. I also inserted a freebie. You can check it out by clicking Tracy's button. {Two}…

We have been working on some mapping skills during Social Studies. We did some brainstorming about maps, read some books about maps and then...

build a city map- printable geography set

We are now doing the theme on My Community. Below is our theme board. Here, we depicted a normal neighbourhood scene with shops, people as well as the mode of transportation. This is a very interesting theme because most of the children are familiar with the buildings. We talked about the buildings around Bandar Sri Damansara (where Little Beans is) and of course MacDonald's, Grand Union, Berry's Bakery and even Klinik Kanak-Kanak London are familiar landmarks to them. Of course, we talked…

{[{TEC.Meta.description}]}

Use the free website, Mapmaker, to create maps and practice measuring with a digital ruler.

Mon cheminement de maman, entre éducation respectueuse et pédagogie Montessori... Bienvenue !

One of the first projects or themes I find fun, simple and engaging is learning about Communities (2 weeks) and making a map as the culminating activity to end the unit. (For a total of 3 weeks on Community) This week, I started by reading the class a book on maps I got on Amazon. The book was chunked over a period of 2 days to ensure understanding. Maps - Kindergarten Unit After the story, the students were shown real maps that I had saved from going on little road trips. We sat in a circle…

My class this year has been fascinated with maps. They love to look at the maps we have in the block center, and they often draw maps in the art center. Treasure maps, maps of

1st grade Social Studies -Neighborhood Unit!

I recently presented this activity to a new student, Little-N joined in he hasn't done this activity for years. I made the cards for this activity years ago and I am happy to share the cards with everyone, you can download them here. While searching for the cards I found a file that I wrote explaining the presentations for this activity. I have included the explanation of this activity below. Presentation 1: Materials: -Tray -Three jars colour coded (white(light blue)-air, blue-water…