WE LOVE MAPS!

WHY DO WE USE MAPS?

WHAT DO WE SEE ON MAPS?  WHAT SYMBOLS?

OUR MAP WE USED TO PLOT OUR "HOUSES"  SEE BELOW FOR WHAT WE DID WITH THIS MAP.

CHECKING OUT VARIOUS MAPS

MAP OF HINESBURG.  WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

I GAVE THE STUDENTS DIRECTIONS, EITHER NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, OR WEST, AND THEY HAD TO GO TO THAT SPOT IN THE ROOM.  AS YOU CAN SEE, I HAD THE LETTER UP TO LABEL WHICH DIRECTION WAS WHERE.  THEY DID A GREAT JOB AND LOVED THIS GAME. 

LOOKING AT OUR STATE ON THE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.  ALSO TALKING ABOUT THE COMPASS ROSE AND WHERE CERTAIN PLACES ARE IN THE U.S.

I TOLD A STORY ABOUT A BUNCH OF ANIMALS THAT WERE FRIENDS AND HOW THEY WANTED TO TAKE A TRIP.  EACH ANIMAL WANTED TO GO IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION, SO THEY ALL DECIDED TO GO ON THEIR OWN.  THEN THEY WORKED ON THIS SHEET.  THEY DID REALLY WELL!

WORKING ON THE MAP OF THEIR HEART!  THEY WERE SOOOOO CUTE!  I AM SENDING THEM HOME TODAY, SO ENJOY!  YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET YOUR TISSUES OUT BEFORE YOU READ THEM!

HE'S REALLY NOT THAT STRESSED!

SILLY GIRL!

ADORABLE!

AFTER BRINGING HOME HOMEWORK ASKING THEM TO FIGURE OUT WHICH WAY THEIR BEDROOM FACED, WE MADE A DIRECTION GRAPH.  WE DISCOVERED THAT MOST KIDS IN OUR CLASS HAD BEDROOMS FACING EAST!

HERE IS THE MAP AGAIN, BUT WITH "HOUSES".  THEY TOOK TURNS DRIVING  CARS TO EACH OTHERS' HOUSES, BUT THEY COULD ONLY DRIVE IN THE DIRECTION THEIR PARTNERS TOLD THEM TO.  SO, FOR EXAMPLE, I MIGHT TELL MY PARTNER, "DRIVE NORTH TO BEACH STREET, THEN DRIVE EAST TO SCHOOL ROAD".

THIS ACTIVITY HAD THEM USING A KEY AND SYMBOLS TO FIND PLACES ON MAPS. 

THEY ALSO MADE WONDERFUL COMPASS ROSES!