New Jersey

It was a good intro to the Garden State of New Jersey.  The kids awoke to a post card email sent to them by their teacher (me).  It was a nice little picture of a 1907 Life Insurance Building found here. It was a lovely building and the kids immediately asked if it was still there.  I have to look that up b4 the next class.

So here is a recap to what we did:

~ We began with finding where New Jersey is located.  There was lots of questions like is New Jersey on the west coast or east cost of the United States, what ocean is New Jersey nearest too, and asking them why they thought the state was known as "the Garden State". 

~ We then found it on the map and colored the state in on this map and added it to their notebook.  We actually used a map I found at the homeschool share web site for a lapbook my kids were working on.  I thought it was a nice map for geography too though.

~ We looked at the symbols of the state map and briefly talked about the ones that caught there attention.

~  For reading we read through G is for Garden State.  Luckily our library carries most of this series.

~  For fun, I mean for an added learning experience, we played Junior Great State game.  This took up most of the time but, it was worth it.

That was mostly it.  Funny how it took over an over to get through.  The game really took a while to complete. 

Unitl next week...