Kindergarten Visits the Giant Map

We had a great four day week getting back into the swing of things after six days off for Thanksgiving. The kids were so excited to share what they did over the Thanksgiving Break. Today we enjoyed our visit to the traveling National Geographic North America Giant Map. A special thanks to our PTA for helping fund part of the project with a grant.

Our map in the classroom looked big until we saw the giant
map in the MPR.  We learned about maps and located our
relatives across the country on our classroom map.

After reading Me On The Map, we created our own maps. 

Each student made a map of their house or the classroom.

After our morning of map activities we got to visit the giant map.
Kindergartners could not believe how big the map was!  We all
took off our shoes so we would not damage the map.

First, we found New Hampshire.  It looked so small!

We found our families who live on the West Coast...

...and we found our families who live on the East Coast.

Tristan found where he used to live in Hawaii.

We swam in the Atlantic Ocean.

We discovered the North Pole. You can imagine how
excited they were to find the North Pole in December?!

We found rivers....

....and lakes!

We also practiced using the compass to move North,
South, East and West.  We had a blast.
Thank You PTA!