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Learning About the Southeast United States

November 9, 2014 by Maureen Spell 5 Comments

Learning About the Southeastern United States

Over the past few weeks my co-op class has been learning about the Southeast United States.

Each class we do basic review of continents and regions of the United States. I try to mix in as many learning styles as possible into each class session. We also watch a couple of our favorite Learning the States videos each week. Their favorite is Tour of the States.

 

Literature Connection

The first book we read was Stitchin’ and Pullin’ a Gee’s Bend Quilt  (afflink) by Patricia C. McKissack. While I read, the students colored their own Gee’s Bend inspired quilt coloring page.

Gee's Bend quilt coloring page

You can download the printable and see the videos we watched here: Gee’s Bend Quilts Coloring Pages

The following week we read Cotton Mill Town by Kathleen Hershey.

Book Summary: “Speaking in the voice of the child she was when ice-cream cones were a nickel, the author reminisces about visiting her grandmama in North Carolina.”

Learning about the southeast region of the U.S.

We also worked through our Southeast region booklet from Teachers Pay Teachers .

Printable Southeast U.S. Regions Puzzle

Click the photo to download the Southeast region puzzle.

Then for review each child cut the puzzle out and turned it upside down on the table. I put them in pairs and then would ask each pair to identify whatever Southeast state I called out. If they could correctly locate it on the wall map, then they got to turn over a piece of their puzzle. Winner was the team with all the pieces turned over. After the game, students glued the completed puzzle on to construction paper.

This is an introductory class to the U.S. so I am not expecting mastery at all. It is exciting to see the students be able to identify more and more states on the map each week!

 Other Posts in This Series:

Weeks 1-2

Learning about the Northwest Region of the U.S.A.

Learning about the Southeast Region of the U.S.A.

Gee’s Bend Quilts

5 Regions of the U.S.A. Co-op Class

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Comments

  1. Dawn P says

    April 20, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    Hi there,
    Will you be adding to this series of posts? I have been wanting to teach a 50 states elementary class at our homeschool co-op, but I was overwhelmed at the thought of covering 50 states in 12 weeks. Your plans look SO MUCH fun, but I am hoping to see what you did for the remaining regions to get a better idea of how to plan.

    THANK YOU so much for sharing your plan, and I hope to see the rest of the plans in the coming months!

    Dawn

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    • Maureen Spell says

      April 22, 2015 at 10:32 am

      Dawn,

      I will try to get a recap post up soon. 🙂

      Reply
    • Maureen Spell says

      May 22, 2015 at 9:37 pm

      Dawn, I have it up: https://spelloutloud.com/5-regions-of-the-u-s-a-co-op-class.html

      Reply
  2. Christy says

    May 20, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    I too would love to see your outline for all twelve weeks. I’m hoping to wrangle your 2-hour/class for 12 weeks into my 1-hour/class for 18 week schedule. This class looks like so much fun for the young ones and I really appreciate you sharing how you did it!

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    • Maureen Spell says

      May 22, 2015 at 9:37 pm

      Just posted it: https://spelloutloud.com/5-regions-of-the-u-s-a-co-op-class.html

      Reply

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