I taught a 50 states/Regions of the U.S. co-op class for K-2nd this past year. I’ve had several requests to share what I did each week. I’ll be honest— I’m a pretty good organized wing-it teacher 🙂 I started off with a solid lesson plan but that kind of dropped off the scene about half-way […]
Learning About the Southeast 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 […]
Gee’s Bend Quilts Coloring Pages
I have such respect for quilters! I know that so much time, planning and heart go into making a quilt. When preparing for the Southeast region geography study, I came across an awesome story about Gee’s Bend quilts and their quilting bee history. Have you heard of Gee’s Bend before? Gee’s Bend and Quilting I read […]
Learning about the Northeast Region of the U.S.
We learned about the Northeast region of the United States during the 3rd and 4th week of our geography class. Introducing the Northeast Region of the United States I realized that my young students (K-2nd) didn’t really know what the 5 regions were, so I made a song to the tune of “I’m a Little […]
Learning the 50 States (K-2nd)
This semester I’m teaching a 50 states class for K-2nd at my local co-op. I know, normally it is in 4th grade where we see the big push to learn the 50 states, but this year since all the kids are doing some sort of American history, we decided it would be great make the K-2nd […]
