geography By Jana

This is a great ongoing project, you can send the Stanleys off on as many trips as you'd like. It's a very meaninful way to focus on the states-- you could do a world wide project as well.

At the beginning of the year my 1st graders didn't even have the concept that we lived in a city within a state within a larger group of states called the US. Now they can discuss directions as well as remembering places that our Stanleys have visited, things they did, etc. It's very exciting! You can also do this same sort of thing with postcards-- try to get a postcard from every state and plot the results as you go.