Hello families!

This week in social studies will be finishing up our study of continents and you should see some student-created maps coming home in the next few days.

We will be starting a study of the United States, specifically looking at each state and doing a research project that will allow us to travel across the United States (metaphorically). You can support at home by asking what your student knows about maps and why maps are helpful and important. They can also tell you some geographical features of the continent that they made a map of this week.

After wrapping up our continents study, we will be focusing on more specific and local geography!

Click this link to go to your map project:

 

 

Hello families!

 

This week in social studies we will be working on geographical features across continents. We will be mapping new continents each day, and on Friday we will be starting a project where we will create a large world map including continents and geographical features. By the end of the week, students should be able to label a blank world map with continent and ocean names. You can support at home by going back on this edlio to find the games that I posted last week. These games support with students identifying and labeling continents correctly, and they thought they were pretty fun!

 

Click Here: https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/World_Continents.htm

 

Hello families!

 

We had such a fun week getting started on geography concepts. Over the next two weeks, we will be continuing to build on these concept with a fun unit on geography and map skills that covers continents, landforms, directions, latitude and longitude, and more!

You can support at home by asking what students are learning in social studies and giving them opportunities to look at maps and identify features (compass rose, key, labels, symbols).

Third grade social studies is all about history, government, economics and communities. I’m looking forward to getting to know your students this week when we begin switching for these classes! We will be doing lots of fun projects this year, and our first unit will be geography! You can help us get a strong start by talking about geography at home and spending some time looking at maps and thinking about where we are located.