More Introduction to the World - BYL



In addition to reading How to Make Apple Pie and See the World to kick off our Build Your Library Around the World Curriculum , 

We did some map and world activities. 

Things we did:
  • Drew a map to the park. 
  • Drew maps of our house.
  • Colored the World:

Read 
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Me On The Map (Rise and Shine)
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There's a World in My House
And we reviewed some whole-earth pages from various atlases we have. 

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