The class begins with reading Grandfather Counts by Andrea Cheng. We will play charades to test our comprehension of this beautiful book. We will use the travel theme in this book to jump into a geography lesson full of discussion, map skills, a song, and finishing off with a great game of charades.  We will learn that the land masses of our world are called continents, where they are located, their names, and a simple song to help us remember the names of each continent.  Using mapping skills we will locate a few cities, mountains, and The Great Wall in China and add them to a map (the link for the map will be provided).  Our interactive power point will help us discover what types of transportation we can use to travel between China and the United States as well as the time involved with each mode of transportation.