Every class meeting will begin with a teacher and student intro where students answer a fun question of the day to get to know each other. 

We will be learning all about maps in this class, so our first class will be a discussion about why we have maps in our world, who makes maps and where can we find maps.

This discussion will lead into answering the question, "What do we see on a map?" This will help us see why it is important to understand the key on a map and what each symbol represents.

We will practice reading symbols, placing symbols on a map to label locations, and we will be drawing symbols for our own maps to begin creating our key. Landforms will be discussed during this class too. 

The second class will be a class started just like the first one, except the focus will be sharing our homework assignment with each other and going over directions. We will learn location related words like left, right, up, down, next to, beside, etc. Students will get to learn the fun chant, "Never eat sour worms" to remember north, south, east and west. We will also start to apply these by reading a map together that I believe will spark students interests. We will plan a route on our class map together to see the things each student would want to see and make our route simple to apply what we have learned.

For our third class, we will have completed another homework assignment which students will need to bring to class to share what they did for homework and we will be adding to this assignment during our class. Our assignment will also be used as a class activity. Be sure you bring yours to class!

The fourth class is a wrap up of what we have learned by adding a fun twist to it. Students will get to work together to create a class field trip! I will save the details of this class field trip so as to surprise students and let them have their fun creating it in person (which builds more community). =)

I cannot wait to plan our class field trip together!

See you in class soon!

Teacher Lauren