Monday, March 30, 2020

Day 10 Maps


Good Morning Kindergarten! Today we are going to talk a little bit about maps. A map is a picture of part of the world. Maps show what the land looks like from above, as if you were looking down from an airplane or flying over like a bird. Let’s read Me on the Map to learn more about maps. https://youtu.be/21keh7LS8K8


Here is a little more detailed information about how to use and make maps. You can watch just the first two and a half minutes of this video, the end of it gets more into first grade learning about compasses and measuring to make maps.


This next video for today talks about a special kind of map, the globe. The globe is a map that shows our whole earth. It is shaped like a sphere because earth is also a sphere.


Finally, whether we are using maps or just giving directions we need to know many different positional words to describe where to go. Check out this fun song about following directions.


For today’s activity, I would like for you to draw a map of your room like the little girl in Me on the Map. Don’t worry about measuring or getting everything in the right place, just try to remember to draw things from above as if you took the roof off your house and looked down inside.

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