Where Are We?

With all the traveling we have done this summer Elias is always asking "Am I on the east side of the car? Which way is north? Are we in the state of San Jose or California?" It is definitely time for some maps!

We found some foam core to protect the wall and placed a US map up. As we travel around we try to pick up a hat pin for National Parks, aquariums or cities we visit. Elias spent some time discussing where we picked up the pin, what we were doing there and how we got there. He then placed the pin in its location.

I think he made all kinds of connections doing this. He pointed out that we visited lots of places in San Diego (as such we had to put some pins to the side) and that he hadn't visited very far east of the US. He really wants to go to Canada and get a map for there and it would be nice to go to New York where Uncle Caleb is.

Because there are no roads on this map we copied some individual state road maps and taped them on his door. Highlighters were used to show the route we took to Colorado in June and our previous road trips to San Diego. We highlighted the San Jose area to show that we flew there. Elias traced out the route we would take to Albuquerque in September and we talked about different places we could go on that route. All in all a good fun way to learn geography!