Today we had our first lesson in our unit on our Trek Across America. The kids used magic markers to color in the states on our route. This was not the first time we had studied a map of the states. Next, the kids used some creative thinking. They wrote the nickname on a paper and illustrated it.
Kids can be amazingly creative.
Here are some of our favorites they came up with. The Wolf I listed the names on a chart and the kids took turns illustrating them. We could use them all. Next we voted on our favorite name. Later in the day, we used a very large piece of graph paper to start keeping track of our miles.