Homeschooling in California

My post about Usborne books got me thinking about other books that we, and particularly my daughter, love. She loves maps, and globes, and all related things. We have a few books that she particularily loves. I think these books are wonderful for children that love maps, but also may be a good way to introduce geography and maps to kids who don’t love them yet. After all, if you want to spark an intrest, you want the best books, right?

I wrote this entry in my other blog, so instead of rewriting the whole thing, I’m just going to link:
Our Favorite Books for Learning About Maps

But I had another thought since I wrote that entry that I also wanted to mention. Another thing we’ve done for our map loving daughter is to use Google maps. It’s an easy way to look something up, and let her see a route we’re going to drive, or where Grandma lives in comaprison to where we live, etc.

Once, we even printed out a Google map (at her insistance) of our neighborhood one evening before we went for a walk around the block. She was thrilled to carry that map along, and ask where we were on the map every few minutes. It was very cute, and she learned a lot.

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