North America Continent Box - Montessori

Finally!!!! I finished the first continent box! We live in North America so it is the first of all.

I bought the box in Ikea. It was inexpensive and it came four I believe (?)

This is what we have inside. Lets take a closer look.

Inside the small box I have souvenirs that I got when I travelled and

things my family gave me when they travelled. To the left I have the Empire State building, a New York frame, the Statue of Liberty, two magnets of the Twin Towers, a Jade pendant from Canada, a Mexican game, sand jar from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Alcatraz souvenir and San Francisco souvenir address books and a California driver license and behind it the US flag.

This are brochures that I got from free from the internet. You can google free online brochures  and they'll send it to you for free.

This a book I had with the pledge of allegiance.

This is the first thing my son wanted to read. We read it all in one sitting!

You can even do a unit study with this book!

Another book I had. It has beautiful pictures.

This is how I organized all the 3-part cards and other cards I have. They are 6 x 9 manila envelopes. 

It works great to keep it all contained and when it is time to use them I will display it in a tray.

I got this Flags of North America from Montessori Print Shop

This and the one below are little dressing laminated dolls I printed from Making Friends

This are postcards that I had and ones that I collected from my yahoo group Postcards Around the Planet

Sports Originating in North America from Hands on Homeschooler. In the cards it says Montessori Tidbits. Leann must have change the name of the blog?

This are homes of North America that I took from the homes of the world I printed from Montessori Print Shop

I got this cards from The Helpful Garden (scroll down)

This are flashcards that I bought in Target. I got two sets so it is a matching game too.

This is Mexico envelope from Little Passports

I display all the souvenirs on his shelf. I bought that book of North America in Amazon.

This is how it looks!!!

So today we looked at the souvenirs and read the "When grandma and grandpa visited Canada" book. Next time I will put on display the next activity it could be anything that I show you. Umi will choose what he wants to learn. And then I will put it on a tray for him.

I had fun getting this ready! I hope you find this post helpful and please feel free to post a link on how you set your North America box!!

Postcard exchange from around the world!!!

Hello everyone!

I am so excited! I started a postcard exchange and there are TONS of people participating! People from South Africa, Peru, France, Canada, Saudi Arabia, China and the list keeps on growing!

Gosh! I didn't know it was going to be such a hit!

I will post pictures of some of the first postcards we receive!

Thank you all for participating!

This will make a great continent box additions!!!

If you want to participate join the Postcards Around the Planet yahoo group and I add you to the group!

To join you need to make sure you send at least 3 postcards to whom ever you want from the list if they contact you. And you need to write the following in the back:

1- Your name (you can make up a name)

2- Age ( you can make it up too)

3- City 

4- State

5- Country

6- Continent

7- Landmark

8- Typical food

9 - Native animal

You could also add anything that you think it is relevant to where you live!

I hope you join us! It is free all you need to do is to buy postcards from your town and pay shipping!

Monica

Bilingual song of the continents/ Cancion de los continentes bilingue

Hola Continente

(Song/Cancion Apu el Indiecito)

Hola America

hola America

Como esta usted.

Hello America

hello America

How are you today.

Suggestions:

You need:

A world map that shows each continent

A child

Sing the song and substitute the continent's name for the next continent as you travel through the world map.

Sugerencias:

Necesitas:

Un mapa que muestre los todos continentes 

Un nino

Canta la cancion y cambia el continente mientras que viajan por el mapa del mundo.

Bilingual song of the countries / Cancion de los paises bilingue

Hola Pais

(Song/Cancion Apu el Indiecito)

Hola Argentina

hola Argentina

Como esta usted.

Hello Argentina

hello Argentina

How are you today.

Click here to see the video of song and Big Boy showing a few  the countries/ Cliquea aqui ver el video de la cancion y para ver a Big Boy mostrar algunos de los paises.

Suggestions:

You need:

A world map that shows each country

A child

Sing the song and substitute the country's name for the next country as you travel through the world map.