Well I promised posts about our north America study, and I had all the pictures uploaded and ready to go. But then I realized that I never even shared the pictures of our North America contient box and I needed to fix that first! So how about a few North America posts? Sounds good to me right? Well here we go!
The Details: I have made all the cards by using google images. It was very time consuming, but a little more budget friendly! In an ideal world they would be 3- part cards that have words on all of them, but right now they are just pictures since I couldn’t afford to print 2 set of everything (I spent $120 as it was). I think that the boxes look pretty good, but I do view them all as an on going project. I figure that we can add to them as we go! So here is North America!
This box includes:
~Pictures of people in North America
~Pictures of Birds of North America
~Pictures of Places in North America
~Pictures of Animals in North America
~Deer, Bear, Whales, Beaver, Raccoon, Dolphin, Mustang, Flamingo, alligator, Bison, and other North American Animal figures.
~Money from Canada, Mexico, and United States
~ Landmark Figures in North America
~ Boot from Texas
~ Bracelet from the Bahamas
~ Leather Belt Buckle
~ Native American Beaded Moccasin necklace
~ Some treasures from Puerto Rico give to us by friends that live there
(I think that the girls were looking at these, since they didn’t make the picture lol)
Our continent Study has been going on now for about a month and the girls have had a lot of fun exploring the boxes. I have a lot of people wonder how to use them and to be honest, it took me a while to figure out a good way to do it! But I think that this has been the year we utilized them the most! Pup loves to look through them and just sort the items. She also love to match the animals to the cards that are in the box. Bunny is ready for a bit more research. Right we have an area of the continent that we are working each week. One week we are talking about the countries and the landmarks we find there. Another week we talked about the animals and the climate of the continent. And then one week talked about the different foods in the continent and what grows where. When we are looking for information about something, Bunny can easily get out the animals from that continent or find out what food is eaten there without too much work for me! Plus if she wants to learn more about something, she can look and see new things! So that is how we are using them right now! If you want to see more of my continent boxes, you can see them here! How do use your continent boxes? Are they are goof learning resource for you? Share your ideas! I would love to hear them!
I am thinking I should start to gather up bits and pieces and put together continent boxes as well. Yours look great, thank you for sharing them with us!
This is a great idea! I home school & my 1st grader and I are going to make the box together…we’ve already studied Africa, Australia and Asia each using different hands on projects. This looks like so much fun…I can make it into a scavenger hunt in my house, to find things to put in the N.America box! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
October 17, 2013 @ 3:17 pm
I am thinking I should start to gather up bits and pieces and put together continent boxes as well. Yours look great, thank you for sharing them with us!
October 17, 2013 @ 11:44 pm
Thanks Crystal! Glad you stopped by! Good luck finding the treasures for your boxes!
January 25, 2017 @ 5:23 pm
This is a great idea! I home school & my 1st grader and I are going to make the box together…we’ve already studied Africa, Australia and Asia each using different hands on projects. This looks like so much fun…I can make it into a scavenger hunt in my house, to find things to put in the N.America box! Thank you for sharing! 🙂