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Deciding whether to use Visits to Africa
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I have never done any type of geography, my son is 11 with delays and doesn’t gravitate to anything to do with drawing etc.. I am hesitant to include the Visits to … Where he would be doing maps . Would like to hear some pros and cons as to why or why not this should be included at this point. .
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I use Visits to the Middle East with my children … 10, 8, almost 7 (significant delays and adopted from Africa), and my 5yo tags along. We do all of the Menzel book questions orally. You aren’t really drawing the maps aside from I think one to a couple times when you are tracing, which is really quite cool how it all comes to be with the tracing paper and the graphite, etc. May be something unusual that your son may want to try. 🙂 We read the picture books which I think are absolutely integral to the whole program and children glean so so so much from picture books at every age. I gathered a few more books than Sonya included and we find them to be a highlight of our week. I don’t expect perfect remembering on the locations of all of the countries, either, but I am always happily suprised at what each child recalls from week to week. I think the 15 min we spend on it weekly adds great richness to our studies of the Old Testament and Greece.
With the map work, you can have the child color each country a different color. Say, “what color do you want to make Zimbabwe this week?” Skip the labeling if too hard. You can also cut out the names of the countries in the back of the book and label them that way. The books are great for that module.
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