Geography week instead of Geography day?

That sounds like a great idea to me.  It would be easier than one day at a time to try to do what you want to do with countries.  Have fun!

I’m wondering if there’d be too much lag time with that many weeks away from the study? Unless I deliberately reminded the kids of locations during read aloud times, I think they wouldn’t have enough consistent exposure to the maps, etc. However, it’s certainly worth trying. It may work very well. If your children are young and you are just using Holling’s books for instance, covering it in one week might make more sense. Map studies are a once a week study here most years. Some years we rarely visit them at all. When we do the once per week format, they seem to learn much more and retain it well.

I think the way Des originally described it, it sounds like she was thinking of keeping up with map work because it would wrap into history, but I definitely agree with Tailor Made that my kids NEED that regular map work if they are going to really learn it. However, I think the read alouds, recipes, etc., as she described might be a fun way to work it all in!