Newbie question! American History 1st Grade

I’m doing American history for 1st grade too, and we’re just going to cover it as it comes up. This past year we did learn the continents and countries of the world, but if you haven’t yet, you could always do a brief discussion of that and then we will for example, as we are discussing Leif Erickson, we’ll make a map and trace his route, same with Columbus. We’ll look at where Jamestown was on a map, and John Smith explored Chesapeake Bay, so we’ll find that. I’m not doing an official geography thing, but for me it makes the most sense to have it just be a part of what we’re doing as we do it!