Great news from Putumayo Kids: they’ve expanded their children’s music line to include Africa, Europe and Latin America coloring books and sticker collections as part of their new World Culture books. And you’re going to love them!
I’ve always liked what Putumayo already does in terms of music, so I was pretty curious to see their new products in the publishing arena. I was not disappointed at all.
We got the Latin America sticker collection which is a hardcover “book” that comes with a ton of stickers related to the geographic area being explored. The fact that the stickers are reusable makes them great for storytelling. Vanessa took to this idea very quickly and, as you can see in the photo below, she started placing different stickers on the book as she made up a story about a man who played the cuatro and a boy who fished by the river.
The book also included a colorful map showing all the countries in the area. I’ve always loved geography and I guess I’ve passed my curiosity about the world down to Vanessa because she’s pretty obsessed with maps, too! She knows that I was born in Peru, papi was born in Puerto Rico and her brother and her were born in Denver.
Because she’s learning how to read and already recognizes all the letter of the alphabet in both English and Spanish, as soon as she saw the map on Putumayo’s sticker collection package, she looked at Venezuela and asked me what country it was since it started with the same letter as her name.
We also got the Africa oversized coloring book which includes an introduction, a map and a glossary to help children identify the animals and musical instruments found on that continent. Here’s Vanessa’s attempt at drawing her own African scene:
A great way to get kids interested in geography!
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Right now because they are so young I honestly have not done much teaching. We do have a globe though and look things up online if needed. I hope in the future to do much more!
We use lots of maps, youtube videos, Little Passports and books. It’s a favorite topic in our home!
We use videos we find online. My daughter was required to memorize all the states and capitals and was able to find a song online to help her keep things straight in her head.
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maps in their room and stars of the locations of where relatives are located across the country
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I teach my daughter geography with a digital map, but I would like to try this mode is more creative stickers are great drawing! Thanks for the opportunity!
We travel a lot and we always follow the path of the airplane on a map as it travels to our destination.
I teach my kids geography with culture units. You can see an example here:
http://www.mommymaestra.com/2010/11/exploring-culture-as-part-of-your.html
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i teach by son about geography by traveling and discussing the different places we go to.
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My son is only 4 but we started by discussing where all of his relatives are and explaining the distance and some of the differences in seasonal activities that there are. He can’t wait to go see his Tio this winter and build a snowman!
My oldest daughter absolutely loves geography. It is her favorite subject next to music and of course Spanish! We have several maps, but I’m always looking for more. She likes to know where everyone of her friends and family lives and also where different animals, music, foods, languages originate in terms of locales. Another way that we teach geography is to talk about and find places we’d like to visit and relate them to spots on the map. So if we’re planning to visit grandparents in Baja, we find the nearest or coolest beach to them, we find people online(from blogs and youtube) that she’s interested in, we find out what kinds of foods grow there and we figure out what we would do next based on our location, who we would visit next, etc.
We have a world map to track and talk about friends and missionaries around the world that we pray for. Whenever we read about stories from cultures from around the world we look for them on this map. We also use the map to refer to where our family lives in other parts of the country.
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Map puzzles!
Use maps & globes, online resources.
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