Preschool Geography Ideas?

My preschooler likes Wee Sing songs. They have a geography one that we borrowed from my sister. It breaks the world up by location like Africa, The Middle East, Asia. There are about 30 songs and all they are taught is the names of the countries in each area and the states in the US. You can find it at www.sonlight.com for 6.95. This is the link for it: http://www.sonlight.com/CH061.html

My older kids don't like it so much be my 4yo wants to dance and sing along all the time!

I don't do too much structured stuff when mine are that age. But he's what I've done so far with my son who is in Pre K/ K We have hung a large colorful map at eye level for him in the kitchen. ( US map ) Anytime a place is mentioned on tv, in conversation or whatever we run and look it up on the map.

he knows where Florida is because that's where we went of vacation, Pennsylvania because that's where grandparents live, California because Disneyland is there, Arkansas because that's where we live...and so on. He probably knows about 10 -12 states.

We have a globe also that he likes to play with. It's better for showing oceans and mountain ranges and such.

I also wouldn't hit anything like Geography *too* hard at that age. However, I do like Five In a Row (for 4-8 yr olds) which has a 'Geography' piece with each book. I don't know if the Before Five In a Row (for 2-4 yr olds) has this or not... but I'm sure if you looked at Five In a Row's setup and liked it then you could use their Geography ideas with just about any book.

The preschool I went to was part of an international school, so we had different units for different parts of the world, with each unit lasting about two weeks. For instance, our Japan unit included learning about different cities in Japan, learning about Japanese culture, parents who were Japanese brought traditional food and clothing, we learned calligraphy, and read books about Japan. Same went for France, Germany, etc.. Whenever there was a holiday, we learned how that holiday was celebrated around the world.

Not for preschool age, no. At that point we were doing simple exploration of their senses and anything indoors or outdoors that we could think of.

In K we started with directions on a map, in real life, and identifying the continents and oceans on a globe. My kids also enjoyed a computer game called FrippleTown, where they had to "drive" two blocks south, one block east (for example) to deliver a package. It was a good introduction to maps.

Print out sparkling US maps and supply one to each and each baby. component out diverse states and say some thing like "that's Georgia. that's time-honored for peaches! They call it the peach state! enable's colour it peach like a peach, and make a G with a black crayon." i could try this for possibly 5 states or so, ideally some that are some distance away for another, and issues that are time-honored for issues that the babies can relate to alongside with nutrition. Maine- blueberries Idaho- potatoes Hawaii- pineapples Georgia- peaches Florida- oranges and so on. i desire this facilitates =]