Julie has been travelling the world at St Marys Blinky Bills Pre-School with the children each week starting with ancient Rome and what happened a long time ago, with gladiators and lions.
Using the huge world map on display Julie pointed out to the children where Rome was and placed icons on the map with special places to visit. Next we travelled to Egypt where the pyramids are, lots of questions were asked by the children referring to the sand, desert and animals that might live there.
When this group time was over we moved into our sandpit area and by adding water to our sand, children amazingly began to create pyramids with the sand, lots of excitement and language flowing.
Africa was next which was great because children were so keen to see the pictures of the animals that live there. Then America with many icons for visitors to see, children passed around the felt pieces and looked intensely at them while Julie explained about each of them.
The world map is filling up and our journeys have not ended. The children are keen to see the map each time it is unfolded.
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