More Map Fun & A Sale Reminder!

Today, we spent some time learning about map keys as part of our Pirate-tastic Map Unit!. I was waiting on pirate themed silly bands to arrive from Oriental Trading, but I am truthfully really only patient with children. Beyond that, I have no patience. Especially when it comes to waiting for shipments. 🙂 I am running a tight ship… pun intended… so I have to keep moving along with this unit.

As a result, we improvised. We pulled my map key poster up on the SMARTboard and had a little discussion about the purpose of this map feature. Then, we created a map key using the symbols from my bundle & chart paper. After that, the kiddos made pirate maps with map keys on brown construction paper. The highlight? Crumpling them up to look like a real pirate map. This was very exciting to third graders! Hahahaha. Go figure. 🙂 I know that my Droid’s photo crispness leaves something to be desired… so I’m sorry! I’m the world’s lousiest blogger. I have had so many things to lug back and forth to work lately that I have intentionally neglected toting my Canon with me. 🙂 Lo siento! {I’m sorry!}

Also, just a reminder! The BIG Leap Year Sale is tomorrow! I’ve been stocking up my cart with goodies, and I am super excited about it! Here’s the 411 on the promotion! Click on the image to pull up a pdf file with links!