Geography Boxes, Redux
Yes, I'm here to bore you agaiin with our Geography Center, boo, boo! No really, I was a tad frustated with my lovely little white boxes from Michaels that I wrote about here, and I have since found many other uses for these gems, but wanted to show you our new and improved Continent Boxes. Thanks to Costco and their never-ending ability to supply shoppers with just the right item at just the right time :) As you can see in the picture, there are colorful boxes stacked on either side of the beloved Puzzle Cabinet. Contained inside these much larger and more functional boxes are all the Continent Materials and Three-Part Cards from my favorite Montessori site Montessori for Everyone!!
Here you can see them somewhat color coded, but not specifically. Antarctica is not made up yet. Here's a look inside a few:
Africa: (clockwise from top) A Sonlight K book as titled below, Africa Fact Sheet, All Africa Card Material, Animals of Africa.
North & Central America: NA & Central Fact Sheet, behind are the Control Maps, All card materials separated by small treat bags from Micahels and standing up in the smallest boxes that came with the original pack :)
Europe: Control Maps, Card Material, Europe Fact Sheet, Arrows, Currency.
We are very happy with these materials and continue to add to them as the year progresses and we discover new things to include. The best part is the dear children can access them easily and without having to guess which box is which and they hold a ton of items and keep them neat and tidy inside!!
The set-up for all the boxes is basically the same, with some of the unique items to each Continent being included! Hopefully you're not all snoring at this point, but I really needed a Continent Box Redux, so thanks for visiting and putting up with yet, another Geography post! We'll be off to play with our pin maps now :)
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Are you kidding me? We love peeking into your Geography Center! Thanks for sharing - everything looks so colorful and fun!
Posted by: Marianne | October 18, 2007 at 05:55 PM
Not boring AT all! I love what you have done. You are truly a real treasure chest of ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Posted by: Margaret | October 18, 2007 at 08:14 PM
I appreciated this post also- I have been waffling about whether or not to do continent boxes. I hesitate to take on another time and space eating project, but I think this one would be worth it, if I could pull it off as well as you (and many others who have blogged their boxes as well) have!
Posted by: Andrea | October 19, 2007 at 08:38 AM
Very timely as always Meredith. We're right behind you with bulging little white boxes too! Perhaps an exciting trip to Costco is in order!!! I love seeing your geography set up as well - very inspiring! What a delicious little selection you have. Please post again on your geography fun whenever!
Posted by: Jennifer | October 19, 2007 at 01:05 PM
Excellent! Love the colors and they look much roomier to hold more goodies!
Posted by: Theresa | October 19, 2007 at 03:08 PM
I love seeing what you are doing with geography. Keep sharing!
Posted by: Marjorie | October 19, 2007 at 08:55 PM
This is amazing! We will have to do something similar sometime in the future!
Posted by: Tracy | October 21, 2007 at 09:35 AM
Those are SUPER cute!
Posted by: Christine | October 22, 2007 at 10:00 AM
I have to echo everyone else - you can never show too many beautiful geography materials! =)
Seriously, though, I love seeing these materials in action. It makes all the hard work worth it. The new boxes look great!
Posted by: Lori | October 22, 2007 at 02:44 PM