Home Geography for Primary Grades with Written and Oral Exercises

This classic geography book for elementary age students is newly popular again. Blue Sky Daisies brings you the same classic book, completely re-typeset in a pleasing and fresh format with additional new teaching aids and enrichment activities. Home Geography for Primary Grades, originally published in 1894, teaches children the timeless geography of the world around them. In charming and conversational prose, C. C. Long teaches the fundamentals of geography.Navigation, directions, and the compassHills, mountains, and valleysThe water cycle, weather, rivers and streamsMaps and forms of land and waterFlora and faunaResources found in the earthPeople living and workingThroughout the book, teachers will find helpful writing assignments meant to help students narrate back the ideas they learned in the chapter. Oral exercises give discussion prompts. This book can be read aloud and discussed together, or assigned to independent readers followed by discussion.