Home Geography For Primary Grades

Contains different teaching lessons for elementary school students on geography.

'Home Geography for Primary Grades' is a textbook on the subject of geography for children studying at the primary level. Divided into 45 chapters, the book covers topics such as how water is changed into vapor and vice versa, how compasses work, useful plants and how to identify them, as well as forms of lands and water bodies.

Contains different teaching lessons for elementary school students on geography.

This little book is confined to very simple “reading lessons upon the Form and Motions of the Earth, the Points of the Compass, the Meaning of a Map: Definitions.” The shape and motions of the earth are fundamental ideas—however difficult to grasp. Geography should be learned chiefly from maps, and the child should begin the study by learning “the meaning of map,” and how to use it. These subjects are well fitted to form an attractive introduction to the study of Geography: some of them should awaken the delightful interest which attaches in a child’s mind to that which is wonderful—incomprehensible. The Map lessons should lead to mechanical efforts, equally delightful. It is only when presented to the child for the first time in the form of stale knowledge and foregone conclusions that the facts taught in these lessons appear dry and repulsive to him. An effort is made in the following pages to treat the subject with the sort of sympathetic interest and freshness which attracts children to a new study. A short summary of the chief points in each reading lesson is given in the form of questions and answers. Easy verses, illustrative of the various subjects, are introduced, in order that the children may connect pleasant poetic fancies with the phenomena upon which “Geography” so much depends. It is hoped that these reading lessons may afford intelligent teaching, even in the hands of a young teacher. The first ideas of Geography—the lessons on “Place”—which should make the child observant of local geography, of the features of his own neighbourhood, its heights and hollows and level lands, its streams and ponds—should be conveyed viva voce. At this stage, a class-book cannot take the place of an intelligent teacher. Children should go through the book twice, and should, after the second reading, be able to answer any of the questions from memory. Charlotte M. Mason

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 compass -Hills, mountains, and valleys -The water cycle, weather, rivers and streams -Maps and forms of land and water -Flora and fauna -Resources found in the earth -People living and working Throughout 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.

Finally, Charlotte Mason's Elementary Geography has been completely updated and revised for a modern, secular audience. Includes supply lists, notes for teaching lessons, poems from diverse poets, and digitally enhanced illustrations. No need to edit on the fly, the work has been done for you! Collect your supplies in a handy box, then just open and go. Living Geography for the Primary Grades is sure to become a well-loved addition to your Charlotte Mason elementary homeschool. Includes nonreligious poems from Joseph Schuyler, Eliza Cook, Jane Taylor, Angela Grimke, Fanny Crosby, James McGirt, Valerie Dohren, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Lydia Maria Child, Mary Howitt, Coleridge, King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti, Sarojini Naidu, and Langston Hughes.