Home School - Maps (A Cheeky Request)

One of the topics we are covering in Home School this term is Maps.

We’ve currently been creating maps of our house, our local area and plan, this week, on making the map of the UK.

The objectives for this topic our simple:

• To locate a variety of places at home and abroad
• To find places on a map
• To recognise features of places
• About the location of other places
• About the types of transport used to get to other places

Now, like most of our Home School topics, I like to add an extra twist to it and make it far more enjoyable for both the Boys.

But what could I do?

Well it occurred to me that I write this blog and have a range of readership across the UK, so why not try and take advantage of this?

So William and I have a request:

We are looking for you lovely readers to help us out.

What we would like is a letter, postcard or anything that can be sent to us that highlights the area you come from.

(One suggestion, if you can't get a postcard, is to print a picture off of a local landmark on and send us that)

We respect that you will want to keep the identity of yourself and of your children, including your address, private. All we are looking for is evidence of which Town or City that you live in; this could be by a postmark on an envelope, a local postcard or even just a small letter with your location on.

So what will we do with it once we receive it?

We will look at the location on a map and discuss if it is local or far away. We will Google the place and find one interesting fact or landmark and discuss this and then investigate, hypothetically, how we would get there i.e. by Car, Bus, Train or Plane.

Once we have done this we will add it to our Map and create a catalogue of the different places within the UK.

(We would ask our lovely readers from abroad to join in but we realise how expensive it would be to send something, even as little as a letter or postcard, abroad.)

As mentioned above we are not looking for any personal information from you or your family just a location. If you want a thank you from us both then please attach a Twitter handle to it so we can identify who sent it and give you a little shout out on Twitter and a mention in a post of the completed activity.

If you do decide to help us please Direct Message me on Twitter at @mr_kitney and I will give you our address.

(If you are unsure and want more information please contact me and I would be happy to explain it more with you)

It will really enhance the learning that we are doing and allow a little excitement to the topic as well as contributing to their education. However, I am aware that this isn't for everyone and know some of you won't want to join in and if that's the case please pop back and see how we got on. 

Thank you so much in advance from us all.