Review: Let’s Go Geography

Issac has become pretty obsessed about geography over the last year or two.  He often drives his siblings crazy with his talk of oceans, continents and the like.  Enter in this homeschool geography curriculum and we have found a way to help his love for geography blossom!  

We will be studying the following countries in this first year:

We haven't really studied any countries before, so Issac was excited to start learning.  Since we hadn't studied any countries previously I decided that we'd just go in the order that is listed.  One thing that is really cool about the subscription process is that you can work through the countries in one of two ways.  You can go to the Let’s Go Geography and work through the countries any way you like.  You can also get an email each week with the direct link for that week's country. This second option is pretty neat because it helps keep the parent organized and on a good timeline whereas sometimes we might fall from what we had planned to work through.  The recommended ages are Kindergarten-Fourth Grade.  Issac is in fifth grade this year, but I just knew that he would love this program and we had to try it.  I figured if it seems a little easy for him we could add to what is recommended or we could just move quicker through the program.  We first printed off our passport and our dividers.  The first week we were exploring the United States and I was pleasantly surprised at all the activities that were given to us.  We had some map work, so that we could locate the area we were studying. There were then just a few questions to help us navigate the area.  We had several videos where we got to listen to the anthem as well as exploring and sightseeing.  There is also a flag activity, a coloring page, a page for you to write what you learned and a craft.  Each country has the same basic plan with your student doing the following:

Here's a sample of a few of the pages from the program.  

Issac doesn't really enjoy coloring too much, so for each country I showed him the coloring page and asked him if he wanted to do it.  I also showed him the craft and gave him the choice whether he wanted to do it or not. Some coloring pages he chose to do and others he didn't.  He did the same with the crafts.  I was fine with him doing that because there were so many other activities to do.  

Issac is really loving this program and we will continue moving through the countries until we finish them all. There are several review weeks built into the schedule and even a break week.  The schedule is planned out for 36 total weeks to finish the year 1 program.  We are almost to the first review section, so I jumped ahead to see what we'd do to review.  One of the things is trying to see if the child remembers where the countries are located.  

Reviewing the equator, latitude and longitude.  

There are different options for the way you can try the program out.  You can buy just one semester at a time or the full year.  

Here are a few of the things we did while we were working through Let's Go Geography.  

The above is one of the pages we were able to print that showed some of life in Haiti.  

This was the page where we glued all the flags we colored for North America. 

Map activity for Hawaii.

These are little picture pages that are to put on your continent dividers.  We wanted an easy way to flip back through the countries, so we taped post it slips on the first page of each country for an easy way to find the country we were looking for each time. 

Lighthouse craft for North America.  

Owl craft for Greenland.  

There are plans in the work to make a second and third year.  Not sure when they'll be released, but this will be the schedule for when it does come out.  

If you are interested in more information please check out this video on a typical lesson from Let’s Go Geography about how this wonderful homeschool geography program  works.  You can also follow them on their social media sites for updated information.  

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