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Geography
As with history, the best way to introduce geography is by starting
with what your child already knows - his home and the area around it.
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Explore the local area with your child and talk about what you find
(eg, roads, shops, parks, fields, woods).
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Play games that help your child to understand directions (such as a
variation on "hunt the thimble" where he is given instructions such
as "left", "right", "up" and "down"; later on, you can introduce the
use of a compass and directions including "east", "west" and so on.
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Help your child to make a plan of her bedroom, showing where all the
furniture is (if you cut pictures of the furniture out of card, he can move
it around - though this might lead him to want to move the real furniture
too!); later on, you can make a map of the local area, and perhaps introduce
the idea of scale. Use the map to work out new routes to the shops and
to school.
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Use pictures, videos, books and CD ROMs to find out about other places
in the world. Find them on maps and globes. Talk about how and why life
there might be different from the way it is here.
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