Georgia Unit

Final update from Future Ticia 2024, I came back to look this up in 2022 when we were about to study Georgia right before the kids graduated in 2022 to see what our Georgia Unit was back when they were in Kindergarten, and for some reason they didn’t really remember this geography lesson. Go figure. But, we redid our Georgia unit as seniors just to remind them of the important details.

Hi! Future Ticia 2022 here, the kids and I are about to study Georgia again, because not too surprisingly they don’t really remember what they studied when they were 6. So, I’m looking at our Gerogia Unit and realizing I need to add a whole lot of information in, and organize this unit a bit better. It was a great geography lesson and I’m happy to see so many cool ideas from when we first studied it.

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Georgia Unit resources

This is where Future Ticia 2022 saw I needed more information. Why did we study pirates? Why did we learn about peanuts? I have so many questions, so I went back and looked at what we did and figured out why.

• 40 Georgia Fun Facts
• Pirates in Georgia

And if you want to torture your older kids, you should share the Homeschool Pop Georgia video.

This is only slightly better because it doesn’t repeat all of the facts over and over again, but still clearly geared for younger kids.

I’m really hoping that when Barb finishes all of his country videos in the very near future on Geography Now he will go and do videos for all of the states because let me tell you there is nothing good online, that I would want to play for anyone over the age of five.

Okay, there are videos I play to torture my teens.

Our past Georgia Unit

Future Ticia 2024 here, I really should update this picture, but I’m not. Maybe I will tomorrow morning, but Tuesday afternoon after spending a good portion of the afternoon with the dog, and then with a headache, I don’t want to.

Sorry.

Not sorry.

But the links down below go to a more in detail explanation of each of those minibooks (which are in the Subscriber library if you JOIN MY NEWSLETTER).

The dog does not understand that I cannot give her scratches and type at the same time.

She thinks this is a travesty. And using my foot to scratch under her chin is NOT the same thing, not at all I tell you.

Sorry, dog is distracting.

• Coke library pocket– on the outside is glued an ad from Coke in the inside (in theory, this particular boy’s has walked off) is the ad the kid designed.
• Trail of Tears– The kids loved making this flower
• State symbols-Another honey bee for state insect.  The other thing that interested me is the marine animal.  The Right Whale, so called because of whalers.
• Peanut butter printable (scroll down the page, it’s one of the images about halfway down or so, I copied the image and pasted into Word)
• Peanut activity– a great excuse to eat lots of peanuts.
• I have a Dream– someday my kids will dream a dream they can achieve, or that I can achieve.  I really have no clue how I’m going to make a working Iron Man costume for Batman.
• Jolly Roger– from homeschool share scroll down to the bottom (no blog post on this because well, it wasn’t really interesting and we didn’t do all the fun stuff due to lack of time during our meeting).  I also just saw a cute post over at Fantastic Five on pirates she used a preschool pack from Homeschool Creations……  So, lots of options for this one.
• Honey bee– nothing really to say…….

Incidentally, Superman says this is his book I took a picture of.  I think it’s Batman’s.  But, now I’m off to go play Monopoly Jr……  Joy!  Be back in a few

Georgia booklist

Okay, there are so many cool books from Georgia, and some that will make you cry:

• Georgia– a true book that’s a good overview book.
• Jingle Bells: How the Holiday Classic Came to Be– Despite whatever nonsense meme you saw on Facebook it has absolutely nothing to do with escaped slaves, my eyes cannot roll hard enough, actually there’s a great story about two groups claiming to have created the song, but there’s proof of the church in Georgia having written it for their Thanksgiving program
• Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman– the story of the first black woman to win a gold medal
• Draw what you see: the life and art of Benny Andrews– I need to look and see if there are any videos about him so I can make an artist study about him, at the point we studied Georgia it was close enough to graduation I didn’t take the time to make one, but now I’ll make one for myself
• Hard work, but it’s worth it: the life of Jimmy Carter– a fairly decent look at his life, concentrating more on his life after his presidency, which in reality is more where he made his impact.
• The Grudge Keeper– While the events of the story are more or less fictional, it’s still a fun story placed more or less in Georgia
• About habitats: seashores– a great overview of a seashore in Georgia
• Mr. President Goes to School– a completely fictional tale of when Jimmy Carter took a break from being president to go back to kindergarten, well thinly coded Mr. President who is totally not Jimmy Carter
• Martin Luther King Jr.– This is the Little People, Big Dreams series, which I completely grabbed just to check out the series. Just pick whichever book for the man your library has. This is a decent series, nothing in particular super stood out to me for this.
• I grabbed like 4 more books on Martin Luther King Jr. I’m not going to type them all out, I’m sure your library has loads of them.
• As good as anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Josha Heschel’s amazing march toward freedom– I am going to point out this one because it is different from all of the others bringing up someone else who marched with MLK jr that doesn’t often get named, and I like to find books like this
• The Trail of Tears– a great explanation of these events, while keeping it age appropriate for kids
• Pirates: robbers of the high seas– with the many barrier islands Georgia was a great place for pirates to hide
• Giant peach yodel!– you have to have a book about peaches for Georgia
• PB&J Hooray!– since Georgia grows so many peanuts, I made sure to grab at least one book about peanuts for our Georgia booklist.

Georgia notebooking pages

Okay, I’m gonna just talk about this very quickly because I need to get dinner started cooking and I’m running behind.

When we completed our Georgia unit with the kids as seniors the kids just didn’t want to fill out minibooks, so while I have them, I just didn’t print them out this time. We filled out the United States notebooking pages (again if you JOIN MY NEWSLETTER, you get a coupon as part of the welcome sequence to get that free).

I still find the fact that Georgia’s state flower, the Cherokee Rose has an entire story around how it is formed really interesting, and I loved making that back when the kids were little.

• Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Mikereichold, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
• the third picture is in public domain
• Originally published May 18, 2011