50 states and capitols still taught ES?
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Anonymous
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Is this still taught in some/most elementary schools or is learning all 50 states and capitols a thing of past everywhere?
If your kids taught all 50 states and capitols, where are you in US and public or private? I’ll start: Not taught in school, NE (we bought those US placemats and did at home) |
Anonymous
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The Capitol is a building.
A state has a capital city. They didn’t teach you that very well in school, it seems. |
Anonymous
Didn’t teach it at all. Point of the post! |
Anonymous
| My kid learned them all in 4th grade in geography in Catholic school. They broke the states down by region and focused on that region for a few days. They were quizzed on each region and then tested at the end of all 50 states. They also wrote business letters to the office of tourism for a state they chose. They did a project on that state after receiving a packet of info in the mail. They presented them too. |
Anonymous
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Funny you ask! My 5th grader in MCPS was not taught states and capitals.
Our Sunday activities are cancelled due to rain, so today I sat her down with a giant atlas and she is learning them as we speak. When I was in 5th grade, we had to learn them. The test was a blank US map and we had to label all the states and capitals. Negative points for misspelled words … looking at you, Cheyenne. |
Anonymous
| Do you mean capital? My kids play "stack the states" on the iPad so they're good. It's a stupid thing to make kids memorize, and seems very unnecessary. I couldn't tell you what the capital of most states are now and I aced that test in 4th grade, LOL. |
Anonymous
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Song - it’s not a school house rock but same idea to learn states and capitals:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2CNZIlVIg |
Anonymous
| We still teach them but not as strictly as when I was a kid, where we had repeated tests on it. But I do think it’s important for kids to learn the states in elementary school and to have had some familiarity with the capitals so they recognize them when they come up in history lessons or the news. |
Anonymous
Sorry, Dover, I always forgot about you! |
Anonymous
| 5th grader is learning them now; in a public charter school in DC |
Anonymous
The point of the post is today, not the olden days when OP learned these things (but flunked spelling). She’s just ignorant. |
Anonymous
Or maybe product of Lucy Culkins era. When did that start? |
Anonymous
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Not so far, but DS is only in 2nd grade. He has all the states down through a combination of playing the Great States board game, and doing Statele and Travle USA every day.
Capitals are slowing coming along, but I've not pushed those at all. https://statele.teuteuf.fr/ https://travle.earth/usa |
Anonymous
Love those games! |
Anonymous
| No, but this is one thing I don’t care about. Reading, writing, math, science/outdoor Ed; I care about more. I’d love for them to learn cursive also. Add in less work on dumb computer/Ed tech in class, more text books and writing. Memorizing the state capitals is low on the education priorities for my kids. |