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[quote=Anonymous]I remember learning states and capitals in 3rd grade, but my teacher was wonderful.  We got four or five states per week, starting at the beginning of the year, and we would learn a little history of each of the weekly 5, color a map of each state with its flower and bird, etc., and learn the capitals; the week's states and capitals were on our spelling lists for that week.  Every Friday we played the Map Game, which consisted of two US maps being stuck to the boards in the front of the room, and then the class was put into two teams; when it was your turn, you went to stand in front of one of the maps, and a kid from the other team stood in front of the other map.  The teacher would say either a state or capital, and the first kid to put a finger on that state got a point for his/her team.  This sounds really simply, but we loved the Map Game!  Also, by the end of the year we knew states and capitals really, really well.  I still remember random facts about states I learned in 3rd grade.

It seems really weird and ineffective to just tell the kids to learn all 50 states and capitals this late in the year?  They won't learn them well, and it will be a chore.  Is your kid's teacher very young?  It sounds like she messed up and didn't plan her time accordingly, or else somehow didn't realize she was supposed to have been teaching this all year, and then tried to cram it in at the end.  [/quote]

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