Mapping our route — preparing for the Family Heritage Museum

Daily YTT chant; quick recall of 'near' and 'far'.

• Hand out personal neighborhood maps

Next time, your families will VISIT our class to see the museum. They will travel from HOME to OUR SCHOOL. Some will walk, some will drive, some will take a bus or train. Today we'll map ONE family member's route.

• Notice the WORDS: leave, walk, take. Each tells us HOW we travel.

  model My route: leave home -> walk to bus stop -> bus to school -> walk in.

  prompt Teacher models from her own home to the school on a city map

• How will YOUR family member travel?
• Will they come from NEAR or FAR?

M-K-F-GEO-17-B Illustration

Reproduction of a Selina Alko interior spread from My Subway Ride — diverse urban riders, multi-cultural cityscape, vibrant collage style. Used here only as a quick visual model for 'how visitors travel.'

• On your map, draw an arrow from your home (approximate) to the school

  scaffold Use arrow stickers; teacher helps locate home if home address isn't known
• Tell your partner HOW your visitor will travel

  scaffold Sentence frame: 'My ___ will ___ from ___ to school.'

MG-4 Map

Classroom map of our school — drawn from a child's eye view at child-height, labeling our classroom, the front office, the cafeteria, the playground, the library, and the nurse. Arrows show 'from our room to the office'. Hand-drawn watercolor style; near/far labels included as a sentence-frame reminder.

M-K-F-GEO-17-A Map

11x17-inch personal neighborhood map (same as MG-4 simplified). Each child receives one with their home approximately marked (with a heart sticker placed by teacher in advance). Set of arrow stickers (red arrows of varying sizes) for path-drawing. Pictograph icons for travel modes: walking-figure, car, bus, train, bike.

• Show me your arrow. Tell me how your visitor will travel.

• Place all arrow-maps on the classroom wall as 'Routes to Our Museum'
• Preview: the museum opens next session

• Remind your visiting family member: come to the Family Heritage Museum next week!