Free States and Capitals Unit

I am working on finding ways to find free homeschool resources on the web.  So, I thought I would put together a states and capitals unit from the web instead of buying a book.  

 Here is what I came up with:
1) Learn the States and Postal Abbreviations unit from Joy A. Miller at Five J's
http://fivejs.com/free-ebook-learn-the-states-and-postal-abbreviations/
and tips for learning them
http://fivejs.com/memory-tips-for-learning-the-us-postal-abbreviations/
2) Numbered State worksheet and states and capitals worksheets.  Scroll through to find the free ones.  Many of them are for members only, but the essentials are free.
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/states.html
3) 3 Penelope Peabody lost in the United States.  I'm going to only use the 3 free ones for fun.
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/states-lost.html
4) State Capital Flash Cards.  After reading what one homeschool mother said, I'm going to add on a few of the major cities in the United States that I want my children to know.
Here's a list of the states and the capitals:
http://www.elcivics.com/state-lessons/united-states-state-capitals.pdf
Map of Major US Cities.  Add which cities you'd like your children to learn.
http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/contemporarymaps/usa/basemaps/mjcityzmc.jpg
5) State Capital Bingo from Super Teacher Worksheets 
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/states/states-capitals-bingo_WNBMM.pdf

All of these pages are reproducible for your classroom.  We are going to try doing Social Studies once a week this year, but while my daughter is learning her abbreviations and capitals we will review them more frequently through the week.

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