Geography · Pre-K to Grade 3–4

Me on the map

Where I live, from my room out to the planet.

Your child puts their room, house, street, town, country and continent in order, as rings growing outward. Then they say the whole ladder out loud to you.

Pre-K to Grade 3–4
15 min
Kitchen things
On the screen

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Is it a good fit?

Ready if Your child knows the words house and street and can put a small box inside a bigger one.
Too much today? Start with My map: the words for where things are, in one room, before the bigger places.
Too easy? The Grade 3–4 level: eight boxes with your region in its place, and where your ladder meets the one to a family home in another country.

What your child practises

Places inside places
Smallest to biggest
Saying your address
Regions and continents

Listen for

“I am in my house, on my street.”

If your child says something like this, in their own words, the idea has landed. Finishing the rounds means they took part; this is the learning.

Your part

Three to five boxes, bowls or tins that fit inside each other
Be in the room: your child says the address out loud to you, and it is never typed or stored
Each question has a Read it to me button

Take it off the screen (optional)

Practise saying the address at your front door without help, and from Grade 1–2 write the ladder on paper, smallest to biggest.

The full design

What it is

Your child is inside their room, which is inside the house, on a street, in a town, in a country, on a continent, on one planet. The game draws that as rings that grow, and your child puts the places in, smallest first, then says the whole ladder out loud to you. Two things are learned at once: that places nest, and where you live, which is the safety skill every family wants a small child to have.

How it goes

The Pet is lost and asks for the smallest place first. Your child taps the place cards in order and each one becomes a ring around the last; a card tapped too early gets one question ("which is smaller?"), never a "no". When every ring is in, the screen asks for the whole thing out loud and waits for your child to tap "I said it": nothing is typed, nothing is recorded. At the top rung a third round asks where your ladder and a far one first share a box: the continent when both homes are on one, the planet otherwise. After that, a dare: is there anything bigger than the biggest box? A child who is stuck can take the smaller way, three boxes instead of five or eight, and the rest of the game still follows; a pause keeps the boxes already in, and the game comes back to them.

The Pet

Asks "which is smaller, my street or me?" and, when the rings are full, listens ("I will listen, not write"). Notices "your street: you knew it, most people have to ask." When your child is stuck on the saying, the Pet says the ladder in plain words ("Me, my house, my street. Now you.") and waits. Dares "bet you can add one more box on top of the planet."

By band

At four or five: three boxes, me, my house, my street, and "I am in my house, on my street" said to you. At five or six: five boxes, with the town and the country, and the street and town said aloud. At six or seven: seven boxes up to the planet, and the whole address said smallest to biggest; writing it on paper afterwards is the work sample. At eight or nine: eight boxes with your region in its place (province, state, county, governorate, whatever your country calls it), and where two ladders meet: the far one ends in your family's second home when it is in another country.

What it grows

"Me on the map" is the classic first-year geography lesson: scale as boxes inside boxes, starting from the child. Knowing your address is on every early-years safety list, and saying it, not typing it, is how it sticks and how it stays private.

Done, and what counts as evidence

Done is one ladder nested and said. The evidence is off the screen: the address said at the door without help, and from six or seven the ladder written on paper, which stays on your paper.

What's personal

The town is the first home place on your family profile and the far ladder ends in the second, when you have set one in another country; the country, its word for a region and the continent come from your country's pack, or, where we have no pack for your country yet, the country's own name and continent with the plain word "region". The house and the street are never shown or stored: they are said to you, in the room, which is the point: a child's address never goes into an app. Your child's name is the smallest ring.