Geography Game Show

Last Friday, all of the Fuller Meadow 2nd grade students (and their teachers!) took an exciting field trip around the world. We visited all seven continents, learned a ton of new information about various countries, cultures and languages and we were even back in time for lunch. Wondering exactly how this all happened? Don't worry, no real passports were needed for our travel excursion, instead we were able to participate in a fabulous in-school field trip called The Geography Game Show. This wonderful presentation featured Mr. Neal Nichols, who has been sharing his love of geography and drawing with students from around the world for over 20 years.

Mr. Nichols is an immensely talented artist and traveler, originally from Wellfleet, (Cape Cod) MA, who visits schools across the United States and abroad to share his passion for geography, culture, and artistic expression. During our time with Mr. Nichols, he not only drew an extremely detailed map of the world (from memory!) but he also explained and shared numerous facts/tidbits about each continent and the countries/cities/bodies of water/etc. that are located there. We learned SO many new and interesting things and Mr. Nichols kept us on our toes by asking a series of questions throughout the program to test our newly acquired knowledge (hence the Geography Game Show title : ) Following the 2nd grade assembly, Mr. Nichols visited each of the 2nd grade classrooms individually to share more about his artistic ability and how he first learned how to draw and sketch. We were in awe of Mr. Nichols talent- simply incredible! : )

Thank you SO much to Mr. Neal Nichols for visiting our school and a HUGE thank you to our wonderful Middleton PTO for bringing in such a great in-school field trip- we had a blast on our travel adventure! : )