Our next Geography Club meeting is coming up this Friday, January 21. To help prepare for the class, I am asking each family to bring information about one of the "Microstates", countries with less than 200 square miles, that we will be learning about. (I have assigned the countries further down in this email so that we don't have too many repeats).


What does Ms. Patti mean by "find information"?

Have your child bring a book on the country or find information on the internet and print it out to bring along. The information should include a little history (some countries are newer than others and may have very short histories), population, products of that country, physical characteristics (mountainous, island country, etc.), currency, religions, life expectancy, etc.

Your child does not have to study this information ahead of time. He/She simply needs to bring it.

Here are the countries we will be studying. Please look for your child's name and have him/her bring information for the country listed next to his/her name. I tried to make it easy on the moms and gave siblings the same country. If your child would rather work on the same country as a friend, let me know because we can adjust this easily.

Abel ~ Andorra


Cooke ~ Antigua and Barbuda


Dean ~ Barbados


Fisher ~ Grenada


Hunt ~ Liechtenstein


Kehr ~ Maldives


Keller ~ Malta


McKinney ~ Marshall Islands


Sanders ~ Monaco

Sigmon ~Vatican City


These countries are extra. If you can also bring information about these countries or would rather do one of these, let me know. It won't be a problem to switch.


10. Nauru
12. Saint Kitts and Nevis
13. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
14. San Marino
15. Seychelles
16. Tuvalu

Bringing this information to this Friday's meeting will help the flow of activities for the meeting go smoothly. Thank you all in advance.