2026 Summer Camp · Session 2 Day 3

우리가 사는 나라,
지도 위에서 배운 캐나다 🇨🇦

JC After School · Coquitlam, BC · August 6, 2026 (Thu)

The morning began with a quick science review of yesterday’s work on water, and then a race against the clock: the weekly literacy project, the Choose Your Own Adventure books, had to be finished. After a snack of fresh blueberries, the second half of the morning turned into something else entirely — an intense stretch of Canadian geography, Canada fun facts, and a geography quiz.

A close-up of a student colouring the word CANADA in red crayon on a large hand-drawn map showing British Columbia and Alberta — CANADA, in the appropriate colour 🍁

✍️ Finishing the Adventure Deadline day

Monday’s project came due today. Every student had to bring their branching story to a close — which, in a book where each page ends in a decision, means making sure that every path finds an ending. No loose branches, no page numbers pointing nowhere. The older students worked straight through it in their notebooks.

Older students working at a table finishing their writing projects — Racing to the last page 📚

A student writing in his notebook at a classroom desk — Every path needs an ending ✏️

Then a snack of fresh blueberries — and straight on to the main event.

🍁 Canada Fun Facts Vocabulary first

Before the map came the words. Geography has its own vocabulary, and a quiz is much easier when you already know what the question is asking. We worked through the terms together, matched them to their meanings, and used each one in a sentence about Canada.

borderprimarilymother tonguediversemajorityuninhabitedprovinceterritorypeakgulfstraitbay

The Canada Fun Facts worksheet with warm-up questions, a vocabulary matching exercise and true-or-false statements — Warm-up questions, word matching, and true or false 📄

The warm-up questions were the kind that get a whole room talking: What comes to mind when you think of Canada? What do you already know about it? Would you like to live here — and why? For children who are growing up in this country, some of those answers turned out to be surprisingly hard to put into words.

Students with their hands up answering questions during the Canada fun facts discussion — Hands up for the warm-up questions ✋

Two young students talking together over their Canada worksheets — Comparing notes 🗣️

We also read our way through a set of fact sheets — a short reading page about the country, and two infographics packed with the sort of numbers children love to repeat at the dinner table.

A reading page about Canada with sections on Canada Day, symbols, the capital city, languages and popular sports — The reading page: Canada Day, symbols, capital, languages, sports 🇨🇦

An infographic titled 25 Fun Facts About Canada — Twenty-five facts to argue about 📊

A Canada Day fun facts infographic covering lakes, apples, cheese and other national statistics — Lakes, apples, cheese and polar bears 🐻‍❄️

🗺️ Mapping the Country Provinces · territories · coastlines

Then the maps came out. Every student had a blank outline of Canada to fill in — ten provinces and three territories, each in its right place and spelled correctly. It is a genuinely difficult task the first time, and it takes a steady pencil and a lot of double-checking against the reference map.

10Provinces to label

3Territories to label

3Oceans on Canada’s borders

A blank outline map of Canada with empty boxes waiting for the names of the provinces and territories — What everyone started with 🗒️

A coloured reference map of Canada showing the provinces and territories alongside national symbols — The reference map to check against 🎨

A student labelling a blank map of Canada with a pencil beside a coloured reference map — Blank map, reference map, pencil 🗺️

A student concentrating as he writes province names onto his outline map — Spelling counts too ✏️

A student in a red shirt carefully filling in his map of Canada — Working coast to coast

A younger student writing labels onto her map of Canada — One province at a time

A student labelling his map with a coloured reference sheet beside him — Checking against the key

The whole class spread along the table working on their maps of Canada — The whole table, mapping the country 🇨🇦

📝 The Geography Quiz Fifteen questions

Finally, the quiz. Fifteen questions, each one requiring the students to read the map carefully rather than guess — and several of them about the exact patch of the country the children are sitting in.

The Canada Geographic Features Quiz Activity sheet with a labelled map and fifteen written questions — The quiz sheet, map and all 📝

A detailed reference map of Canada showing oceans, bays, lakes, rivers and Mount Logan — Everything you need is on the map 🔍

Which ocean forms Canada’s western border? And the eastern one? And which lies to the north?
What is the enormous bay that almost divides Canada in two?
Which country borders Canada to the south?
Which bay separates part of Canada from Greenland?
Which large river flows north into the Beaufort Sea?
What is the name of the tallest peak in Canada?
What are the two largest cities in Canada?
Which province do you live in — and which town, and which part of it?

That last group was our favourite. British Columbia · Coquitlam · the Lower Mainland — knowing where you are on a map of your own country is a small thing that turns out to matter.

A student working through the written geography quiz in his notebook — Fifteen questions, no guessing 📝

A camper smiling at the camera outdoors after a busy morning — Morning survived, and then some 😄

“After a quick science review and racing to finish the weekly literacy project of writing a ‘choose your own adventure’ book, and having a snack of fresh blueberries, the students spent an intense second half of the morning learning geography of Canada, Canadian fun facts, and taking a geography quiz.”

🍚 Lunch, Pool and Playground Refuel · swim · swing

Lunch was Korean and generous: braised chicken with potatoes, freshly cut kimchi and a full cooker of rice. After a morning that demanding, everyone had earned it.

A pot of Korean braised chicken with potatoes — Braised chicken and potatoes

A tray of freshly cut kimchi — Freshly cut kimchi

A rice cooker full of freshly cooked white rice — Rice, still steaming

The afternoon went outside. The pool first, and then the big basket swing — which needs one very willing pusher and holds a surprising number of passengers.

Children playing together in a sunny outdoor pool — Straight into the water 💦

Children piled onto a large basket swing at the playground while a friend pushes — All aboard 🛝

The basket swing in motion with children holding on and laughing — Higher, please 🙌

Today’s Growth
Students closed out a week-long writing project by making every branch of their story resolve, then built geographic vocabulary and applied it immediately — labelling provinces and territories, reading a map for specific features, and answering fifteen questions in writing. They also placed themselves on that map: province, town, region.

Ask them tonight which ocean is on Canada’s eastern side, or how many territories there are. And then ask how their adventure book ends — there is more than one answer to that one. 🍁

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