True story:
I teach 4th grade and every day in social studies we spend the first 10 minutes with geography. I want my students to know how to read maps and be able to locate where things are in the world.
As part of this, we also play Around the World with state and national capitals. The rules are simple, I name a state or country and they respond as quickly as they can with its capital. After going through all the states for about a week, it was time to move on to other countries. The first country I used was Brazil.
One of the girls shouted out quickly "B!"
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