Year 2: Where is Southern Africa?

This week we started our topic on Southern Africa. We located the continent of Africa, and looked at the countries in the Southern region. Countries commonly included in Southern Africa include Angola, Botswana, the Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The children have shown a lot of improvements over the year on their map work, and used the atlases very efficiently to find the countries in Southern Africa

We then looked for some physical features in this region, such as the Kalahari Desert, which stretches across Botswana, Namibia and South Africa; Table Mountain in South Africa; and the Zambezi River, which stretches across Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The children then added these and labelled them on their maps.