Tall Tales - week 2

Here is the overview of our Tall Tales & U.S. Geography Summer Camp:

Week One

Febold Feboldson

Paul Bunyan

Finn McCool

Pecos Bill

special guest: civil engineers

Week Two

Stormalong

Mose

John Henry

Johnny Appleseed

field trip: fire department

Week Three

Swamp Angel

Mike Fink

Davy Crockett

Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind

field trip: Cave-in-Rock State Park

Notes for

Mon - Stormalong

snack - read "Stormalong"
from American Tall Tales

by Mary Pope Osborne, p.37


activity - listen to Stormalong (Seán Dagher's Shanty of the Week)

practice knot tying


lunch - read "Old Stormalong: A Yarn of the Yankee Sailors on the Maine to Massachusetts Coast"
from Heroes, Outlaws & Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales
by Olive Beaupre Miller, p.30


add to MLB


read Giant Squid by Candace Fleming

look at picture of giant squid eye in Actual Size by Steve Jenkins




book display - Seabird

by Holling Clancy Holling (Newbery Honor)

Tue - Mose

snack -read "Mose"
from American Tall Tales

by Mary Pope Osborne, p.51


activity - quiz students on U.S. states learned last week

continue to add to our maps! find and label states in the
Northeast Region: New England and the Mid-Atlantic
13 states (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, WV, VA)

field trip to fire station


lunch - read Molly, by Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter

by Dianne Ochiltree


add to MLB


book display - The Great Fire

by Jim Murphy (Newbery Honor)

Wed - John Henry

snack - read "John Henry"
from American Tall Tales

by Mary Pope Osborne, p.87


activity - listen to John Henry Song (Tennessee Ernie Ford)

recall steam fire engine, as well as the steam locomotive and steam thresher from Great-Grandma Tells of Threshing Day by Verda Cross


lunch - "John Henry's Contest with the Big Steam Drill: A Story of West Virginia Told from Ballads of the Railroad Builders"
from Heroes, Outlaws & Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales
by Olive Beaupre Miller, p.147


add to MLB


read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

by Virginia Lee Burton


book display - Locomotive

by Brian Floca (Caldecott Winner)

Thu - Johnny Appleseed

snack -read "Johnny Appleseed"
from American Tall Tales

by Mary Pope Osborne, p.25


activity - taste a variety of apples to see if they really are different

finish our maps! find and label states in the
Southeast Region: Southeast and the Mississippi & Ohio Valleys
15 states (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MI, LA, AR, TN, KY, OH, IN, MI, WI, IL)


lunch - read Johnny Appleseed

by Steven Kellogg


add to MLB


read Granny Smith Was Not an Apple: The Story of Orchardist Marie Ann Smith

by Sarah Glenn Fortson


book display - Abraham Lincoln

by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (Caldecott Winner)

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