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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