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

review the knots the children know:
slipknot
overhand knot
wrap-around-the-needle knot

teach square knot


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



look at 22 inch giant squid plush


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)

Goliath: Hero of the Great Baltimore Fire by Claudia Friddell

Fire-fighting Vehicles 1840-1950 edited by Bart H. Vanderveen

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 steamship, steam fire engine, steam locomotive (and steam thresher from Great-Grandma Tells of Threshing Day by Verda Cross)


lunch - read John Henry

by Julius Lester


add to MLB


read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

by Virginia Lee Burton


book display - Locomotive

by Brian Floca (Caldecott Winner)

Great Railroad Paintings edited by Robert Goldsborough

Thu - Johnny Appleseed

snack -read "Johnny Appleseed"
from American Tall Tales

by Mary Pope Osborne, p.25


activity - taste 12 apple varieties 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


book display - Abraham Lincoln

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

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