A home for their hearts Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Have any suggestions? My dc are 8, 7, and 4. I'm really looking for something that would work as a read aloud for the older two. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue G in PA Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 The Star-Spangled States was one that I had wanted to purchase b/c it looked so good! I believe that StacyTea used it this year and loved it! Wish I had gone ahead and purchased it. I think that, along with those awesome mini-books that Deanna created and posted on her blog would be so perfect for your ages! Thanks to Deanna at Narrow Gate for sharing those, btw! You can search for Narrow Gate Academy in the member list and she has a link to her blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisychics Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 My answer is on this thread and some others as well. :) http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22808&highlight=scrambled+states HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denainms Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 I am in the planning stages of our 50 states study too, and I came across this book, I ordered it, but haven't seen it, and we are studying birds, so I get 2 for 1 :D http://www.amazon.com/United-Tweets-America-BirdsTheir-Stories/dp/0399245200/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210367258&sr=8-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizyPenguin Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 Hi Stacy! Glad to meet ya' and you spell your name right, too! LOL! Anyway, we're happily using the Star Spangled State Book and Workbook this year which I purchased from KnowledgeQuestMaps.com. Love it! Also really like the "Time for Learning States" book as a spine. It's really really neat! (I found it at Costco last year.) Also think "Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America" written by Lynne Cheney and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser is so fun to read through! Another good book we had on hand during this year was National Geographic Our Fifty States which I bought from ChristianBooks.com. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 I plan on using this one next year with my kids Don't know much about the 50 states They have one on the Presidents too which I plan to use. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Don't know if you want any library picture books to use with this, but here's the list of those I used when my son was younger (it includes some stuff to cover the territories, too): Alabama: A Picture Book of Rosa Parks - Adler From Plant to Blue Jeans - Hommedieu (re: cotton) Life on a Plantation - Kalman Plantations - Stone Eli Whitney - Alter Alaska: Mama Do You Love Me? A Child's Alaska Mush! Circle of Thanks Akiak Arizona: Tuesday in Arizona Cottonwood Trees - Prevost Squirrel's Song - Wolkstein Is My Friend at Home? Bierhorst Arkansas: Come Go With Me: Old Time Stories From the Southern Mountains - Thomas (re: Oachita Mountains) California: How Far Felipe? Smoky Night Condor's Egg Striking it Rich Nine for California Colorado: Fat Chance Claude Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs - Goodman Native Americans and Mesa Verde - Martell Connecticut: Solomon Grundy Warm as Wool (or Ohio?) Delaware: The Legend of the Cranberry The Light in the Forest (books on tape) Standing in the Light (video) Florida: Elizabeth and Larry and Ed A Visit to Grandma's St. Augustine (video) A Kid's Guide to Florida The Great Pig Search Freddy Goes to Florida All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go My Family Vacation The Worst Goes South Beezy Georgia: Georgia Music Peach and Blue - Kilborne A Confederate Girl - Steele Mama and Me and the Model T Hawaii: The Last Princess: Ka'Iulani - Guzzetti Haleakalala National Park - Radlander Hawaii in Words and Pictures - Fradin The Last Hawaiian Queen - Stanley The Island Below the Star Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl - George Punia and the King of Sharks Luka's Quilt Idaho: Mailing May Wolf: Return of a Legend (video re: Sawtooth Mountains) One Potato - Porter Sunday Potatoes, Monday Potatoes - Shiefman More Potatoes - Belsam Potato - Watts The Enormous Potato - Davis Potato: A Tale From the Great Depression - Leid Illinois: The Journey Joshua's Westward Journal Indiana: The Floating House Story of Johnny Appleseed - Aliki True Tale of Johnny Appleseed - Hodges Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale - Steven Kellogg Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend - Will Moses A Place Called Freedom Iowa: Eve and Smithy Story of Paul Bunyan - Emberly Kansas: Wagon Wheels The Loudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas Climbing Kansas Mountains The Van Gogh Cafe Kentucky: Your Best Friend, Kate Daniel Boone Just in Time for Christmas Kentucky Troll: Mysteries Underground (nat. geo. video on Mammoth Cave, et al) 'B' is for Bluegrass Kentucky in Words and Pictures Louisiana: Why Lapin's Ears are Long All the "Clovis Crawfish" books Mimi and Jean Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras Cajun Through and Through Feydra Leroux: A Cajun Tall-Tale Maine: Blueberries for Sal One Morning in Maine Miss Rumphius Grandpappy Grandmother Bryant's Pocket Time of Wonder Maryland: Molly Bannaky Massachusetts: Make Way for Ducklings Cranberry Thanksgiving She's Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head A Picture Book of Paul Revere Plimoth Plantation (video) Across the Wide, Dark Sea Paul Revere's Midnight Ride Which Way to the Revolution Letting Swift River Go Michigan: Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Fellar Became a Legend - Rogers Paul Bunyan Fights the Monster Plants - Blassingame The Christmas Tree Ship The Log Cabin Church Mrs. Mack Minnesota: Follow the Stars: A Native American Woodlands Tale - Rodanas Legend of the Lady Slipper - Lunge-Larsen Sacred Harvest: Wild Rice - Reggiunti Mississippi: Freedom School, Yes! Oh Lord, I Wish I was a Buzzard Grandaddy's Gift Little Toot on the Mississippi Missouri: Mark Twain and Huck Finn - Ross River Boy: The Story of Mark Twain - Anderson Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi - Harness Mark Twain? What Kind of Name is That? Quackenbush (what kind of name is *that*?) Tom Sawyer, Danger in the Graveyard - Richardson Tom Sawyer Gives up the Brush (video - 30 minutes) Wagons West! Fiddlin' Sam Dengler There Goes Lowell's Party - Hershenhorn Montana: Once We Had a Horse Nebraska: Dandelions The Huckabuck Family Nevada: Tulip Sees America (covers several states) Any books on desert life, particularly the Mojave, would work for studying this state. Books on red rock canyonlands would also work. New Hampshire: Ox Cart Man (or is this Vermont?) Lucy's Summer Sara Whitcher's Story New Jersey: The Colony of New Jersey The 18 Penny Goose New Mexico: Josephina books Spanish and Colonial Santa Fe (video) Carlos and the Cornfield Cowboy's Roundup on an American Ranch Los Posadas: An Hispanic Christmas Celebration Grandmother's Adobe House New York: My New York How Pizza Came to Queens Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm The Inside-Outside Book of New York City Liberty The Story of the Statue of Liberty Joe and the Skyscraper Under New York North Carolina: Back Home My Great Aunt Arizona Mountain Boy The Colony of North Carolina The Jack Tales Grandfather's Land: We are Mountain People - Fitch North Dakota: River Friendly, River Wild - Kurtz Thrashin' Time: Harvest Days in the Dakotas Ohio: Aurora Means Dawn Lentil (Warm as Wool may fit better here than previously stated state) Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound Oklahoma: I Have Heard of a Land Angels in the Dust They Came From the Bronx: How the Buffalo Were Saved Oregon: Oregon's Journey Long Ago in Oregon Roughing it on the Oregon Trail Pennsylvania: Just Plain Fancy A Humble Life: Plain Poems The Folks in the Valley The Egg Tree The Colony of Pennsylvania Pioneer Church Bewildered for Three Days Punxatawney Phil Rhode Island: Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams The Colony of Rhode Island Loud and Crowing (Rhode Island Red roosters) Roger Williams and Rhode Island (video) South Carolina: Carolina Shout! The Colony of South Carolina South Dakota: Mount Rushmore (two titles) Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox - Bleeter Tennessee: Swamp Angel Davy Crockett (Rabbit Ears, w/ tape) Luck with Potatoes (do they grow these in Tennessee?) Texas: Legend of the Bluebonnet Beats Me, Claude Armadillo Rodeo Bluebonnet at Dinosaur Valley State Park Bubba the Cowboy Prince Susanna of the Alamo The Inside-Outside Book of Texas Armadillo from Amarillo The West Texas Chili Monster Jalepeno Hal The Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea Fish Fry Freedom's Gifts: A Juneteenth Story Ganzy Remembers Prairie Christmas A Cowboy Named Ernestine Utah: Salt Lake City - Doubleday Grandfather's Gold Watch Vermont: Least of All The Wonderful Hay Tumble Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf Snowflake Bentley Virginia: The Relatives Came When the Whipoorwill Calls One Christmas Dawn Appalachia: Voices of Sleeping Birds The Blue Hill Meadows Night in the Country This Year's Garden Washington: Island Time A Horse's Tale West Virginia: When I was Young in the Mountains In November But I'll be Back Again Scarecrow Silver Packages Waiting to Waltz Wisconsin: Giant Ball of String Dance at Grandpa's Christmas in the Big Woods Winter Days in the Big Woods The Deer in the Wood Going to Town Summertime in the Big Woods Wyoming: Tonweya and the Eagles - YellowRobe Lakota Hoop Dancer - LeftHandBull Iktomi and the Buzzard - Goble Jack Creek Cowboy Washington, D.C.: Capitol: Washington, D.C. From A to Z The White House The Wall Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. Puerto Rico: The Outside Dog Take a Trip to Puerto Rico Sergio and the Hurricane Abuelita's Paradise Virgin Islands: The Day the Hurricane Happened Izzard Pacific Territories: U.S. Territories and Possessions Pacific Islands Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina in WA Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 WOW! That is an awesome list! I was happy to see "A Horse's Tale" on the WA one. That book was awesome!!!!! I also purchased the teacher guide to go with it. It was a wonderful addition. Something else to use is Fifty States Under God. I used the WA State curriculum last year and LOVED it! I am sure this one is just as good. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 The Kingfisher Young People's Atlas of the United States is wonderful. There's a two page spread for each state that gives a map, lots of pictures, and lots of information about each state. My mom sat and read it one weekend when she was visiting, and couldn't put it down! She kept saying, "I never knew this!" It was funny. Anyway, it would be good for your age range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmom Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 I plan on using this one next year with my kids Don't know much about the 50 states I have this one. We love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddi Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Here's a free resource. Fill in your information and you'll receive via e-mail lots of links to information/quizzes, etc. on all 50 states over the course of 25 weeks Have any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Regena, This is an awesome list. Thanks so much for posting. Kathleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 Teddi, Thanks for sharing this resource! It looks great. Kathleen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denainms Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 thanks so much for printing your list..I am printing now. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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