We allowed a bit of extra time for California since its our home state and we had a lot of material. We'd hoped to do some local field trips as well, but with the COVID surge near its peak, that was not an option. Luckily we will have future opportunities to visit local places.
Books:
G is for Golden a California Alphabet
C Is for California: Written by Kids for Kids
Ancient Ones: The World of the Old-Growth Douglas Fir by Barbara Bash
Redwoods by Jason Chin
Joshua Tree National Park (Rookie National Parks) by Jodie Shepard
Yosemite National Park (Rookie National Parks) by Audra Wallace
A Monument to Treasure by Debbie Bertram and Susan Bloom
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
(Technically, Chavez was from AZ but we missed the opportunity there, and it made sense thematically to talk about in CA)
Side by Side/Lado a lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez by Monica Brown
Who Was Sally Ride? By Megan Stine
Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman in Space by Tam O'Shaughnessy
I am Jackie Robinson (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer
California's Indian Nations by Ben Nussbaum
Life of the California Coast Nations by Molly Aloian & Bobbie Kalman
The Chumash (Spotlight on the American Indians of California) by Dorothy Jennings
The Tongva (Spotlight on the American Indians of California) by Mary Graham
The California Gold Rush by Jean Blashfield
Spanish Missions of California by Megan Gendell
Dream Something Big: The Story of the Watts Towers, Dianna Hutts Aston
Antsy Ansel by Cynthia L. Jenson-Elliott
Fish for Jimmy by Katie Yamasaki
Art Project:
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| California Golden Poppies |
We considered a few other options: Redwoods (but how would we manage to show their scale and majesty?), or Joshua Trees (the girls wanted to actually see them first, since that's something we can do at some point), before settling on fields of golden poppies as our goal for this art project. After searches we settled on this project and this art piece on Etsy as inspiration. We looked at lots of photos (do a google image search) of golden poppies and finally used this youtube video for a tutorial on drawing the flowers (although we thought the color choice was off, so we didn't follow exactly). Then we designed our project - first sketching in pencil, then doing the outlines using black sharpie. For the stems and small buds we used colored sharpies. Then we used several colors of orange and yellow oil pastel for the flowers themselves, and various green oil pastels for the field and hills. Finally we used watercolors for the sky.
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