We learned that Kansas is home to the Tall Grass Prairie National Preserve which is both lovely and tragic as it represents such a small piece of what once was a seemingly endless sea of prairie land. We did enjoy learning more about the prairie ecosystem and the efforts that people are going to to preserve and even rebuild some pieces of it.
Books:
No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and his Kingdom in Kansas by Tonya Bolden
S is for Sunflower: A Kansas Alphabet
The Buffalo Are Back by Jean Craighead George
Kansas (My United States: A True Book) by Josh Gergory
From Seed to Sunflower by Gerald Legg
Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement by A. LaFaye
Sewing the Rainbow: The Story of Gilbert Baker and the Rainbow Flag by Gayle E. Pitman
I am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer
Who Was Amelia Earhart by Kate Boehm Jerome
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
That Is My Dream!: A picture book of Langston Hughes's "Dream Variation"
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes by Floyd Cooper
Art Project:
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| Sunflower fields |
Kansas is the sunflower state, famous for its sunflower fields, so that is what we chose for our art project. Materials used: colored sharpie for the outlines, oil pastel to color in flowers and leaves, watercolor for the green background of the field and for the sky.
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