New Jersey

 For New Jersey, we especially enjoyed reading about baseball, listening to some Frank Sinatra tunes, and reading poems by William Carlos Williams.

Books:

• G is for Garden State by Eileen Cameron

• She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick

• Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas Yezerski

• The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution by Jim Murphy

• The Legend of the Cape May Diamond

• New Jersey (My United States: A True Book) by Nel Yomtov

• Sand in My Shoes by Wendy Ann Kesselman

• Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick

• The Ballot Box Battle by Emily Arnold McCully

• Heroes of the Surf by Elisa Carbone

• Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

• Who Is Judy Blume? By Kirsten Anderson

• 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Lisa Jean Rogers

• A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant

• Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield

• Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson story by Susan Robeson

• Frankie Liked to Sing by John Seven

• Article: https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/hhmblog/baseball-hoboken-brief-history/ 

• Thomas Edison by Mike Venezia (or any Edison book)

Art Project:

Knobbed Whelks on the Jersey Shore

For New Jersey the kids decided to depict knobbed whelks (the official state shell!) on the Jersey Shore. Primarily made using colored sharpie and oil pastel, with water color for the water.