Oklahoma

We really enjoyed learning about Cherokee and other Native American cultures in Oklahoma, as well as a variety of famous Oklahomans. The kids also enjoyed a science lesson about the makings of the Dust Bowl.

Books:

• The First Strawberries By Joseph Bruchac 

• Wilma's Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller (A Big Words Book) by Doreen Rappaport 

• Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Smith

• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell 

• We Are Still Here by Traci Sorell

• Fry Bread: A Native American Family by Kevin Noble Maillard 

• Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell

• Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford

• Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief

• A Primary Source History of the Dust Bowl by Rebecca Langston-George

• S is for Sooner: An Oklahoma Alphabet by Devin Scillian

• Oklahoma (A True Book: My United States) by Tamra B. Orr

• Tornadoes by Seymour Simon

• Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin

• Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley

• Blue Willow by Doris Gates

• The Buffalo Soldier by Sherry Garland

• Will Rogers: An American Legend by Francis Anthony Keating

• I Have Heard of a Land by Joyce Carol Thomas

• Leah’s Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich

• Jim Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac

• Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States by Louisa Jaggar

• Woodie Guthrie: Poet of the People by Bonnie Christensen

• Elizabeth Warren: Nevertheless, She Persisted by Susan Wood

• Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma Sit-ins

Art Project:

Tornado on the prairie

For Oklahoma the kids chose to depict a tornado over the prairie. We had a lot of fun with this project which was completed using oil pastels on watercolor paper.