Vermont

 The kids loved learning about the maple sugaring process (both traditional and contemporary) as part of our Vermont study, and of course we had to indulge in some pancakes with quality maple syrup as part of the unit! :)

Books:

• Vermont (My United States: A True Book) by Jennifer Hackett

• M is for Maple Syrup: A Vermont Alphabet by Cynthia Furlong Reynolds

• Almost Time by Gary Schmidt

• Spring Thaw by Steven Schnur

• Sugaring by Jessie Haas

• Tricking the Tallyman by Jacqueline Davies

• Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

• John Deere, That's Who! By Tracy Nelson Maurer

• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

• The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z by Kate Messner

• Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

• Kitty and Mr. Kipling by Lenore Blegvad

• Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys

• Soup by Robert Newton Peck

• Nora’s Ark by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

• Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

Art Project:

Maple Sugar Bush

For Vermont the kids wanted to depict a sugarbush (Maple grove) at sugaring time (in the late winter when sap begins to rise and maple syrup is made). Made with sharpie, oil pastel, and water color, plus some Colorations Make it Shimmer, to help give the snow a beautiful shiny glow (which is not adequately captured on camera).