Wisconsin

For Wisconsin, the kids especially enjoyed Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic, Little House in the Big Woods as a depiction of life in the Northern Wisconsin wilderness, but we also enjoyed reading about a wide variety of people with Wisconsin roots.

Books:

• Wisconsin (My United States: A True Book) by Vicky Franchino

• B is for Badger: A Wisconsin Alphabet by Kathy-Jo Wargin

• Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler

• The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright by K.L. Going

• Prairie Boy by Barb Rosenstock

• Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? By Ellen Labrecque

• The Raft by Jim LaMarche

• Time for Cranberries by Lisl H. Detlefsen

• The Giant Ball of String by Arthur Geisert

• Rascal by Sterling North

• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright

• Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan

• Colin Kaepernick by Blake Hoena

• Farmer Will Allen and the growing table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

• Swinging for the fences: Hank Aaron and me by Mike Leonetti

• Remembering Green by Lisa Gammon Olson and Lauren Rutledge

• The Hundred-Year Barn by Patricia MacLachlan

• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? By Patricia Demuth

• Harry Houdini: Escape Artist by Patricia Lakin

• Article on Aldo Leopold, Enviromnentalist https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Aldo-Leopold/314961 

• Mini Bio on Dr Howard Temin, Nobel scientist whose work ultimately helped with the development of AIDs medication and more recently COVID vaccines https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1975/temin/facts/ 

• Rhino in Right Field by Stacy DeKeyser

• Goldie Takes a Stand by Barbara Krasner

• Milwaukee Art Museum, especially the Santiago Calatrava wing: https://mam.org/info/quadracci.php 

• In Mary’s Garden by Tina Kugler

Art:

Wisconsin Cranberry Bog

For Wisconsin the kids decided to depict a cranberry bog. Materials included tempra paint (cranberries and trees), water color (sky and water), and oil pastel (grass). The cranberry effect was made by dotting q-tips with various shades of red tempra paint.