Monday, April 17, 2023

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.  

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