Hi everyone! Well, with the holidays over, weโ€™re back on track with our Road Trip USA. This week weโ€™re visiting Rhode Island!

 

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Here are some of the things we covered this week:

  • Located Providence, RI on our Wall Map
  • State Capital: Providence
  • State Bird: The Rhode Island Red Chicken
  • State Flower: The Common Blue Violet
  • State Sailing Vessel: โ€œThe Providenceโ€
  • Famous People: Ann Smith Franklin
  • The Breakers Vanderbuilt Mansion
  • Food: Coffee Milk, we didnโ€™t actually sample this since you can only get it there and I donโ€™t actually let my kids have anything with caffeine in itโ€ฆsans chocolate of course ;o)
  • Added our animals to our classification wall
  • Sang our 50 States Song
  • We finished up our time by reading โ€œIf You Were There When They Signed the Constitutionโ€.

Here are the things I managed to take pictures of:

We started off by adding the Rhode Island flag to our Travel Journal (The travel journal and flags are included in the curriculum).

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We did a sail boat craft. Weโ€™ve done this like 3 times now, and Iโ€™m telling you it never gets old! The kids love creating their boats, then testing them out. Iโ€™ve noticed they are getting better at getting them to float successfully!

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Since Rhode Island is so small, I didnโ€™t cut it apart, so we just re-added our pile of NE states to the map.

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Of course we learned about all the state facts, then colored in our Rhode Island worksheet:

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We read our Rhode Island atlas, and then used the map coordinates to find Providence.

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The Teeny Tot was itching to help out, so we let her add Rhode Island to our state wall.

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Then we added in our animals to our classification wall. Iโ€™m thinking I should have made the โ€œbirdโ€ area a little bigger, but weโ€™ll re-adjust as we go.

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Hereโ€™s the Teeny Tot finding the animals on our wall.

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And that wraps up our Rhode Island study! If youโ€™d like to come along with us on our Road Trip USA journey, click the image below to learn more!

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8 Comments

  1. We are learning our 50 states and capitols right now. I have been debating on if I should go more in depth with the states or memorize the overseas continents and so on next year. I am talking it over with my husband. I will definitely mention this to him though because it looks like so much fun!

  2. I have been looking over all the US Geography Curriculum thats out there and yours looks like it is the best suited for my younger learners (K and 2). I think I am ready to purchase but could you send me the additional reading list? I am part of a Charter School that purchases non-sectarian items for us… I would like to get as many from your list thru them as I can.

    Thanks,
    Adrienne

    adrienne

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