This week, the local county fair is coming to our town, so I thought it would be the perfect time to row Daniel’s Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla. This is a FIAR selection about a little boy named Daniel whose feelings get hurt when he hears people laughing at the duck he carved for the county fair.
This book takes place in our very own state, Tennessee! So, we will spend a little time learning a little bit more about our own state. We will color the flag, the state bird – mockingbird and the state flower – iris.
We are also going to spend a day learning about someone famous who came from Tennessee – Davy Crockett. We will be reading A Picture Book of Davy Crockett and watching the Disney movie made about him.
Finally, we will also be reading several books about the county fair and taking a field trip there one day!
A few other things we will be doing this week along with Daniel’s Duck:
*For language arts we will be learning about quotation marks. Our copywork will contain part of a conversation containing quotation marks.
*I will pull out the lincoln logs (which have been rotated up to the closet) for us to build our own log cabin – Daniel in the story lived in a cabin, as did Davy Crockett.
*HERE is a printable page that your kids can color and glue onto a shoe box to make a log cabin.
*HERE is a log cabin coloring page.
*HERE is another log cabin coloring page, which also has the word in Engligh and Spanish – perfect, since we are still working on learning a few new spanish words each week!
*A project suggested in the FIAR manual is to let your child practice carving, since Daniel carved a duck for the county fair. Well, ours are definitey too little for carving with wood, but the suggestion is given for smaller children to use a butter knife on a bar of soap. I may get this out and try it…but am not sure if they are still too small for this or not.
*Being that we are in TN, and actually east TN where Davy Crockett was from, there is a Davy Crockett museum in our area. I’m going to look at the directions and see how far it would be from our house and ask around to get an idea of if this is good for small children or not. I would love it if this worked out to be something good for us to do this week!
* To tie in with Davy Crockett, here are some lessons/unit studies on tall tales from HSS.
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