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Texas State Symbols unit study
Product: flip book using plastic photo album & 4"x6" notecards. The book is a way to learn art and observation skills while learning facts about Texas. For each…
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Flip Book
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Food made with pecans and made in Texas
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History of grapefruit industry in Texas
Preschool Music
Teaching Music
Teaching Tips
Kansas Day
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Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs by Deborah Hopkinson (as is typical with this artist, sensitive families might want to skip the 4th page to the end.
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reading, & writing & arithmetic...math: reading dates, even/odd numbers. writing: tracers of names of symbols. reading: finished product, listening to read aloud books. social studies: state culture, geography, agriculture. civics: The symbols must be approved by lawmakers from the House of Representatives, the Senate and finally, the Governor of Texas. Applied art & eye-hand coordination: drawing, tracing, coloring, cutting
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Texas State Symbols unit study
Building Front
Capitol Building
Texas State Capitol
Adoption Agencies
Great Vacations
Texas Homes
Free Things To Do
Leaning Tower Of Pisa
Taj Mahal
Day 1 The symbols must be approved by lawmakers from the House of Representatives, the Senate and finally, the Governor of Texas (relate to “capitol days” and State Representative). Snack was jalapeno so we added that to the book. 8yo is so giddy.
States In America
United States
Ebooks Online
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Us Geography
Guide Words
Ohio Map
Usa Map
Day 1 Read aloud The United States of America: A State-by-State Guide by Millie Miller (very pleasant art). In the book find Texas flag and Texas on USA map and symbols. Find symbols In the “T” Encyclopedia (have young student choose the volume and begin guide word/alphabetic skills to find “Texas”; discuss how symbols used to just be bird, flower, tree), start flipbook.
Lady Bird Johnson
Living Books
Texas History
Reading Levels
Teaching Science
Teaching Ideas
Women In History
Read Aloud
First Lady
Day 2 Book to read aloud Miss Ladybird’s Wildflowers; add to book: bluebonnet, mockingbird, tree/nut, snack hot sauce and chips & chile for dinner w/ diced onions (really too much for one day but we wanted to get alot done)
Vintage Children's Books
Vintage Posters
Vintage Travel
Western Posters
Retro Posters
Vintage Kids
Modern Vintage
Retro Vintage
Rodeo
Day 3 read aloud book: This is Texas. Add to book: song, motto, Grapefruit (eaten at bfast), visited HEB’s “Tex-Fest”, a day of sampling of food produced in Texas.
Texas Theme
Texas Map
Moving To Texas
Alphabet Writing
Lone Star State
History Class
Alamo
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Day 4 read aloud book: L is for Lone Star: A Texas Alphabet (We read just the poetic stanzas for continuity and interest; I would refer to the sidebars myself to add if needed); Add to book--mammals: longhorn, armadillo, bat; snack of sopapillas
Read Aloud Books
Gulf Of Mexico
Study Unit
Line Drawing
Lizard
Day 5 read aloud book What swims in Texas Water, add to book: fish, lizard, butterfly Day 6 add to book: shell, stone, gem, grass & back cover
4th Grade Social Studies
Homeschool Social Studies
Homeschool Geography
Social Studies Activities
Teaching Social Studies
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Front cover: shape of Texas (cut/paste shape from this page), 1845 shape of state, label capital Austin and hometown and write date of statehood (1845). Ongoing: When appropriate, show on Texas shape on front cover where in Texas the symbol can be found; like gem southwest of Austin, grapefruit in South TX valley, stone in East Texas woods.
pg. 1 flag , 1845 (cut/paste just the flag into the flip book)
Spring Art
Spring Crafts
Diy And Crafts
Crafts For Kids
Arts And Crafts
Texas Crafts
Fingerprint Crafts
Texas Art
Finger Painting
pg. 2 wildflower--bluebonnet, 1901. We used gouache (without water) and it dried fast, fingers for blue, brush for white, yogurt lid for palette, green marker for stem.; plant bluebonnets seeds for next year.
Brag Book
Pocket Photo Album
Dollar Tree Organization
Mini Photo Albums
Instagram Prints
Message Of Hope
Party Pictures
Supplies: flip book, colored pencils, pencil, felt tip pen, eraser, scissors/paper cutter, 4”x6” notecards. Mom erased tracer lines after felt tip pen ink had tried and while student glued or colored.
Tree Coloring Page
Flower Coloring Pages
Texas Symbols
Amazing Flowers
pg. 3 tree --pecan (visit Pecan orchard), 1919, nut Pecan, 2001
Pretty Birds
Love Birds
Beautiful Birds
Different Birds
Kinds Of Birds
Bird Life List
Mocking Birds
State Birds
Bird Watcher
pg. 4 Use this Cornell site to listen to the Mockingbird and for a photo model to study while coloring. If you hear a bird repeat a call three or four times, change its tune and repeat different calls several times, then you probably have a mockingbird nearby. When it flies off, see if you can spot a white line across the top of its tail.
pg. 4 bird--mockingbird, 1927.Book to read aloud Texas Birds A-Z (looked at every bird but only read mockingbird entry). We cut out the bird from this page and pasted in our flip book.
Elementary Art Projects
School Art Projects
Kids Art Projects
Teaching Drawing
Teaching Art
Easter Art
Easter Crafts For Kids
Painting For Kids
pg. 5 motto: friendship (teach this technique for lettering) use 2 thicknesses of markers, red and blue colored pencil
Clarinet Sheet Music
Old Sheet Music
Song Sheet
Digital Sheet Music
Piano Music
Types Of Pianos
Online Music Lessons
Texas Music
pg. 6 Song --"Texas our Texas" (learn and sing for family, first verse, discuss other songs considered--don’t slight this for the student that loves songs) sheet music, (print out words and glue to card or cut out the sheet music staff with the words and tune and glue onto 4x6 card); listen on-line; play on piano. more facts here http://www.texasourtexas.info/
Guided Drawing
Drawing Lessons
Art Lessons
Video Lessons
Animal Art Projects
Desert Art Projects
Desert Crafts
Drawing For Kids
pg. 7 small mammal armadillo, 1995
Normal School
Printable Coloring Sheets
Longhorn
Mammals
pg. 8 large mammal--longhorn, 1995 google model images
Draw A Bat
Dracula
Types Of Art
9 flying mammal--bat,1995 (for a bigger project "how to draw a bat" http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/search?q=bat)
Butterfly Plants
Butterfly Drawing
Butterfly Painting
Butterfly Wallpaper
Monarch Butterfly
Butterfly On Flower
Beautiful Butterflies
Beautiful Flowers
Beautiful Bugs
pg. 10 insect-- monarch (we printed used this and colored over it), build with monarch connectagons, 1995, plant milkweed/butterfly plant bought from nursery
Horned Lizard
Tcu Horned Frogs
Frog Coloring Pages
Coloring Books
Row Quilt
pg. 11 lizard--horned toad (used to be all over north Waco where TCU was before Fort Worth) . www.exploringnature.org has an image of labeled anatomy. facts:http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/reptiles/tx_horned_lizard.htm
