For New Jersey, we especially enjoyed reading about baseball, listening to some Frank Sinatra tunes, and reading poems by William Carlos Williams.
Books:
G is for Garden State by Eileen Cameron
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story by Audrey Vernick
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas Yezerski
The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution by Jim Murphy
The Legend of the Cape May Diamond
New Jersey (My United States: A True Book) by Nel Yomtov
Sand in My Shoes by Wendy Ann Kesselman
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick
The Ballot Box Battle by Emily Arnold McCully
Heroes of the Surf by Elisa Carbone
Night of the Moonjellies by Mark Shasha
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Who Is Judy Blume? By Kirsten Anderson
16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Lisa Jean Rogers
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant
Paul Robeson by Eloise Greenfield
Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson story by Susan Robeson
Frankie Liked to Sing by John Seven
Article: https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/hhmblog/baseball-hoboken-brief-history/
Thomas Edison by Mike Venezia (or any Edison book)
Art Project:
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| Knobbed Whelks on the Jersey Shore |
For New Jersey the kids decided to depict knobbed whelks (the official state shell!) on the Jersey Shore. Primarily made using colored sharpie and oil pastel, with water color for the water.
