more on the 50 States

For our state-by-state lapbooks, I went to homeschoolshare.com and printed some of their Choose-A-Country Lapbook From their list (which, granted, is for global geography, and we're working on state-to-state) I printed the following (which, believe it or not, was only about 1/2 of what they had offered for countries):
People: name, population, history
Geography Tab: highest & lowest point, area & bodies of water
Borders Matchbooks: water border and land border (for state border or ocean border)
Famous Person Accordian: which we printed 3 per state
Capital Matchbook
Major Industries Flip Book
Can You Believe It? : which we printed 2 for cool facts

Then I searched on Ask.com for pictures of the state bird, state tree, state bug, and history of the state flag. I also got most of the state information from www.netstate.com/

Using the blank templates from www.homeschoolhelperonline.com I used the following:
Flag Shapes - to color in the state flag
Native Info - this is a little flip book on who the native inhabitants of the state were and what happened to them after European colonization.
I'll uplead the pic as soon as I find the cord to my digital camera (grr...lol)

50 States

Well we have a new computer in the mail...er...UPS..lol...on its way to our happy little home, so I'm waiting to upload the pictures (it's always something!)..

But as y'all know, we've been working on just about a state a week, with DJ doing the lapbooks. Here's my State Lapbooks...I hope you enjoy them!!

You can check out the vid here

50 Capitals Song

Well I've been trying to come up with a way of teaching the 50 states and their capitals to the boys. I finally decided to set them to the tune of Silent Night.

50 Capitals - via Silent Night


Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Indianapolis, Indiana,
Columbus, O-hi-o.
Montgomery, Alabama,
Helena, Montana
Denver, Colorado.


Boise, Idaho.
Austin, Texas
Boston, Massachusetts
Albany, New York.
Tallahassee, Florida
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nashville, Tennessee
These are state capitals.


Trenton, New Jersey
Jefferson, Missouri,
Richmond, Virginia,
Pierre, South Dakota
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Augusta, in Maine
Providence, Rhode Island
Dover, Delaware.


Concord, New Hampshire,
Montpelier, Vermont,
Hartford, Connecticut
Topeka, Kansas
St. Paul, Minnesota
Juneau, Alaska
Lincoln, Nebraska
Raleigh, North Carolina.


Madison, Wisconsin
Olympia, Washington,
Phoenix, Arizona,
Lansing, Michigan,
Honolulu, Hawaii,
Jackson, Mississip-pi,
Springfield, Illinois,
Columbia, South Carolina.


Annapolis, Maryland
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Salt Lake City, in Utah
Atlanta, Georgia
Bismarck, North Dakota,
Don’t forget about D.C.
These are the state capitals.


Frankfurt, Kentucky
Sa-lem, Oregon
Little Rock, Arkansas,
Des Moines, Iowa
Sacramento, California
These are the 50 states
And their capitals


Oklahoma City,
In Oklahoma
Charleston, West Virginia
Carson City, Nevada’s
Those were all the State Capitals.
And the US capital.
Bless the USA.