2 nd Grade Sarah Plain and Tall Research From the Coast of Maine to the Plains of Kansas By the 2 nd Grade Reading Enrichment Students Facilitator: Mrs.

Maddy Pellymonter

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ResearchResearchFrom the Coast of Maine to the Plains of From the Coast of Maine to the Plains of

KansasKansasBy the 2By the 2ndnd Grade Reading Enrichment Grade Reading Enrichment

StudentsStudentsFacilitator: Mrs. FiedlerFacilitator: Mrs. Fiedler

Maddy Pellymonter

United States Map Showing Maine & Kansas

Evan

MAINE

MAINE – the 23rd State

Leads the US inmaking toothpicks

More than 60 lighthouses

in MaineGood Lobster

Chloe

Facts About Maine• Maine is on the Atlantic Ocean• Maine is a cold place• Maine has a lot of mountains• A lot of people go to Maine on

vacation and buy t-shirts & mugs• Maine is the Pine Tree State

Chloe

More Facts about Maine

• The state cat is the Coon Cat• The state bird is the Chickadee

Isabel

Maine State Flower & Lobster

White Pine Cone & Tassel

Maine Lobster

Maddy Pellymonter

Maine

• The population of Maine is 1,227,928

• The capital of Maine is Augusta

Chloe

Isabel

Maine• Maine is the 23rd State. • It became part of the United States on

March 15, 1820.• Maine has lots of rocky shores, vast

green forests, sparkling lakes, flowing rivers and rounded mountains.

• Maine was part of the Underground Railroad

Isabel

Things to See & Do in Maine

• Hike, bike or skateboard on the Kennebec Trail.

Madi

More to do in Maine• Visit the state’s only national park

Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island.

• Swim, hike, bike, eat lobster, shop

Evan

Famous People from Maine

Milton Bradley• He invented many

board games.• “Life”• “Candyland”• “Battleship”• Invented the

paper cutter

E.B White - Author

• He lived in Maine for 40 years.

• Charlotte’s Web • Stuart Little • The Trumpet of

the Swan

Evan

More Famous People from Maine

Abbie Burgess• Did the work of

keeping the Lighthouse at Matinicus Rock lit.

Winslow Homer• Famous American

landscape painter and printer

Evan

Fish Jumping out of the Water in Maine

Chloe

A Lighthouse in Maine

Maddy Pellymonter

Madi

Madi

Kansas• Capital is Topeka• Population is

2,594,840• It became part of

the United States through the Louisiana Purchase in 1861

Madi

The State Bird & State Flower

• State Flower is Native Sunflower

•State Bird is the Western Meadowlark

Madi

Kansas• Corn & hay grow well in Kansas

• Kansas has lots of tall grass

• Eastern Kansas receives twice as much rain as Western Kansas

Zach

Things to See & Do in Kansas

• The Kansas Vietnam Memorial Fountain in Junction City, which is near Fort Riley

• The Statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Abilene.

Zach

More Things to Do in Kansas

• Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson.

• Go to a Jayhawks game at the University of Kansas in Lawrence

Zach

Famous People from Kansas

Carrie Nation• Leader in the

temperance movement to outlaw production & sale of alcoholic beverages

Robert (Bob) Dole

• Fought in WWII• Kansas senator,

serving as floor leader

• Ran for president

Zach

Vietnam Memorial in

Kansas