State Study: Maine

Since we visited Maine for the first time in August, I decided that was the state we would begin with. It's too bad we can't visit every state as we study it. It was really neat to see the things we read about in our books.

Books we read about Maine:

Counting Our Way to Maine
This is Maine
The Little Island
Surrounded by Sea
One Morning in Maine
Blueberries for Sal
Time of Wonder
Discovering Crabs and Lobsters
Miss Rumphius
Maine (From Sea to Shining Sea)
Moose- Lesley A. DuTemple
Maine - William Berchen
See list of books I'm using for all states here.


Sheets for state binders

Molly

Caleigh

Colin

While we were in Maine, Molly saw a lobster and sailboat cookie cutter set she wanted. We used them to make sugar cookies.

Rolling out dough

cutting a lobster shape

cutting out a sailboat shape

Some of the finished products

See my plans for our state studies here.

Our Visit to Maine

This is my final post about our trip to Maine so it's just a hodgepodge of pictures.

I've already posted about visiting the Maine Wildlife Park, going to a chocolate factory, and seeing the beautiful lighthouses.

 

Len Libby Chocolates and Candies

This was at the top of the kids' list of things to do when we were planning. They just had to see the moose.

Meeting Lenny

Lenny: a life-size chocolate moose

The girls got to touch lobsters and starfish.

 

 

 

 

The girls on the beach

 

I wasn't fast enough to get a good picture. Molly throwing bucket of water on Colin.

View from beach

 

 

Eartha, the world's largest rotating and revolving globe

 

Caleigh with a tiny globe chocolate

L.L. Bean

 

Harbor where we had lunch one day

 

This is where Colin spent most of his time during our week in Maine. I was worried he would feel like he was missing out if we did things with the girls while he was at camp. He was so excited to go to camp every day and was sad when it over. He just loved it.

 



He's in the middle of the pic in red



Maine Lighthouses

We got to visit two lighthouses on our trip to Maine.


Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth

Portland Head Light is the oldest lighthouse in Maine. We took the girls here one day while Colin was at hockey camp. They thought it was so nice that they insisted we take him back to see it. So we went another evening so he could see it and so we could get some family pictures. This is where all the pictures in the header at the top of the page were taken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse


We visited the beach and then walked over to see the lighthouse. The kids loved the walk out to get to this lighthouse. I think it was one of their favorite parts of the trip. It made me a bit nervous though.

 

 

Chocolate Factory- Maine

On our last day in Maine, we had a little time to kill after lunch before picking Colin up from hockey camp. We stopped at Wilbur's of Maine Chocolate Confections to let the girls look at the candy. When we got there, we found they had an event going on where you could make your own peppermint patty bugs and butterflies. We all put on hair nets and the girls each made two different creatures.

Girls in front of the chocolate factory

Lots of different candies to make their creations

Caleigh decorating her creations

All bagged up and ready to take home

Close up of Caleigh's

Molly making her creations

Had to try a little leftover candy

All finished



Close up of Molly's