Author and Illustrator- Lauren Mills
Summary- Minna needs a coat for school,and finds acceptance through forgiveness and wisdom.
While reading The Rag Coat we did many exciting activities and read many other great stories. Check out what we did!!
Social Studies-(Geography,Appalachian culture)
The book The Rag Coat was set in the eastern United States. We Put our story disk on the eastern part of the US. Lily and Aj Located the Appalachian mountains on the map. They put construction paper on the map were the mountain range is. The Application mountain region has is own unique culture. When reading through the book we looked at the pictures and pointed out the unusual items we found. (example- wagons,overalls,one-roomed school house,oil lamps....etc) We also watched a video called Christy which is set in the appalachin mountains in the 1930's.
Maping the Appalachian mountains
Books and movies
Art-(Quilts)
Lily and Aj had fun making their own rag coat like in the book. We cut up material from old clothes and glued them on a large pieces of paper. They also made collages using the extra material. Reading books about quits was enjoying too!
Our rag coat Quilt
Paper and materials collages
Books we read about quilting
Language-(stories, alphabet)
We learned about stories and how they are passed down in families. Making quilts are another way people pass down stories. We made our own pictures using construction paper. Then Lily and Aj told stories about them. We also made our own play dough so we could make our names and work on the letters of the alphabet.
Making pictures to tell stories
Homemade play dough to do letters
Other stories we read,watched and listened to
Mathematics-(Geometric Shapes)
When sewing a quilt Like in the book The Rag Coat their are many shapes that are used in the quilt patterns. Lily and Aj used foam blocks to design pictures and patterns. We also used play dough to make shapes like cube, cone and sphere.
Patterns and pictures using foam blocks
Making Shapes with Play Dough
Science-(Coal)
In the The Rag Coat, Minnia's Father is a coal miner. We borrowed books from the library and watched u-tube videos about coal and coal mining. Lily and Aj learned how important coal mining is to american history. Even though Coal mining is an important part of our history we also learned about the pollution coal mining causes. Lily and Aj examined samples of coal. We learned about the different kinds of coal. Pretending to be a coal miner and digging up pretend coal was fun for both Lily and Aj.
Examining coal
Pretending to coal mine using dirt,paper clips and magnet wands
We watched two U-tube movie about how coal was made
Books we read
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