Additional Learning Resources for The Trumpet of the Swan Art & Baking Guide Chapter 1: Sam
I have just added in a beautiful picture study of swans in a pond to this study, and for those who would like to download that one page, click the link below. The updated file is for sale in our TPT Shop.
Here are the extra resources for you and your students to enjoy while reading chapter 1 of the Trumpet of the Swan.
Vocabulary Words:
Canada
boggy
nest
Sam
eggs
swan
treacherous
rasp
Watch this lovely video of Trumpeters Swans building a Nest in Minnesota:
If you would like to watch more on Pond life, or gain inspiration for your art today, here are some more pond videos:
Art Project: Pond Art
Be inspired by the books about the pond, and allow your kids to draw or paint a picture of a pond.
Supplies:
Watercolor paint and paper
Method: Use the books we read today as inspiration to paint your own pond scene. What is in your pond? Optional: Start a night journal like Sam.
Recommended Unit Study: Adventures in France, Claude Monet Artist Study, coming soon!
Additional Books:
Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner
In the small, small pond by Denise Fleming
In the Pond by Ann Milbern
Pond by Jim LaMarche
Pond by Donald M. Silver
Be a Pond Detective by Peggy Kochanoff
Canada ABC by Paul Covello
The Bird Watchers by Simon James (Watch the only read aloud I could find of this book here.)
Make: Canadian Maple Cookies
Find Recipe in study.
Discussion Questions:
Sam Beaver sees somthing special on a lonely pond in Canada. What is it?
Does Sam tell his father about about the nest? If not, why not?
Sam feels that he he has two problems. What are they?
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Why do you think a fox barks?
If you would like to learn more about Foxes and their bark check out these things we found….
Do you want to hear what a fox bark sounds like? They have a few different kinds.
Now, after watching what those two people heard, what where the differences?