Chapter 16: Philadelphia

Vocabulary Words:

September

Philadelphia

zoo

musician

telegram

splashdown

lagoon

birds

proposition

job offer

Art Project:  Philadelphia Artists Spotlight

Click here to learn about our Emilie Ledieu & Miriam Singer, our two featured Philadelphia Artists, and their beautiful Philadelphia Landscape Mosaic Art. Once you learn about them, and their art, create your own inspired art project! Scroll down the Art Gallery’s Page to find their info, and a video about their project, inspired by Philadelphia’s Rivers, called River to River.

Use the included Philadelphia’s city Skyline Printable as a starting point for your art project today.

Bake: Philly-Style Soft Pretzels

Find recipe in the study guide. Read the book: Walter the Baker by Eric Carle

Watch this video to help you with the techniques:

Ever wonder how Pretzels are made at the Philly Pretzel Factory? Watch this:

Additional Books:

On the Loose in Philadelphia by Sage Stossel

Larry Gets Lost in Philadelphia by John Skewes

The Liberty Bell by Mary Lynn Firestone

Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Suess

123 to the Zoo by Eric Carle

A View from the Zoo by Kathleen Long Bostrom

Put me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire

Walter the Baker by Eric Carle

Discussion Questions:

Let's find Philadelphia on your USA Map.

Why must Louis get a different job?

What does being pinioned mean?

What must Louis do every week in payment for not being pinioned?

What are the names of the 3 other Trumpeter Swans that Louis was waiting to meet?

Louis will be paid $500  week, for 10 weeks. How many dollars does Louis stand to make with his new job?