New Hampshire: Facts & Fun

New Hampshire is an interesting state to learn about.  They have a lot of granite in New Hampshire including the “Old Man of the Mountain” at Franconia Notch, where you can see the face of a man in a mountain. New Hampshire is also the Apple Cider state and I enjoyed learning about apple cider and how it is made.

New Hampshire Facts

Facts about New Hampshire:

• Capital: Concord
• Nickname: Granite State
• Statehood: June 21, 1788 (9th)
• Motto: Live free or die.
• Bird: Purple Finch
• Highest Point: Mt. Washington

Children’s Books by New Hampshire authors that we read:

• Robert Frost is from New Hampshire, so we read many of his poems including: Stars, My Butterfly, The Road Not Taken (one of my mom’s favorite poems), Evening in a Sugar Orchard, and Blue-Butterfly Day. I love poetry and enjoy writing poems too.
• I Invited a Dragon to Dinner and Other Poems to Make You Laugh out Loud. This book is full of very funny poems for children and the pictures are really funny too! I love this book.
• The Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall. This is a Caldecott Medal winning book with terrific illustrations. A family works throughout the year on their farm, spinning wool, making candles, collecting maple syrup, to provide for the family.
• The Milkman’s Boy byDonald Hall. This is the story of a family who owned a dairy and learned about the importance of pasteurizing milk when their daughter became sick. I like the pictures.

Animals from New Hampshire that I learned about:

Moose by Emily

We read several books about the Moose this week. Some of the books were funny, like If you Gave a Moose a Muffin, Ernest the Moose who Doesn’t Fit and Chocolate Moose. Others were serious books about the animal including: Moose by Ann Squire, Moose by Jenny Markert, and The Wonder of Moose by Rita Richie.  I learned that the moose is the largest deer species and they graze for food. In the winter, they even eat pinecones!

Other common animals in New Hampshire include: Whale, chickadee, purple finch, turtle, bobcat, bears, and many more!

Fun things I learned about New Hampshire:

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  Uncle Sam

  My Uncle Sam grew up in New Hampshire AND “Uncle Sam” the mascot for the United States was created in New Hampshire! According to “The Slightly Odd United States of America,” in 1812, Samuel Wilson, a supplier for the U.S. Army from Mason, New Hampshire, labeled his army goods “U.S.” and the soldiers started to say that meant “Uncle Sam Wilson.”

• Alan Shepard, the first American in space, is from New Hampshire and he even golfed in space.
• Sarah Joseph Hale is from New Hampshire and she helped persuade President Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

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