Climbing Kansas Mountains
Climbing Kansas Mountains by George Shannon
A young boy and his father share the magic of climbing the "Kansas mountains."
Why are we featuring this book?
Climbing Kansas Mountains is a book featured in Five in a Row, a literature-based unit study curriculum. Many families use FIAR for all but the Grammar / Reading and Math, and others use it in conjunction with other resources. Below you will find information about the author and illustrator, story summaries, and links to lesson plans and websites that are great go-alongs for Climbing Kansas Mountains. Please note that these resources are meant to complement, not replace, the Five in a Row units. The Five in a Row volumes are inexpensive and well worth the investment. Digital downloads of the FIAR volumes and supplementary resources like Fold & Learn™ (paper manipulatives similar to lapbooks) are available to enhance your units.
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Author page
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Other books by Thomas B. Allen
Go-Alongs:
Online Units and Resources for Climbing Kansas Mountains
Supplemental Book List
from the FIAR Message Board Archive (T)
Go-alongs about Grain
Cereal grains - Students will learn the basics about cereal grains. They will learn the main seven types of grains, the nutritional value found in cereal, and they will cook with a grain. (Y,M)
Healthy whole grains - Selection of grain resources from the Kansas State Research and Extension Office (Y, M, O, T)
ND Wheat Commission - From the ND Wheat Commission, this site has a downloadable activity book for ages 5-7 and a twenty page lesson and activity book for ages 8 and up explaining how wheat is grown, marketed, and used by consumers. (Y,M,T)
The whole grain guide - lesson on what whole grains are and the health implications of avoiding them (Y, M, O, T)
Whole grains lesson plan - Scroll down to see the lessons; created for older adults but well-suited for use with children (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Poetry
A Journey To Japan Through Poetry - Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. Grade 3 (Y)
Autumn Haiku Lesson Plan - Grade 3 (Y)
FREE Online Rhyming Dictionary - My daughter loves using this online tool when writing poetry. Just put any word in the form and specify whether you want results with end rhymes, first syllable rhymes, last syllable rhymes, beginning rhymes, or double rhymes. Your child is sure to find a word to use in their poetry or limerick from the results (Y, M, O, T)
Haiku - Grade Levels: 3 - 6. Students learn the syllable structure and mood of haiku poems by comparing the serenity of the autumn months with the peaceful rhythms of haiku poetry. (Y)
Haiku and Beyond - A Study of Japanese Literature - by Denver Public Schools. Grade 4 (Y)
Internet Connection Activities - Moon Phases, Daily Life in Japan, Japan's Geography Topics, Poets and Poetry. Grade 4. (Y)
Madeline.com - The official Madeline website for Ludwig Bemelmans' classic Madeline children's books. (Y)
Modern American Poetry - MAPS=Modern American Poetry Site. Includes more than 30,000 pages of critical essays, images, biographies, and syllabi relating to 161 poets. (Y, M, O, T)
Poetry Class - PoetryTeachers.com provides easy-to-follow instructions on how to teach your students to write different types of funny poems. The lessons are written by published children's poets and include fun examples along with the suggestions. (Y, M, O, T)
Poets Org. - Support American poets (Y, M, O, T)
Rhyme with - Internet rhyming dictionary. Warning - program does not edit content for words some consider inappropriate. (Y, M, O, T)
Sea Life Poetry - Using Internet resources listed with the lesson plan, students discover oceans and sea life and use this material for different forms of poetry. Good way to integrate language arts into an ocean unit study. (Y,M)
Songs of the Pueblo Indians - (Y, M)
The Digital Dante - Contains the original Italian version of The Divine Comedy and two English translations. The site also includes The Convivio in English as well as several other works in Italian and Latin. Don't miss the text of Milton's Paradise Lost. (Y, M, O, T)
The Mosaic Curriculum - Free curriculum guides combining history, geography, literature, poetry memorization, world religions and more, by using living books, websites, hands on activities, and other resources. Free manuals include daily lesson plans for 180 days. Helpful checklists and shopping lists. Timelines unit study is provided. (Y, M, O, T)
Wired for Books - Poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults. (Y, M, O, T)
Wired for Books: Poetry Online - Listen to readings of poems many by the original authors. (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Maps
Action Quiz » Geography - Do this free geography quiz and let’s see how much you know about geography. Can you tell a country or city by a marking on a map of Africa, Asia, America, Oceania, Europe, the USA or the World? And how well do you know country shapes? Or capital cities? Other geography themes include license plates, flags, left driving countries, airlines and currencies. Each of these fun and free geo quizzes contain plenty of questions, so you can play this geography game again and again. Besides, your play against other computer opponents every time, so each geo quiz you take is a new challenge. Will you make it to the geography quiz final and win? (Y, M, O, T)
Animated Atlas - Animated Atlas portrays large chapters of American history quickly by animating maps and geographic features. For school, home and genealogy use. (Y, M, O, T)
Atlapedia Online - Contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world (Y, M, O, T)
Blank map of United States - (Y, M, O, T)
d-maps.com - d-maps.com contains over 5000 maps, each one available in GIF, PDF, CDR, AI, SVG and WMF. There is no cost for any of the maps. (Y, M, O, T)
Enchanted Learning Geography - Dozens of map and geography resources for elementary students. (Y)
Geosense - Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against another online player (Y, M, O, T)
Historic Map Collection - This collection of maps made available online by the Library of Congress can complement history studies or may be just plain fun. I quickly found a 150 year old map of my city by browsing the maps geographically. The zoom controls and map navigation are not intuitive, but there are instructions on each map page explaining how to pan around the maps. It is fun to compare the old maps to the way development has changed the landscape. It is also easy for students to see the clear importance of important modes of transportation such as rivers and railroads over time. (Y, M, O, T)
Lizard Point Geoquiz - Test your Geography Knowledge Click on an area of the map to select a quiz (Y, M, O, T)
MapMachine - Satellite, street maps and more in our online atlas (Y, M, O, T)
Online maps - Several online geography resources are available at geography.com. (Y, M, O, T)
Outline Maps - Houghton-Mifflin textbook publishing company has made available a large selection of outline maps in PDF. The maps are available for personal or classroom use. There are different maps available for each continent and may include choices of physical terrain, political boundaries, climate, capitals, and more. Many have options for with or without labels. (Y, M, O, T)
Owl & Mouse Educational Software - Free maps and map puzzles to learn United States and World geography with Maps that Teach. Free interactive maps and map puzzles to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments. Maps are vital to our understanding geography and the world we live in. Interactive and fun, Maps that Teach help students learn basic geography. (Y, M, O, T)
Play-doh map activity - Make a play-doh map of your state (Y)
The Great Globe Gallery on the World Wide Web - "Get the whole world in your hands with globes that speak your language." (Y, M, O, T)
The Growth and Distribution of American Cities:1790 to 2000 - Maps (PDF format) (Y, M, O, T)
tlsbooks.com - free geography worksheets - Free geography worksheets for preschool through 5th grade. (Y)
USA Blank map - (Y, M, O, T)
World Atlas - World atlas has flags of all countries, states and territories as well as a list of continents, countries, dependencies, islands, territories, lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, mountains, and the highest, lowest, biggest, smallest, tallest, deepest, oldest, youngest, richest, poorest places on the planet. Free maps test are available for teachers and if you are looking for an outline map that isn't listed, you can email them and they will send it to you by email. They offer a daily geography quiz (with a cash prize) which starts with one question and additional clues are added each day until someone wins. Once there is a winner a new quiz is posted the next day. (Y, M, O, T)
