Monday, January 9, 2012

Road Trip USA ~ Rhode Island

We made our trip to Rhode Island today. Here are a few of the things we learned about today.

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Here are my boys thinking they are pointing to Rhode Island and posing for a picture but they moved there fingers when I said lets take a picture. Silly boys. We learned that the Capital is Providence. Also the Rhode Island was the 13 state to become a state May 29, 1790.

State Flower: The Common Blue Violet

So pretty.

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Continental sailing vessel ~ Providence

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The Breakers is a Vanderbilt Mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, RI. What a beautiful Mansion.

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If you would like to learn more about Rhode Island you can go to Wikipedia

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Here are their state sheets they did today. They were not big on coloring them today.

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Then they stamped their travel logs with the Rhode Island sticker..

If you want to learn more about the Road Trip USA curriculum click on the picture below.

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I hope you enjoyed your trip to Rhode Island with us.

    God Bless

     Jen

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