Aim: Back To Fairmount Avenue

Vocabulary: symbol, memoir, landmark, advertisement

Activity #1: Click on State-Us Symbols  and print out a worksheet.  Please go to  State Symbols (At this Connecticut State site you will learn all about Connecticut including: state description, historical firsts, holidays, early history, government, economy, the land, tourism, state sites & symbols, historical information & documents).  Then go to  New York State Symbols and NYS Kids' Room to gather the information about your home state of New York. 

Activity #2:  While reading 26 Fairmount Avenue, you were transported to the year 1938.  Please print out Traveling Back In Time With Tomie.  At Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas, & Almanac Reference you will  use the interactive almanac by first entering the year 1938 to gather facts from when Tomie was 4 years old.  Then you will find out what was going on in the world when you were 4 years old. (This site is great for history reports and projects)

Activity # 3:  Let's go to Tomie DePaola's home town and Take a Historical Tour of the Silver City of Meriden (You will find information and resources about the city of Meriden.  Explore the site and discover Meriden's rich and diverse heritage)  You will then use a web to list  10-20 places  you would include on a tour of Brooklyn.  Images and pictures will be located on the Internet and you will be required to create a slide show using Kid Pix.

Activity #1 Extension:  How good is your memory?  Play an online game featuring Connecticut's State Symbols at Concentration - State Symbols.

Activity #2 Extension:  Complete a Venn diagram comparing your life to Tomie DePaola's.  Print out a blank Venn diagram here Houghton Mifflin.

Activity #3 Extension:  Use Apple Works or Student Writing Center to create an advertisement for tourists to visit either Brooklyn, New York or Meriden, Connecticut.  Use pictures to show, as well as tell, your selling points.