Geography/History Texas

With Texas being the second largest State in the United States it was fitting that we had two families send us postcards. Selena thought it was pretty cool that she had more then one postcard from Texas, in fact she had 4.

We received this postcard from My Bilingual Boys. They explained the large ball is called Reunion Tower and it has a revolving restaurant where you can eat. It reminded me of the Space Needle in Seattle.

These three postcards were sent by Ticia from Adventures in Mommydum. She had each of her three children send a postcard. One of her boys told us that they love to climb and touch the statues at the parks or like in the first postcard. The other boy told us that Texas has cowboys as represented in the second postcard. Then her daughter explained that the city lights remind her of Christmas lights.

Now I have no understanding as to why Selena chose to use this shade of pink for Texas. I think she chose it as the postcard we got from My Bilingual Boys has purple in it. Your guess is as good as mine. She had no problem locating Texas after seeing it in our atlas and went right to work coloring.

At first Selena thought the flag was missing a section. I had to point out that it indeed had a white stripe, and was not the shape of an L with a star on it. She found out that Texas is known as the Lone Star State, “Is that why they have one star on the flag?” That was Selena’s famous question and comparison of this State. We learned that the Capital is Austin, the State bird is a mockingbird, there is cactus in Texas, Texas Longhorn, Armadillo, and the State Moto is Friendship.

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