United States--Illinois

Illinois has a lot -ests.  The first skyscraper was built in Illinois.  Illinois has the tallest skyscraper in North America.  The O'Hare airport is the busiest airport in the world.  Illinois has the oldest zoo in America. Illinois also has the 3rd biggest city--Chicago. 

Another thing Illinois is remembered for is the great Chicago fire allegedly started by a cow.  Of course when we learned that we had to sing the old camp song:  Late last night, when we were all in bed, Old Lady Leary left a lantern in the shed.  The cow kicked it over and winked it's eye and said, "It will be a hot time in the old town tonight.  Fire! Fire! Fire!" 

For our activity we talked about skyscrapers.  We looked at some of the worlds tallest buildings, built a skyscraper and drew pictures of skyscrapers.