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Great History Curriculum- Colonial Unit
Feb. 4, 2008 • 6:17 PM
We have been using a great History curriculum CD for our Colonial Unit. We bought the CD at Homeschool in the Woods.
When I placed the order I decided to change something with the order. I e-mailed and then called, ending up speaking right to the homeschooling mother who created this great line of school products. She explained their journey to creating their products. We have really enjoyed our unit thanks to this great CD. It is complete with all you need for a great educational experience. We only added a few books/stories to this. All the craft projects are on the CD. You just need to print them out and they are high-quality patterns!
We worked on this unit for quite awhile and really enjoyed it! We had our co-op's History Fair a week ago. We had a great turn-out. All the kids did such a GREAT job!
Here is some of what we did!
We first read about Roanoke:
The Mystery in History! Here's the book we read! 
This is very interesting! We then moved on to study
Jamestown. We read the Adventures in Colonial America
Book on Jamestown , by James E. Knight (Scholastic)
We made a Jamestown village replica! Very neat!
The photo also shows the pop-out pictures we made of the 4 examples of colonial homes!
You can download and print out your own Jamestown settlement for free here!
A few more things that were part of this unit study (CD) were...
The Colonial Clothing Overlays. These were printed out and made by layering. The clear overhead sheets are what were used. We really like this project! We learned how Colonial people usually only had 2 outfits and it took a whole year to make an outfit. We learn how they made their clothing starting with either fax or wool It was a long process just to make the material/fabric. We also read about how they dyed the colors into the yarns and fabrics so they could have colorful clohing.
We learned how to weave. We used a loom we got one year for Christmas. The CD instructs you how to do this though if you don't have a loom. This let them see what it might have been like to operate one of the large looms and what a process it was!
My girls made their own colonial dresses and aprons with their sewing teacher! Didn't they turn out great?
"Precious" wore this for our History Fair. I thought she was so cute in it. (even though in true colonial times she would still just wear the baby gowns.)
Also...
We made a sample of a Colonial Rope bed during the unit about the Colonial Home.
We had a unit on Colonial Food also and we made homemade butter. This was very neat and so simple. We are still enjoying our homemade butter!
To do this, you simply pour some heavy whipping cream in a clean Mason jar. Only fill about 1/4 of the way full. SHAKE, shake and shake some more! Eventually the fat separates from the milk as the picture shows. The butter come out o the jar and buttermilk is what is left!
We also made colonial gingerbread. We made this along with a box mix gingerbread from our store's today for our History Fair table. We did a taste test to see which one more people liked best. The majority liked the old-fashioned molasses gingerbread better.( I personally liked the store bought better though! Ugh!) We put our homemde butter on it! 
There was A LOT more with this CD unit but this is a sampling of it! Here are some photos of our table at the history Fair!
Happy Homeschooling!
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Feb. 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by SandBetweenMyToes
Thanks for stopping by my blog last week. I have enjoyed visiting yours tonight. We are about to start that same study, at least I think it's the same. There's a colonial one and an American Revolution one (that has a Jamestown replica). We are going to do the Revolution, then hope to move on to the Colonial one. I just read another blog this week of someone doing the Colonial one. I'm eager to get started, but need to finish up a lapbook on horses first.
You have an adorable family.
Letitia
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Posted by 4sweetums
I love the Jamestown village. Hope you all feel better soon.
Blessings,
4sweetums
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Feb. 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by CrossView
What fun!!
We're in the beginning study of Colonial America. I'm amazed by all the information out there... =D
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Feb. 5, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by ApplesofGold
Your new blog look is absolutely gorgeous!! I love it!! This post was fun to read & very inspiring. I love Homeschoolinthewoods, too! I want to get their century notebook soon.
Your Jamestown Settlement looks great. We studied the early settlers thru Konos a couple years ago and I remember we were all fascinated about the Roanoke colony I wondered all sort of things about what happened to the people that were left there-came up with lots of interesting theories. LOL. Can't wait to read more about your unit. Holly
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Posted by westward
LOVE this post. I've been thinking about a Homeschool in the Woods unit and you may have just talked me into it!
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Posted by Sandpiper
Thanks for sharing. I've been to their website and may use their products in the future, but it's always good to hear what others think.
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Feb. 5, 2008 - I'm with you...
Posted by proverbsmomof3
I love Amy Pak's Homeschool in the Woods products. Her art work is outstanding and we love her timeline figures with the information on them. We will be doing the Time Travelers American Revolution in a few weeks and I can't wait to get to it. I wish I had bought the Colonial unit before we began our own study. What a timesaver it would have been. Thanks for sharing this and I look forward to seeing more.
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Posted by Training Hearts
Thanks for sharing! Yes, we have really enjoyed some of her wonderful projects and timeline figures!
Have a wonderful day!
~Tamara
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Feb. 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by melissal89
Your blog design is absolutely beautiful! I too love Amy Pak's products. We are using Mystery of History, but I bought her CD clipart to use and have loved it.
Hope you all feel better soon.
Blessings, Melissa
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Feb. 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by blessinghill
Everyone did a great job! I'm sure they learned a lot too in the process.
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