Nov. 2, 2007
Coming up for Thanksgiving.....
Posted in Homeschooling
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Since Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away I wanted to share with you some of our favorite resources for Thanksgiving learning and activities. Remember to mark this in your favorites so you can refer back, and share it with a friend or two or three. Scholastic.com has a message boards feature, and on November 15th they have a special chat scheduled. Here are the details from the site: "Join the Thanksgiving Chat on Thursday, November 15, 2007 10 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. ET — three chances to ask and learn! A Pilgrim Interpreter and a Native American from the Plimoth Plantation will answer your questions about colonial times, tribal life, and the first Thanksgiving. Submit your questions early HERE, then join the chat and ask more!" Also from Scholastic: Listen to audios about the voyage on the Mayflower, daily life, and the Thanksgiving Feast. Scroll down to "More to Explore" and find a research starter on Plymouth Colony, Mayflower and Pilgrim interviews, meet a Wompanoag, and visit Plimoth Plantation. A teacher's guide and related book list are also available...JUST CLICK HERE! AND...sign up here to receive 3 letters from a young girl traveling on the Mayflower and three letters from a young Native American boy. Letters arrive in your e-mail box on November 2, 7, and 14 so hurry. I received the first of the letters today, but you should still have time to receive letters 2 and 3, so go sign up HERE! Get lots of Thanksgiving recipes and fun Thanksgiving crafts from Homeschooled Kids Online and from Home and Family Network. There are too many recipes and crafts to mention, so go check it out. I'm sure you will find something great that you can make. If you find something you really like leave me a comment and let me know what you made and how it turned out. My favorite Thanksgiving studies for school are.... Thanksgiving unit study by Amanda Bennett Thanksgiving Notebooking Pages by Amanda Bennett We used the Thanksgiving Learn N' Folder by Live N' Learn Press last year, but I'm not finding it on their web-site or on Homeschool E Store anymore. I believe it is still available through their yahoo group, but you must be a member (Click Here for Information). So, since I cannot find it I'll give you a couple of substitutes. I've not had experience with these particular lapbooks, but have used products from both of these companies before and been very well pleased with them. So, here they are.... Thanksgiving Lapbook by Knowledge Box Central Thanksgiving Project Pack by In the Hands of a Child And, last but not least, some of our family's favorite Thanksgiving themed books..... 1621: A Look at Thanksgiving...This is the Wamponoag side of the Thanksgiving story. It pictures a more accurate account of the tribe and their role in the first Thanksgiving, and offers some wonderful insight into the life of the tribe. Beautiful photography of actors in costume at Plimoth Plantation help make this telling even more realistic. If you are looking for a more true to life telling of these events without the biases that are often included in the traditional telling of the Thanksgiving story this book will be a great addition to your study.
Tapenum's Day: A Wamponoag Boy in Pilgrim Times....This story takes you through a day in the life of a Native American boy. Tapenum is not a historical person, but rather a fictionalized person, and the events of the book represent the ideas of what the daily life of the tribe during the time of the pilgrims might truly be like. The book is filled with beautiful full color photographs that makes the imagery come to life. Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy and Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl Each book follows it's respective child through the activities of a typical day in the time of the Pilgrims. These books too are filled with full color photographs of actors in period costume. These are wonderful resources for bringing the reality of Pilgrim life to your children. Three Young Pilgrims....This story is centered on three real children who sailed on the Mayflower to the "New World" in 1620, and follows their lives for a period of one year. In reading this book you and your children will begin to understand the hardships, sadness, and joys this family and others experienced as they fled their native country in search of a land where they could worship freely, and as they struggled through the difficulties of their first winter in the "New World". In the reading of this book you will experience sadness at the death of friends and family and of the disease that struck so many in this time, therefore carefully consider sharing this with a very young child. The story is beautifully illustrated and will draw your children into the lives of these children. I hope you will enjoy some great books this month and learn more about the real story behind the holiday we celebrate with a turkey dinner.
Blessings, Missy |
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