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Here are my detailed plans for our Resourcefulness--Frontier Life unit. We have actually already started this unit, but I am behind in my posts! I will add details about how things are going in a separate post.You can view some pictures from our first few days of this unit here:
http://www.konoskarats.com/id12/html
Resourcefulness--Frontier Life
Week 1 of 5
Objectives:
1) Introduce what resourcefulness adn initiative means.
2) Practice/discuss how people are resourceful and how we can be that way.
3) Learn to sew a sampler.
4) Learn to make candles.
5) Learn about and build log cabin models.
Vocabulary:
initiate
initiative
resourcefulness
resources
frontier
prairie
Pioneer
Books to look for:
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Borrowers
Puss in Boots
Wind and the Sun--Aesop
My Side of the Mountain
Back to Basics
The Early Family Home
Movies/Music:
Five Mile Creek (video)
Grizzly Adams (video)
Skip to My Lou
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Square Dance tape/instructions
Activities:
Day 1--
Introduce character trait
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do a
#9 Gen (p4) initiate--discuss
#10 Gen (p4) initiate--list and discuss
#14 Gen (p4) do a
#31 Gen (p8) "Yankee Ingenuity"
Day 2--
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do b
#14 Gen (p4) do b
#26 Gen (p7) stranded--pairs--do activities
#36 Gen (p10) What are resources? Discuss.
Day 3--
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do c
#14 Gen (p4) do c
#8 (p15) logs--how to build
#9 (p15) split logs (chisel/mallet)
#10 or #11 (p16) model of log cabin
#14 (p16) BAC--furniture for models
Day 4--
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do d
#14 Gen (p4) do d
#17, 18, 19 (p17) candle making
#51 (p21) start samplers
#16 (p17) discuss light
Special Assignments:
All--#27 & 28 Gen (p8)--survival manual and learning from wildlife (&/or lapbook style booklet)
* Each day we read from various unit books to help explain/discuss the info related to the activities for the day.
* We will read daily from a longer book together as a family also. We will start on The Borrowers this week.
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