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Along the American History Trail: Lewis and Clark

October 28, 2008

Along the American History Trail ~ Lewis and Clark Stop 3

In the History Block:

Lewis and Clark for Kids will serve as our spine and main activity idea book for the next four weeks.  Prepare to complete some of the activities from Ch. 4 and 5 and incorporate them into your lessons this week.

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

Big Ones:

  • Children will read Ch. 2 and 3 of Lewis and Clark for Kids and narrate for their Books of Centuries.
  • Children will read Sacagwea Speaks.
  • If children have finished reading Undaunted Courage, they may enjoy working their way through Lewis and Clark, Voyage of Discovery, learning more about the Ambrose families' experience on the trail.
  • After reading  America: A Patriotic Primer,  work on creating your own Alphabet of America book. Either let this be an individual project, done very slowly, or work on it as a family project. Big kids should bring considerable detail to the project. Don't ignore the artistic component!
  • The Teaching Company Early American History

In the Geography Block:

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

  • Read the large print rhymes in P is for Peace Garden: A North Dakota Alphabet to the child.  Have the child choose two or three areas of interest to research more completely by reading the fine print sidebars. Then, have him make a four square like the one pictured here.
       
  • Do the activities for the Montana quarter found here.

Big Kids:

  • The child can read all of  P is for Peace Garden: A North Dakota Alphabet to himself. For each state, draw a detailed map. Choose one historical topic of interest for each state and research it further. Write a well organized essay on that one topic.

*From the time they are very little, I teach my children to keep notebooks, journaling what they have learned in history. These notebooks become the Book of Centuries. At least once a week, I keyboard their oral narrations for them to illustrate and place in the notebook. The notebook is organized chronologically, in order to facilitate the child physically placing an event into the proper time period. Simply inset a tab divider for each century into the notebook. The child files narrations, maps, and other drawings behind the tab. the organization will help them develop a concept of time. (pg 92 Real learning)

In the Language Arts Block:

Family Read-Aloud:  (Mom reads or listen on audio) Sacagawea, Childhood Of Famous Americans

Lively Language Lessons

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

  • Readers: Sacagawea
  • Narration: Children can narrate from the readers as they complete them and from the read-aloud selections that mom reads.
  • Copywork and Dictation: The poem here or excerpts, as able.

Big Ones:

Science and Nature Study: Read widely from the Science book baskets (on the lefthand sidebar) or work your way through Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark , learning and identifying as you go.

Poetry, Art, and Music: We invite you to follow along our studies with the lessons found in M is for Masterpiece, M is for Melody, and R is for Rhyme.

Serendipi-Tea Time:

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Along the American History Trail ~ Lewis and Clark Stop 4

In the History Block:

Lewis and Clark for Kids will serve as our spine and main activity idea book for the next four weeks.  Prepare to complete some activities from chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9 and plan to incorporate them into your lessons this week (Obviously you won't get to everything, pick and choose what will work best for your family).

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

Big Ones:

In the Geography Block:

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

  • Read the large print rhymes in B is for Beaver: An Oregon Alphabet to the child.  Have the child choose two or three areas of interest to research more completely by reading the fine print sidebars. Then, have him make a four square like the one pictured here.
       
  • Do the activities for the Oregon quarter found here.

Big Kids:

  • The child can read all of B is for Beaver: An Oregon Alphabet to himself. For each state, draw a detailed map. Choose one historical topic of interest for each state and research it further. Write a well organized essay on that one topic.

*From the time they are very little, I teach my children to keep notebooks, journaling what they have learned in history. These notebooks become the Book of Centuries. At least once a week, I keyboard their oral narrations for them to illustrate and place in the notebook. The notebook is organized chronologically, in order to facilitate the child physically placing an event into the proper time period. Simply inset a tab divider for each century into the notebook. The child files narrations, maps, and other drawings behind the tab. the organization will help them develop a concept of time. (pg 92 Real learning)

In the Language Arts Block:

Family Read-Aloud:  (Mom reads or listen on audio) Sacagawea, Childhood Of Famous Americans or, if done, Lewis and Clark, Voyage of Discovery

Lively Language Lessons

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

  • Readers: American Slave, American Hero: York of the Lewis and Clark Expedition/ I am Sacagawea, I am York.
  • Narration: Children can narrate from the readers as they complete them and from the read-aloud selections that mom reads.
  • Copywork and Dictation: "The expedition's journals present York as a large, strong man who shared the duties and risks of the expedition in full. He was the only African American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and in the wilderness served as an equal member, with freedoms and responsibilities unlike back East. The assignments given him, as recorded in the journals, attest to his skill in scouting, hunting and field medicine." (Wikipedia)

Big Ones:

  • Reader: Lewis and Clark Among the Indians
  • Narration: Child can narrate from reader when complete or as he/she reads.
  • Copywork and Dictation: "The expedition's journals present York as a large, strong man who shared the duties and risks of the expedition in full. He was the only African American member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and in the wilderness served as an equal member, with freedoms and responsibilities unlike back East. The assignments given him, as recorded in the journals, attest to his skill in scouting, hunting and field medicine. When the expedition reached the Pacific Ocean, York voted along with the rest as to where the Expedition would build winter quarters. Most significantly, at a time in which slaves were forbidden to carry weapons, York not only carried a firearm but also frequently shot game such as buffalo. " (Wikipedia)

  • These big kids will also use US History Based writing lessons.

Science and Nature Study: Read widely from the Science book baskets (on the lefthand sidebar) or work your way through Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark, learning and identifying as you go.

Poetry, Art, and Music: We invite you to follow along our studies with the lessons found in M is for Masterpiece, M is for Melody, and R is for Rhyme.

Serendipi-Tea Time:

  • Hoe cakes

    These are a Southern tradition.

    Ingredients

    A pot full of water
    3 cups corn meal
    1 teaspoon of salt
    Shortening

    Put a pot of water on the stove to boil. Mix corn meal and salt in a large bowl. Slowly add boiling water 'til the batter becomes mushy but not stiff. Let this sit while you heat up some shortening in a skillet. When the shortening is hot but not smoking, drop several heaping tablespoons of the corn meal mixture into the pan.

    Keep the corn “cakes” separate so they don’t run together. Turn down the heat a little, then flip them over and cook the other side. They should be flat and crispy golden brown. That’s it.

    These are called HOE cakes because they were originally cooked over a fire on the flat part of a garden hoe. They are basically an African-American invention and are like those potato chips . . . you can’t eat just one—especially if you drip butter on top. ENJOY.

    HT: Backwoods Home

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October 23, 2008

Along the American History Trail ~ Lewis and Clark Stop 1

In the History Block:

Lewis and Clark for Kids will serve as our spine and main activity idea book for the next four weeks.  Prepare to complete the two activities from the chapter "Fixin' for a Start" and plan to incorporate them into your lessons this week.

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

Big Ones:

  • Children will read Ch. 1 of Lewis and Clark for Kids and narrate for their Books of Centuries.
  • Children can begin reading  Undaunted Courage and discussing it with Mom or Dad in the evenings.
  • After reading  America: A Patriotic Primer,  work on creating your own Alphabet of America book. Either let this be an individual project, done very slowly, or work on it as a family project. Big kids should bring considerable detail to the project. Don't ignore the artistic component!
  • The Teaching Company Early American History

In the Geography Block:

Little Ones:

  • Read the large print rhymes in S is for Show Me to the child.
  • Do the activities for the Missouri quarter found here.

Middle Ones:

  • Read the large print rhymes in S is for Show Me to the child.  Have the child choose two or three areas of interest to research more completely by reading the fine print sidebars. Then, have him make a four square like the one pictured here.
       
  • Do the activities for the Missouri quarter found here.

Big Kids:

  • The child can read all of S is for Show Me to himself. For each state, draw a detailed map. Choose one historical topic of interest for each state and research it further. Write a well organized essay on that one topic.

*From the time they are very little, I teach my children to keep notebooks, journaling what they have learned in history. These notebooks become the Book of Centuries. At least once a week, I keyboard their oral narrations for them to illustrate and place in the notebook. The notebook is organized chronologically, in order to facilitate the child physically placing an event into the proper time period. Simply inset a tab divider for each century into the notebook. The child files narrations, maps, and other drawings behind the tab. the organization will help them develop a concept of time. (pg 92 Real learning)

In the Language Arts Block:

Family Read-Aloud:  (Mom reads or listen on audio) Bold Journey, West with Lewis and Clark

Lively Language Lessons

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

Big Ones:

  • Reader: Undaunted Courage
  • Narration: Child can narrate from reader when complete or as he/she reads.
  • Copywork and Dictation: Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ Thomas Jefferson

  • These big kids will also use US History Based writing lessons.

Science and Nature Study: Read widely from the Science book baskets (on the lefthand sidebar) or work your way through Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark , learning and identifying as you go.

Poetry, Art, and Music: We invite you to follow along our studies with the lessons found in M is for Masterpiece, M is for Melody, and R is for Rhyme.

Serendipi-Tea Time:

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Along the American History Trail~Lewis and Clark Stop 2

In the History Block:

Lewis and Clark for Kids will serve as our spine and main activity idea book for the next four weeks.  Prepare to complete some of the activities from Ch. 2 and 3 and incorporate them into your lessons this week.

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

Big Ones:

  • Children will read Ch. 2 and 3 of Lewis and Clark for Kids and narrate for their Books of Centuries.
  • Children should aim to finish reading Undaunted Courage and discussing it with Mom or Dad in the evenings.
  • Children can read The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe.  (This book should be a fairly easy read for older students and can either be read either as the student works through Undaunted Courage or when that book is completed.)
  • After reading  America: A Patriotic Primer,  work on creating your own Alphabet of America book. Either let this be an individual project, done very slowly, or work on it as a family project. Big kids should bring considerable detail to the project. Don't ignore the artistic component!
  • The Teaching Company Early American History

In the Geography Block:

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

  • Read the large print rhymes in B is for Big Sky Country: A Montana Alphabet to the child.  Have the child choose two or three areas of interest to research more completely by reading the fine print sidebars. Then, have him make a four square like the one pictured here.
       
  • Do the activities for the Montana quarter found here.

Big Kids:

  • The child can read all of  B is for Big Sky Country: A Montana Alphabet to himself. For each state, draw a detailed map. Choose one historical topic of interest for each state and research it further. Write a well organized essay on that one topic.

*From the time they are very little, I teach my children to keep notebooks, journaling what they have learned in history. These notebooks become the Book of Centuries. At least once a week, I keyboard their oral narrations for them to illustrate and place in the notebook. The notebook is organized chronologically, in order to facilitate the child physically placing an event into the proper time period. Simply inset a tab divider for each century into the notebook. The child files narrations, maps, and other drawings behind the tab. the organization will help them develop a concept of time. (pg 92 Real learning)

In the Language Arts Block:

Family Read-Aloud:  (Mom reads or listen on audio) Bold Journey, West with Lewis and Clark

Lively Language Lessons

Little Ones:

Middle Ones:

  • Readers: Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale.
  • Narration: Children can narrate from the readers as they complete them and from the read-aloud selections that mom reads.
  • Copywork and Dictation: The poem here or excerpts, as able.

Big Ones:

Science and Nature Study: Read widely from the Science book baskets (on the lefthand sidebar) or work your way through Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark , learning and identifying as you go.

Poetry, Art, and Music: We invite you to follow along our studies with the lessons found in M is for Masterpiece, M is for Melody, and R is for Rhyme.

Serendipi-Tea Time:

  • Tea Biscuits

    You will need:

        1 cup butter
        1 cup milk
        4 eggs
        3 cups flour
        1 tsp. salt
        1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
        2 tsp. cream of tarter

      Mix all ingredients together. Make into a thin loaf and bake in flat, greased pan. Break into chunks. Serve warm with butter and honey.

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October 20, 2008

Lewis and Clark Reading List

Please note: we are in the process of pre-reading all these books. Some books, particularly for the oldest children, may change if we determine they are unsuitable.

Spine and Activity:
For Related Science and Nature Study:
Geography:
Family Read-Alouds:
Little Kids:
Middle Kids:
Big Kids:
For Voracious Readers:
Fun Extras:

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