Week Five
Pilgrims
This week we read about the Pilgrims and their journey, struggles and blessings in our favorite book American Pioneers and Patriots
also adding in
Pilgrims of Plimoth and Squanto Friend of the Pilgrims
as read-alouds.
as read-alouds.
We had so much fun story-telling and imagining the pilgrim life, long ago, with these pilgrim peg dolls. They are so beautifully crafted and a favorite with my girls.
You can find them in this sweet little etsy shop.
We also printed out these little pilgrim finger puppets to color and play with.
This Mayflower Compact is something we have had in our homeschool closet for years. I really enjoy having this "authentic-looking" paper to pull out whenever we study this time period.
We also found this free book of printable Pilgrim paper dolls.
They were time consuming to cut out, but my first grader was diligent and stuck with it, and was glad she did, because she had so much fun playing with them.
We found a really sweet pilgrim timeline that we laminated, cut out into squares, and added velcro circles to. We attached them to a large paint stirrer that had a strip of velcro tape the whole length of the stirrer. They can come be used over and over this way.
We learned a little bit about those first houses built by the Pilgrims and made an oiled paper window. We made predictions on what might happen when the paper was oiled and why they might do that and the girls were really surprised by how much light the oiled window let in and how much it changed the paper.
We celebrated a good week of learning with a planting corn snack.
The simple snack is made up of crushed oreos, swedish fish, and freshly popped popcorn.
We discussed the lessons in planting given to the Pilgrims by Squanto.
Also, we found a fun Mayflower game to play together!
We continued our study with stars this week, reading about the big dipper and completing a notebook page with punched stars and ruler. We talked about how constellations are like dot to dot puzzles.
We found these sewing cards to use online. I printed them out and laminated the cards to use during quiet times and for when I read to them this week. I added some bits of yarn for lacing.
The girls also made these constellation paintings. The "paint" is one part white acrylic paint, one part white school glue, one half part white glitter. They used foam brushes to "slap" it on.
Yarn was threaded through the punched holes in their paintings to complete the constellation.
We also made our own constellation tubes.
These can be used as they are to look through, or with a flashlight.
We have a few more constellation circles to add to our collection, as we have more rolls available.
We also read and watched The Magic School Bus Seeing Stars
Next Week is Thanksgiving and we plan to reuse several of our projects and activities from this week and last together and we celebrate with thankful heart.
Please come back and visit our blog to see how our Thanksgiving week turns out.
to give you a little more detail on where and what we are studying
you can check out our classroom reveal HERE
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