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Here are some resources to incorporate into your homeschooling to learn more about Thanksgiving.
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Celebrate Thanksgiving By Notgrass Company A great way to make your seasonal preparations and activities into a learning experience! This unit study from Notgrass Company contains fifteen lessons (four pages each) that will teach students about Thanksgiving's history and why we celebrate this holiday in America. Lessons explore history, geography, the Bible, art, poetry, grammar, creative writing, character, science, traditions, and thinking skills. Craft instructions for seven projects are provided; plus, the pages in this book are acid-free and can be integrated into your own Thanksgiving scrapbook. Consumable workbook; each child requires their own book. Lessons take approximately 30-60 minutes. 86 pages, spiralbound. Ages 7-12. |
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Sarah Morton's Day: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Girl By Kate Waters / Scholastic Trade See what a day in the life of 9-year-old Pilgrim Sarah Morton was like! A classic Thanksgiving book, photographs of Plimoth Plantation interpreters show the chores, games, education, garments, and lifestyle of 1627 alongside the story of Sarah's friendship with her friend Elizabeth and her family's life with a new stepfather. 32 pages with glossary, softcover. |
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Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Boy By Kate Waters & Russ Kendall(Illustrator) / Scholastic Trade Step back in time and spend a day with seven-year-old Samuel Eaton as he helps to bring in the rye harvest-a man's job-for the first time. Exited to be doing such grown-up work, he perseveres through blisters and soreness, and at the end of the day earns the compliment of being invited him to help with later harvests. Learn what clothes are worn, what chores had to be done, what people ate, and other information about what life in 1627's Plimoth Plantation. 40 pages with glossary and historical information, softcover. |
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National Geographic Pilgrims of Plymouth By Susan E. Goodman / National Geographic Children's Books This National Geographic Kids picture book features classic photos of Plimoth Plantation re-enactors (including photos from Sarah Morton's Day and Samuel Eaton's Day) paired with simple sentences about Pilgrim life designed to help younger readers learn about the First Thanksgiving and early colonial life. Ages 4-8 / Grades PreK-3. 16 pages, softcover. |
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Radio Theatre: The Legend of Squanto By Tyndale House This audio drama brings to light the story of one of America's early legends — "Squanto." History remembers Tisquantum as the Native American who taught early settlers to fish and farm. He's even credited with the first Thanksgiving. But few hear the story of the condemnation that dragged him outside America to a life in chains and what he discovered after his exile. It's an inspiring true story of this little-known early American that triumphed over injustice and changed what would become the United States. |
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If You Sailed on the Mayflower By Ann McGovern / Scholastic Trade Imagine being a Pilgrim on the Mayflower, anxiously awaiting arrival in a new land. This popular book in the If You series answers a variety of questions about Pilgrim life--both on the ship and on shore--helping readers understand what it was like to have lived at that time. Four-color illustrations. Grades 2-5 |
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Mayflower, 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage By Peter Arenstam / Random House Discover what it would be like to cross the sea with the Pilgrims and set off to a new land. Richly detailed photographs illustrate what life would be like aboard the Mayflower, how they navigated the sea, and who and what they encountered when they finally reached their destination. 47 pages, softcover with index. |
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Thanksgiving Pictorial America By Applewood Books See Thanksgiving through the eyes of the older generations. A collection of full-color paintings, postcards, posters, poems, letters, sketches, vintage packaging from Thanksgiving foods, and other forms of thanksgiving nostalgia are included! 53 pages, softcover. |
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An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving By Louisa May Alcott / Applewood Books In this story of an 1820s Thanksgiving, a woman must leave her children to care for her ailing mother. She goes away on Thanksgiving Day, and the children decide to prepare their own Thanksgiving feast. Later that day, to the children's surprise, Mother returns to find a delightful dinner on the table. |
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An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving DVD By Affirm Films With her farm on the brink of financial ruin, widow Mary Bassett and her children can't even afford a Thanksgiving turkey. When Isabella, her wealthy and estranged mother, comes to visit, Mary resents her efforts to help them out. Will mother and daughter overcome their bitterness and embrace healing? Based on a short story by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women). Approx. 88 minutes. DVD Features:
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Galloping the Globe: The Geography Unit Study for Young Learners, Updated and Revised Edition with CD-Rom By Loree Pettit & Dari Mullins / Geography Matters Creative and filled with ideas for traveling the world in your studies, Galloping the Globe is a unit study for kindergarten through fourth grade. Focusing on the seven continents and some specific countries, this study is designed to take 1-3 years to complete; suggested schedules are included. Integrating geography, Bible, history, science, literature, and maps & flags, children will discover the famous people from each country as well as holidays and other cultural traditions. Each country has a checklist with books to read from the core reading list as well as individual picture books, biographies, websites to visit, language arts selections, appropriate Bible references and activities unique to each portion of the world. Employing a notebooking approach, students build a notebook as they progress throughout the course. The CD-ROM includes all of the activity sheets, maps, and flags that are in the book, as well as other bonus notebooking pages. Mac and PC compatible. Maps, reports, flags, and activity pages are reproducible. 266 pages, indexed. Answer key included. Grades K-4. Softcover. This study is based around a core book list consisting of the following: |
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Cantering the Country, Revised--Book and CD-ROM By Loree Pettit / Geography Matters Canter about the country as you introduce your students to the fifty states and Washington D.C. State geography, history, mottos, animals and other regional information is collected and presented in this comprehensive notebooking unit study. Each state features an introductory reading passage followed by interesting facts and a booklist separated into general reference, geography, history/biography, science, literature, language arts, and character (derived from the state motto) categories. A list of activities rounds out each state, allowing parents to pick and choose what they'd like to do. Small reduced images show you what notebooking pages to complete from the CD-ROM. The included CD-ROM contains reproducible outline maps, word searches, crossword puzzles and in this new edition, even more notebooking content! 261 pages with limited reproducible pages, softcover. Grades 1-5. |
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My Body, Grades 1 to 4 By Rachelle Cracchiolo / Teacher Created Resources Show your 6- to 10-year-olds just how "fearfully and wonderfully" complex their bodies are! Using full-size paper figures they trace themselves and "color, cut, and paste" organs (each with easy-to-understand explanations), they'll learn the function and place of the heart, skeleton, muscles, brain, internal reproductive organs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, and more. 40 reproducible pages, softcover from Teacher Created Resources. |
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Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy Textbook (2nd Edition) By Jeannie Fulbright / Apologia Educational Ministries Explore the vastness of the universe with Exploring Creation with Astronomy, 2nd Edition from Apologia. Study the basics of the field of astronomy, the sun, moon, planets, asteroids & meteors, the Kuiper Belt and Dwarf Planets, galaxies, and more through conversational lessons written directly to students. This Charlotte-Mason inspired guide to astronomy will keep kids interested and engaged for each lesson! This second edition features bright photographs, sidebars with Biblical wisdom, infographics to help children understand information, callout boxes which give special attention to God as Creator, "what do you remember?" review questions, and integrated activities. 216 pages, hardcover. Index and answers to the "What do you Remember? questions are included. Scripture taken from the NASB. Elementary Grades; Grades 1-6. May be completed in one semester or one year depending on the desired schedule. 14 lessons. 2nd Edition. |
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Exploring Creation with Botany, Textbook By Jeannie Fulbright / Apologia Educational Ministries Introduce your young naturalists to plants---their structure, propagation, classification, and more---with this engaging yearlong classical science curriculum. Influenced by Charlotte Mason and the living books philosophy, homeschooling mother Jeannie Fulbright writes as if she were chatting with her own children, defining and explaining at their comprehension level. Designed to be used with both readers and non-readers, each clearly organized lesson features content-rich narration; notebooking; and hands-on activities and projects using easy-to-find household items. Dissect seeds, force bulbs, make leaf skeletons---and take a close-up look at God's flora kingdom. Grades K to 6. 176 pages, hardcover. |
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Land Animals of the Sixth Day: Exploring Creation with Zoology 3 By Jeannie Fulbright / Apologia Educational Ministries The third book in Apologia's acclaimed zoology series, Exploring Creation with Zoology 3 will give students a tour through their own backyards, bring them on a safari and introduce them to the varied inhabitants of jungles, deserts, forests, farms and other ecosystems. Discover how people are different from apes, how to tell poisonous and non-poisonous snakes apart, how to get away from a bear and more! Arranged by classification order, animals are divided into the distinctions given in Genesis--wild animals, livestock and "creatures that creep." Each chapter is packed full of interesting facts and notes, characteristics, differences between species, habits, habitats, bright photographs and more fun information that kids will love to learn. Factor in interdisciplinary skills by keeping records of where each animal is located on a map, narration questions, notebooking, tracking tips, and numerous household, hands-on experiments and projects. Answers are organized by chapter, with both the student question (in bold) and answer included. 288 indexed pages, hardcover. Elementary grades. |
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