History Planning -- Native Americans

Pictorial plans for the pre-Columbian unit which will take place over the next 3-4 weeks..... see photos below. Advent is starting right after the Thanksgiving break, so the regular history will take a back seat eventually as other things take over.

Another book not pictured here is Favorite North American Legends, which I plan to read aloud to the children over the next three days.

I also have a few coloring books which I haven't dug out yet, and a few of these Draw Write Now books.

Other resources are at the Thanksgiving post and I also found this page of Native American worksheets.

If you remember, I made these History Pages to be used for this study.



These are the contents of a few old-fashioned books, probably too easy for Kieron really and too advanced for the other ones but I thought I'd list them anyway.



California Standards (Native Americans)
California Social Studies Standards correlated with lesson plans


This is a group of books that aren't directly related to the central unit but that I thought might be interesting and somewhat related for springboards for further studies.

Redwood Core Knowledge worksheets

For several years I lost this site: Redwood Games.

It was one of the first sites I bookmarked when I first got online, uh, ten years ago? It has free worksheets/study guides for the 4th to 6th grade Core Knowledge books. For example:

• Geography Grade 5
• World History Grade 5
• Fine Arts Grade 5

I have found them useful several times for verbal discussion, an occasional writing assignment and just to have around. As you probably know we use the Core Knowledge as sort of unit-study starters or reference books -- I like the way they are organized. So I'm glad I found the site again. ... I was just in the process of typing out my own study guides but that would have been hard work.

There are also some game downloads and math worksheets on the Redwood site, and some homeschooling tips and links.

UPS man comes with HWT supplies for next year

about 5 minutes after the Handwriting without Tears order came....



Paddy and Aidan had both staked their claim on a handwriting book.


You can see, looking at Paddy's grip, why Aidan's OT thinks Paddy needs to develop core body strength a bit.

One little extra I got was the short golf pencils. They are supposed to help with a better tripod grip and since both the little ones much prefer writing with markers to pencils, I thought a cute pencil might help.

We'll see.

Fun School

I really like these Grade Level Skills Help pages on Internet4Classrooms.

Lots of internet games and reviews organized by goals for different grades.

In our normal daily routine, we often do this kind of thing in the last hour of the schoolday, which is around lunchtime. The kids usually rather enjoy spending a few minutes reviewing various skills this way.

Jacob's Algebra syllabus

I made this sheet for the rest of the year for Sean's Algebra (using Jacob's). There is a place to put his scores and grades since that is interesting to him at his age.

I uploaded a doc file of the whole Jacob's Algebra Table of Contents in the same form.
Anyone who finds it useful is welcome to download it.

Glencoe has really nice study tools online, even if you aren't using Glencoe curricula.
Here is their Math 6 site with chapter quizzes and even standardized test practice.

There are also PDFs for literature study for middle and high school.

Book Resources -- Geography & More

A thread about living books about "the other side of the world". Quite a list growing.

Also, books about the Arctic.

And Advent with a nature focus.