We "experienced" the crowding as described on the link. We talked about how it would feel to be tossed about on the ship and the seasickness.ģ. As the site talked about the living conditions we first recreated the waves using the activity described in the link with a water bottle and plastic to represent the ship rocking among the waves inside. They might be nice for an older child to use directly in some way.Ģ. I used these interviews for my own research as they were by people from and I know they are knowledgeable. They cooked when possible and otherwise ate food that didn't need to be cooked. So I believe this site is incorrect in that area. Note: The cook fed the crew but did not make food for the passengers based on my research. I actually did this section last even though, I believe, it is number two on the diagram. I did not use hardtack in this unit as it "shows up" in many units we'll be covering beyond this such as the Revolutionary and even Civil wars. Then I planned to sample jerky, dried fruit (prunes), and cheese. We talked about spoilage and shortages as the journey went on. After the section covering food we discussed the food and why it was either salted or dried. My kids like the back and forth but another child might be better served going through all the site and then experiencing it with the activities. As we view particular areas we will "experience" the Mayflower using activities from Lesson 2 of these plans. We'll explore the ship using the tour the ship portion of this site. Lesson 2 for example gives what you might want to use to introduce why the pilgrims left just like the book linked above.Īfter that brief introduction we’re going to explore the Mayflower and how it felt to make this long journey. However, I found this wonderful colonial unit which has a “main points” section for each lesson that provide you with all the information you would need if books aren't available. This book would be great for this particular lesson I suspect. The websites I’m linking in the following lessons do a very nice job with all except the motivation for the journey.Ī friend loaned me the book If You Sailed on the Mayflowerwhich I used for the background and information parts of this unit. I began with a general "why and how it started" history of the journey the pilgrims made. In our history sequence this unit followed the Wampanoag Unit but the two could have easily been combined into one unit. S ome of these were typed in future tense and then modified in past tense so the tenses may switch around mid lesson unintentionally. So we're still in process and the plans aren't what they might have been but I wanted to post them anyway. We've had lots of illness and life interruptions and so this unit is taking longer than I had expected to work through. I've been adjusting my lesson plans for this unit as we go through them. This allowed us to talk about the smallpox vaccine and eradication as well which ties it to some of our current history in terms of diseases of the time. We talked about the Salk vaccine (Noel Moore had polio) for polio and vaccines generally. This further emphasized that she gave human characteristics to animals (a core knowledge objective) and, even better, why and who she might have had in mind for the character! The afterward told more about the resulting books and Noel Moore and the book includes picture reproductions of the original letters as well. This was neat because Noel realizes Miss Potter modeled Peter after him. It recounts the story of Beatrix Potter's letter to Noel Moore which later became the Peter Rabbit story.
However, I wanted to post because I have a book The True Story of Peter Rabbit that worked so nicely with these lessons.
When I finally got my voice back we covered Beatrix Potter stories as specified in the Core Knowledge curriculum. I used this link for Issun-boshi as it was all I found but most had multiple choices. If a search was particularly hard I'll try to post what I found as we do the lessons. We did the core knowledge objectives for many fairy tales while I've been sick and I was able to find audio versions at sites like for nearly all for example. Often I can find nicely done audio or video versions. Almost always I can find text and often illustrations as well. It's worth noting for those with a weak library system that for almost all the core knowledge literature selections I've been able to find online versions of the stories. Thankfully my boys love audio books and stories and so we had an extremely literature rich couple of weeks despite my lack of voice! I've been sick and then had laryngitis for well over a week. I've created plans for the 13 colonies which will begin very soon I hope.
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