History

Cait and I started the American Girl girl series last week. We completed the first book and she loved it! We are now working our way through the second book.

She began working on her lapbook.

We mapped out where the Native Americans lived during that time and labeled it on the map.

To better understand Kaya's life, we will be studying Native Americans. Caitlin completed the first Native American unit from History Pockets: Native Americans.

After reading about the Inuit tribe, she labeled the map with her "shelter stamp", showing where the Inuit mostly lived. With each new tribe we learn about, she will be adding their shelter stamp to the appropriate spot.

She is working on a comparison chart of the Native Americans we will be learning about. We will compare and contrast the clothing, food, and shelter of each tribe we study. She filled in the Inuit portion.

She is also working on a Native American picture dictionary. 

Finally, she cut, colored, and glued together her history pocket on the Inuit tribe.

We've been reading about the Nez Perce tribe and Chief Joseph.

 Caitlin did an activity on Chief Joseph on Brain Pop Jr.

She learned new vocabulary words that helped her better understand what she was reading in the books.

 She also created a picture of Chief Joseph, delivering a message to people today.

Jayden has been working hard in history as well. His work involves a lot of independent reading, answering questions, fun writing assignments, and map work. In order for me to feel somewhat in the loop with his history, he reads to me from his books.

 Last week he learned about Africa and it's neighbors. He read about the struggle Africans faced to keep their land from being invaded by Dutch farmers known as Boers, who were in search of a different place to live after the British seized their land. 

 He also read about David Livingstone and his fight to end the slave trade.

 One of his assignments included writing a journal entry from Livingstone's perspective.

 Finally, he had to label his map and work on filling in what the map key said.