We wrapped up our third term of the school year a few weeks back. Here is the list of our history read alouds for this final term of the 2014-2015 year...
Story of the Oregon Trail by R. Conrad Stein
Pioneer Sampler by Barbara Greenwood
Attack in the Rye Grass by Dave & Neta Jackson
Narcissa Whitman: Brave Pioneer by Louis Sabin
Wagons West, Off to Oregon by Catherine Chambers
West by Covered Wagon: Retracing the Pioneer Trails by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
A Frontier Fort on the Oregon Trail by Scott Steedman
The Stout-Hearted Seven, Orphaned on the Oregon Trail by Neta Lohnes Frazier
Children of the Covered Wagon by Mary Jane Carr
A Nineteenth-Century Schoolgirl, The Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards edited by Kerry A. Graves
**The Rainbow Book of American History by Earl Schenck Miers
By the Great Horned Spoon by Sid Fleischman
California Gold Rush by Catherine Chambers
Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman Doctor by Carol Greene
Mr. Blue Jeans, The Story of Levi Strauss by Maryann N. Weidt
The Story of Gold at Sutter's Mill by R. Conrad Stein
Snowshoe Thompson by Nancy Smiler Levinson
Abraham Lincoln by James Daugherty
** Indicates books I read excerpts from, not the entire book.
We didn't get quite as far as I'd hoped this term historically. But this is OK since we will continue to read aloud over summer. Some additional books that I have planned are...
All Set Sail by Armstrong Sperry
The True Adventures of Daniel Hall by Diane Stanley
a couple books on the Pony Express, which I haven't settled on yet
Go Free or Die by Jeri Ferris
Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington, 1837-1865 by Cheryl Harness
Below are examples of notebooking pages the kids completed throughout our third term history study....
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