Click here for FREE music lessons:Two Weeks Free Music Lessons

Colonial Times Unit Study and Lapbook

Compass Classroom Premium Membership free for one month

Colonial Times Unit and Lapbook

Our next big study of the year was about the Colonial days of America.  Here are some of the books we read:

Picture Books:

Colonial Life–Kalman

Colonial Crafts–Kalman

Colonial Kids:  An Activity Guide—Carlson

A Day in the Life of a Colonial Blacksmith–Wilmore

A Day in the Life of a Colonial Printer–Wilmore

A Day in the Life of a Colonial Wigmaker–Wilmore

A Day in the Life a Colonial Silversmith–Wilmore

The Thirteen Colonies–January

Colonial Living–Tunis

Sarah Morton’s Day–Waters

Colonial America: Building Toward Independence–Worth

biographies of Pocahontas and John Smith

Historical Fiction:

Calico Captive–Speare

The Courage of Sarah Noble–Dalgliesh

Witch of Blackbird Pond–Speare

CD’s:

The Stories of the Pilgrims–Pumphrey, read by Jim Hodges

A Thanksgiving to Remember–Rainey, produced by Family Life Ministries

My older son did notebooking, while my younger son made a lapbook.  We got most of these lapbooking pages from A Journey Through Learning’s “An Overview of the 17th Century” and some from Hands of a Child “Life in Colonial America.
You might find them on sale at CurrClick!
CurrClick

Here are some pictures:

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

Photobucket

(Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links)

2023 Free Book Lists graphic
Learn how to fly for free with Families Fly Free

One Comment

  1. Homeschool Parenting Summit 2.0 October 16-21, 2023
  2. Hi Gena!
    I love your unit study on Colonial Life! You have a beautiful family! Take care and I hope all goes well with baby #7!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

All About Spelling homeschool curriculum, now in color