Colonial Times Unit Study 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.”
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Here are some pictures:

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