Warm As Wool
Betsy Ward's three children are cold. It is 1803, and they have traveled by covered wagon to the dark woods of Ohio. After the family shivers through the icy first winter in a drafty log cabin, Betsy is determined to get wool to make warm clothing for the children. She seizes upon a chance to buy eight bedraggled sheep. But it's harder than she expected to raise sheep on the frontier. Will Betsy be able to keep her sheep alive? Scott Russell Sanders tells the dramatic story of a pioneer mother's struggle to provide for her family.
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Our Five in a Row Adventures vol. 3
Highlights and suggestions from a mother who has used FIAR vol 3 in her homeschooling adventure. (Y)
Supplemental Book List
from the FIAR Message Board Archive (T)
Go-alongs about Frontier Life
A Celebration of Prairie Life - Interdisciplinary unit for 4th graders. Integrating the Arts Into the Classroom (Y)
Activities to Go With the Little House on the Prairie Book Series - (Y, M, O, T)
Colonial Living (3rd grade, Remedial 4th and 5th Grade) - Collaborative theme unit for students to explore the people, places, and events of life in the early settlements and colonies of the United States of America (Y)
Go West Across America with lewis & Clark - Wild rivers. Rugged mountains. An unknown continent to explore. This great American expedition will face them all. And they need your help on this incredible adventure. From National Geographic Kids. (Y,M)
Pioneer Life with Laura - A Social Studies and Language Arts unit that can be used in conjunction with a westward expansion study; from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. (Y, M, O, T)
Teacher's CyberGuide to Little House in the Big Woods - This supplemental unit provides resources for students in third grade to focus on life in the frontier times with an emphasis on student writing (Y)
The American West - Learn about pioneers, cowboys, Indians, the Alamo, Buffalo Bill, and more.
(Could tie in with FIAR vol. 4 title Cowboy Charlie)
(Y,M)
The Pony Express - Here is a series of fun activities for use in studying the Pony Express. First is an article with comprehension questions. There is also a puzzle, a drawing activity, and some other hands-on, high-interest fun. (Y)
There's No Place Like Home - Lesson plans from National Geographic online; uses My First Little House Books or Little House series (Y)
Welcome to Pioneer Town - This site utilizes Macromedia Flash (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Music
Appalachian Riddle Song - Capture your students' attention with this lesson focusing on “The Riddle Song” to show the pentatonic scale and Appalachian culture. (Y, M)
Children's Music Archive - Familiar children's music (Y, M, O, T)
Didjeridoo - From the Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre in Alice Springs. (Y, M, O, T)
Hotchalk.com - HotChalk is a learning environment for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes a learning management system (LMS), a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content like NBC News video, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment. Available through any Internet browser, the HotChalk Learning Environment is an easy to use system and brings teachers, students and parents together to improve education. (Y, M, O, T)
Ideas for teaching music - Includes links to some wonderful Music toys and games,
recommended books about Music, and some links to other useful Music sites.
(Y,M)
Making Musical Instruments - Carol Raedy, a musician and educator from Charlotte, NC, has put instructions online for making simple musical Using common household items you can guide your students to make a banjo, bass, dulcimer, drum, rainstick, and thumb piano. Thanks to Iris B. fo (Y, M, O, T)
Paul Taylor Didjeridoo - (Y, M, O, T)
Popular Songs in American History - If your student loves music, he will love learning these songs and their place in history. My kids have enjoyed learning songs like Wait for the Wagon and Yankee Doodle Dandy and this site offers not just the songs, but the background, lyrics, and relate (Y, M, O, T)
The Sound Site - The Sound Site is part of the Sound Project, a partnership between the Science Museum and the Minnesota Orchestra. The site's purpose is to present activities, discussions and multimedia explorations about sound, both from a scientific and artistic perspective. (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Sheep
Sheep crafts - Crafts for kids from Danielle's Place (Y)
Sheep mini-unit - from Biblical Holidays (Y, M, O, T)