November Homeschooling Resources

November is Native American Heritage Month. It's also Thanksgiving month, of course. I decided to create a post, with those themes in mind, from my previous posts.

Here are some history resources to get you started. 

Explorers Resources

Early American Settlers Resources

French and Indian War Resources

Native American Resources

Here are a few animal studies that are good for November. (I will hopefully have some new ones up soon.)

Squirrel Unit Study Resources

Owl Resources

Fox Resources (Small)

Here's a little craft that we did last year. 

Thanksgiving Craft

As for science, any time the seasons change is a great time to study the weather!!

Weather Activities

Weather Activities 2

Weather Resources

There you have it! I am planning some NEW resources posts for this month!!! 

                      HAVE FUN LEARNING!!!!

Our Week in Review - Special Field Trip

The 3 youngest and I went on a very special field trip last Saturday. Once a year Henricus Historical Park does it's Publick Day. It's FREE!! I am all about FREE. ;) I have been wanting to take the kids for years but one thing or another always got in the way. Not sure why, it wasn't very far....  Not this year!! We got to go and took some friends along. 

A couple of things about Henricus Historial Park :
It is a remake of the Citie of Henricus, the 2nd successful settlement of the Virginia colony, built in 1611.
Pocahontas actually spent some time there.
At the park the kids are encouraged to touch "everything but the fires".

Here the kids are being instructed in what their jobs might have been had they lived then.
They picked up rocks and threw them at imaginary groundhogs to keep them away from the garden. 

 We went inside a yehakin (the Native American dwelling). The kids got to touch everything within the building.

Afterwards, the kids got a demonstration in canoe building. They even got to try it themselves!

Here Cailey and Colin are grinding corn to make cornmeal for cornbread!

All of the actors were great with kids! They got to try on armor, play games that kids played in 1611 and see how the Native Americans cooked their food.

Here they are watching a village lady prepare food, defending the fort, testing the weight of saber and "shooting" a canon. 


I took a lot of pictures that day! So much that my phone went dead! LOL 

There were a couple of things that I missed getting pictures of :
Pocahontas (we got to speak with her and ask questions)
The first hospital in the New World
The cannon firing
The ship

Check around your area! You never know what you might find to do!!!! Or what might be free! ;)


                      HAVE FUN LEARNING!!!

American Revolution Resources

Now that I am back to sewing, I want to make sure that I have equal blog time for homeschooling. Actually, that's not too difficult to do around here. Now, if I still had a sewing room that might be different... As it is, I have to completely clear 2 ends of my table for sewing, 1 for cutting and pressing, the other for actually sewing. Clearing that much off is a little difficult when we are homeschooling 4 kids! They have to sit somewhere! 



Moving on with my homeschooling posts, the next one up is the American Revolution. 

I am about a year ahead in my planning for history and that's just the way I like it! ;) 

With other subjects like science, animal studies, etc., we tend to do whatever we feel like. I just have to hope that I already have something planned out for whatever they want to do! LOL 



As always, I try to include resources for a variety of ages. All books can be found at your local library or on Amazon .

I am not affiliated in any way with any site. I won't make a dime from any link you click. I just like to give you as many options as possible. 

All printable resources are free unless marked with $$$.

There are sooooo many books for this topic that I am just going to highlight a few and then give you a link for the rest. LOL 

DK Eyewitness 

Jean Fritz

Dear America

If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution

If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution

My Name Is America

Magic Tree House Research Guide

Magic Tree House - Revolutionary War on Wednesday 

Dover Coloring Books

Founding Fathers

Founding Brothers

Founding Mothers

OTHER REVOLUTIONARY WAR BOOKS

HERE is a link for Kindle Books. 

Coloring Pages - Patriotic Coloring Pages

Coloring Pages - VRML

Coloring Pages and Worksheets - School Express

Lapbook and Unit Study - Notebooking Nook

Lapbook and Unit Study - Tina's Dynamic Homeschool

Lapbook, Unit Study and Projects - 123 Homeschool 4 Me

Lapbooks - Homeschool Helper Online

Lapbooks and Unit Study - Homeschool Share

Mini Books - U.S. History (scroll down)

Notebooking Pages - Homeschool Helper Online

Notebooking Pages - Practical Pages (Scroll Down)

Notebooking Pages and Mini Books - HS Launch (you may need to enter search words)

Printables and Lesson Plans - Mr. Donn

Printables and More - Mr. Nussbaum

Worksheets - abc teach

Worksheets - Education.com

Worksheets - Homeschooling.About.com

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Teachers Pay Teachers  (Some FREE)

Activities - Adventures in Mommydom

Activities - All Things Beautiful

Activities - Education.com

Activities, Lesson Plans and Quizzes - Book Units Teacher

Crafts - A Book in Time

Game - For Crown or Colony - Missions US

Games and Videos - Neo K12

Independence Hall Virtual Tour - Google Cultural Institute

Info - How Stuff Works

Info - Library of Congress 

Info - Our American Revolution

Info - The American Revolution 

Interactive Pages - Revolutionary War Animated

Lesson Plans - AmRevMuseum

Lesson Plans and More - Mr Donn

Sensory Bin - 3 Dinosaurs

Timelines - The History Place

Unit Study - Homeschool Helper Online

Video - Crash Course - YouTube

Video - LIBERTY! - PBS - YouTube

Videos - Early America

Videos - Have Fun with History

Videos - Liberty's Kids - YouTube 

Videos - Schoolhouse Rock Playlist - YouTube

Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution - US History

Netflix has Horrible Histories - Revolting Revolution

HAVE FUN LEARNING!!!

Daniel Boone Unit Study Resources

I put this group of resources together to go along with the French and Indian War and the unit I am putting together for the American Revolution.

As always, I try to include resources for a variety of ages. All books can be found at your local library or on Amazon.

All printable resources are free unless marked with $$$$.

































































































Activity Sheets - Daniel Boone Home (scroll down to the bottom)

Coloring Page - USA Printables

Coloring Pages - Patriotic Coloring Pages

Coloring Pages and Worksheets - Education.com

Lapbook - Tina's Dynamic Homeschool

Notebooking Page - Homeschool Helper Online

Notebooking Page - HSLaunch (You may need to type Daniel Boone into the search box.)

Timeline Printables - History.org

Unit Study with Printables - DIY Homeschooler

Worksheets and Info - Jefferson Schools, KY

Worksheets, Info and More - Garden of Praise (Scroll down for the printables)



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Activities, Crafts and Info - Lesson Pathways

Audio Program - Homeschool Freebie of the Day

Craft and Activity - Education.com

Info - Biography.com

Info - Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail

Info - Ducksters

Info and Online Book - Early America

Info and Video - Mr Nussbaum

Make a Poster - Art Skills

Make Your Own Coonskin Cap - Handmade Mommy

Make Your Own Moccasin Boots - eHow

Online Books - Pawpaw Holler Home

Timeline - Boone Association

Unit Study - Squidoo

Videos - Watch Know Learn



*****RABBIT TRAILS*****

Native American Resources

Bear Resources

Colonial America Resources

French and Indian War Resources







HAVE FUN HOMESCHOOLING!!!!

The French and Indian War Resources

As always, I try to include resources for a variety of ages. All books can be found at your local library or on Amazon.

All printable resources are free unless marked with $$$$.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a whole lot out there for studying The French and Indian War but I did my best to find what I could! ;)













































Coloring Page - jennsartory.com

Coloring Pages and more - Learning and Sharing

Lapbook and Notebooking Pages - New Bee Homeschooler

Notebooking Pages - Hebrews 110 (Scroll Down)

Notebooking Pages - Practical Pages (Scroll Down)

Worksheets - Carteret School (Scroll Down)

Worksheets - Miss Estes' History Class

Worksheets - Miss Person's History

Worksheet - Mrs Brooks 5th Grade Class

Worksheets - Mr Nussbaum

Worksheets - SOE.UNC.edu

Worksheets - Teacher Vision (you get 5 free)

Worksheets - War for Empire



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Info - Education.com

Info - Military History About.com

Info - History.com

Info - Plains of Abraham

Info - Shmoop

Info and Video - Education Portal

Info and Video - Warpaths 2 Peacepipes

Interactive Info - NCDCR

Interactive Info - Revolutionary War Animated - This is AWESOME!!!!!

Lesson Plans and Activities - Mr Donn

Timeline - Social Studies for Kids

Video - Fort Ticonderoga - Have Fun with History

Video - The War That Made America - YouTube





Crafts and activities for this era would still fall under Colonial America.





HAVE FUN LEARNING!!!!