Frontiersmen/Tracking/Trading/Moving West
Throughout the Week:
Psalm 100:5
Lewis and Clark activities
Read Little House on the Prairie
Make a pioneer town
Math
Phonics/Reading/Spelling
Music
Monday:
Read about Paul’s 1st Journey (Acts 13-14)
Map making – make maps of our home, town and state
Learn how to use a compass
Play the Stalk the Stake game
Grizzly Bears - http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm (brown bear visuals)
Going on a bear hunt
The Bear went over the mountain
Bear Craft - http://www.dltk-kids.com/t_template.asp?t=http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/image/cbear.gif
Poem of the day: To a Friend
Bunny Muffin Snack
Tuesday:
Read about Paul’s 2nd Journey (Acts 15:39-18:22)
Make simulated coonskin caps
Make a “buckskin” shirt
Make a cardboard knife and tie for belt
Make your own “possible bag”
Poem of the Day: Feelings
Peanut Butter Pinwheels
Wednesday:
Read about Paul’s 3rd Journey (Acts 18:23-21:16)
Trace Kit Carson’s wonderings from Tennessee to Santa Fe to Taos to El Paso to CA via the dessert
Rewrite old quote using proper grammar
Read parts from “Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier”
Make a Spring Mural
Poem of the day: A Kite
Metamorphosnack
Thursday:
Read about Paul’s 4th Journey (Acts 27-28:16)
Talk about Davey Crockett and other legendary heroes
Learn the song “Davey Crockett”
Map Tennessee to San Antonio, TX
Spring Cleaning Lesson
Poem of the day: Trying to Tie my Shoe
Quick Chick Snack
Friday:
Read Mark 16:14-18
Dramatize Lewis and Clark Expedition
Read Lewis and Clark Journals and write down some of their observations about the plans and animals they saw.
Make up tall tales like the mountain men did around their campfires after the big hunt.
Leave mountain men signs for the others to find you.
Go on a family wilderness hike
Have traders/trappers contests
Collect specimens of animals/plants/rocks for President Jefferson
Make water “safe to drink” just as Lewis and Clark would have had to
Poem of the Day: Raindrops
Kite Bite Snacks
