Adventures in America
An Introduction to American History for the Early Grammar Stage Primary School - ages 5-9, or grades K-4 You can purchase a teacher manual and student text from http://www.elementalhistory.com/ I suggest a print version of the teacher manual. Should be well worth the extra $5! In order to complete the State Studies, you will need a copy of Smart About the Fifty States (Smart About History)
You will also need set of US State and Territory Assorted Stickers (120 Pack)
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Extras
SFA Week 3 (Adventures in America Week 1)
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There are many additional reading suggestions throughout the year. Included here are three lists of books: Student Readers are for students in grades 1-4 who can read beginning readers ranging from Level 1-5; Read Alouds are chapter books read aloud to students at about a chapter a day, five days per week; Related Picture Books are for reading aloud to younger students who do not yet have the attention span to listen to chapter books with few pictures. Most of the picture books, if not all, can be found in the public library. You may also borrow the readers and chapter books from the library, or you can purchase them. Links are provided for ordering through SFA's amazon store. You might also search for used copies at yard sales, used book stores, or online.
Read Aloud Titles
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Note: Some of these titles can be read by students in grades 2+
Related Picture Books (about one per week)
North American Indians by Douglas Gorsline
Columbus by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 by Betsy & Giulio Maestro
Pocahontas by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
The Thanksgiving Story by Dalgliesh
If You Were at the First Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma
Daniel Boone: Woodsman of Kentucky by John Paul Zronik
Benjamin Franklin by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern
George Washington by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Boston Tea Party by Steven Kroll
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrations by Ted Rand
The 4th of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and Victory by James Knight
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution by Kay Moore
A More Perfect Union: They Story of Our Constitution by Betsy Maestro
A New Nation: The United States: 1783-1815 by Betsy Maestro
The Star Spangled Banner, illus. by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
How We Crossed the West, by Rosalyn Schanzer
Sacagawea, by Liselotte Erdrich
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, by Paul Erickson
Ox-Cart Man, by Donald Hall
They’re Off! The Story of the Pony Express, by Cheryl Harness
Gold Fever!, by Rosalyn Schanzer
Who Owns the Sun?, by Stacy Chbosky
Follow the Drinking Gourd, by Jeanette Winter
Abraham Lincoln, by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln, by Jean Fritz
Ten Mile Day and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad, by Mary Ann Fraser
John Henry, by Ezra Jack Keats
A Picture Book of Davy Crockett, by David A. Adler
Paul Bunyan, by Steven Kellogg
North American Indians by Douglas Gorsline
Columbus by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus: 1500-1620 by Betsy & Giulio Maestro
Pocahontas by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
The Thanksgiving Story by Dalgliesh
If You Were at the First Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma
Daniel Boone: Woodsman of Kentucky by John Paul Zronik
Benjamin Franklin by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern
George Washington by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
The Boston Tea Party by Steven Kroll
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrations by Ted Rand
The 4th of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and Victory by James Knight
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution by Kay Moore
A More Perfect Union: They Story of Our Constitution by Betsy Maestro
A New Nation: The United States: 1783-1815 by Betsy Maestro
The Star Spangled Banner, illus. by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
How We Crossed the West, by Rosalyn Schanzer
Sacagawea, by Liselotte Erdrich
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, by Paul Erickson
Ox-Cart Man, by Donald Hall
They’re Off! The Story of the Pony Express, by Cheryl Harness
Gold Fever!, by Rosalyn Schanzer
Who Owns the Sun?, by Stacy Chbosky
Follow the Drinking Gourd, by Jeanette Winter
Abraham Lincoln, by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln, by Jean Fritz
Ten Mile Day and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad, by Mary Ann Fraser
John Henry, by Ezra Jack Keats
A Picture Book of Davy Crockett, by David A. Adler
Paul Bunyan, by Steven Kellogg