The Story of the U.S.A Book 1

Chapter 1 The First Americans

Begin reading:

North American Indians

Intro, Southeast Indians (M- 1,2) (T-1)

Night Bird: A Story of the Seminole Indians (T-2) (M-4)

The Seminole

Seminole Children and Elders Talk Together

Optional: The Indian Book (1980 Annual Childcraft)

–Read stories from it for the different Indian tribes

Click here to see this topic's History pocket and notebooking materials

History Pockets Native Americans:

Pocket 1 (pages 1-10) Intro

Map and chart of Native American tribes

Comparison chart

Picture Dictionary

HP: Pocket 9

(pages 84-93)

The Seminole of the Southeast

Booklet

Headdress *optional supplies: beads or sequins

Hominy recipe booklet

Map or Globe

(M)

1. Florida, Georgia

2. Indian Regions Activity
This is a very nice 2 page printable with an indian regions map as well as reading material and a compass activity. *OR do the History Pockets map from pocket 1 (We did both!)

3. Use the Teacher’s Guide for maps on pages 4 and 12 to label the following mentioned in the Wayne Drop storybook (science):

Orlando, Turkey Lake, Lake Kissimmee, Kissimmee River, Lake Okeechobee, Coloosahatchee River, St. Lucie River, Palm Beach Canal, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Fort Myers, San Carlos Bay, Alligator Alley, Miami, Tamaimi Trail, Shark River Slough, Florida Bay and Florida Keys

(Answers are provided –You can either hand out the copy with the answers and color in parts, or hand out the blank copy and have it labeled depending on time constraints/interest).

You may also want to point out where Cape Canaveral is (and let your child know that is where NASA is located), Disney World and any other cities or places of interest (use an atlas).

4. Oklahoma

History Pockets Map Stamp

Optional: Regions map, fill in as the books are read (label, draw in pictures of regional Indian housing, etc.) This map is not as nice as the map assignment #2. Use it if you'd like one that is more "plain".

1. Osceola 1804-1838

2. Seminole Wars 1835-1858
(Emphasize as you put this into the timeline that this was the period of time that Night Bird’s family was hiding and then moved to Oklahoma. Paste a picture of the book cover in).

Write a sequencing paragraph (Write instructions on how to do or make something using the “first, next, then and last” model). –Do this after making the hominy recipe booklet in History Pockets.

Sequence chart

Draw Write Now: p.26-27 Pots and Baskets

If the Journey of Wayne Drop was used (from science): Write or dictate a paper pretending to be a raindrop. Describe your journey.

The Journey of Wayne Drop to the Everglades (Interactive Storybook) M-3

OR (maybe even in addition to)

Download the PDF version of the story above (learn not only about the water cycle but also about Florida’s lakes, rivers, animals and more). The PDF is nice because at the end of the story it shows satellite image maps with areas mentioned marked AND there is a fun game at the end to play.

Teacher’s Guide for Wayne Drop book: Use whichever lessons interest you (watershed, water cycle, food chains and food webs, bird “adaptations” (or rather how God created them to be), native and exotic species in the everglades and much more. There are hands-on activities, vocabulary, some writing, experiments, links to multimedia and more.

Wee Sing: We Love the U.S.A.

http://www.glifwc.org/pub/summer01/hominy.htm

My son was curious as to how hominy was originally made and this article explains the process (I read parts of it out loud to him). We do NOT recommend this as a project due to the use of lye.

Look up authentic chickees on Google (search at your own risk)

Listen to some “Florida music” (with some historical and cultural notes)