Meet Kaya: An American Girl M-1

Welcome to Kaya's World 1764: Growing Up in a Native American Homeland
(There are more Kaya books, if your child enjoys these!)

Optional: The Indian Book (1980 Annual Childcraft)

History Pockets Native Americans:

Pocket 4: Nez Perce T-1

Fact sheet

Booklet

Appaloosa ornament *yarn or other string/ribbonoptional feather, beads

Chief Joseph

Map or Globe

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2. 1764 Meet Kaya: An American girl (book cover)

Draw Write Now:

p.22-23 Picture Writing

Picture writing printable worksheet A "hide" on the first sheet has all sorts of picture writing symbols on it. The 2nd sheet has "blank hides" so you can write your own story out of symbols. This would be a good time to talk about other forms of picture writing -how the Egyptians used it and how Chinese characters came from pictures, etc. Ask your child why writing with pictures would get pretty cumbersome after awhile (because you'd have to remember "pictures" for everything vs. the 26 letters of our alphabet with some 70 or so sound combinations, etc.)

Horse Story Worksheet Use this to write a story about a horse or about Kaya.
Horse dot-to-dot
This dot-to-dot is pretty simple. My son likes dot-to-dots though and so I decided to include it.

Appaloosa Coloring Book
Color the pictures of the appaloosas (or paint them) for your notebook. Write some facts on the back from an encyclopedia, book or online.

The Nez Perce raised horses so I've found some horse activities to go along with this topic!
Horse anatomy printable / worksheet
Horse anatomy quiz

Kaya’s Mountain Escape Interactive Flash game

Field trip suggestion: See if you can visit an equestrian center and arrange some horseback or pony riding!