ADV Weeks 4-5

[Scott Sorrell]

Adventures in MFW Weeks 4-5

[Daisy]

We added additional crafts from History Pockets to the Native American week. We saved them all up for the week (without showing Dad). On Satruday morning we made a Native American museum and displayed all our crafts. My daughter dressed up in a Pocahontas costume and acted as tour guide for her Dad. She told him everything she had learned that week. We also made Navajo fry bread, Pemmican (beef jerky) and other traditional Indian foods to share. It was a great conclusion to a really fun week. This would be a great "open house" idea for grandparents or other family members.

[lisa062797]

For Week 4...We found a fun book at our library called "More Than Moccasins," by Laurie Carlson. It is subtitled "A Kid's Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life." It has all kinds of activities, crafts, and recipes...just under 200 pages! It sure is hard picking out just a few things for the week, but I'm sure we'll be checking it out again, so I wrote a few activities into my planner, as well as a different treat/food to make each day this week. I wasn't even going to look through this book at first, but the wigwam project today and the upcoming tepee project really motivated both of us to look for more!

We are also planning a field trip for Friday to our historical society. They have an exhibit with either a life-size wigwam or tepee, or both, that you can walk into and see different items that would be in there. Very neat, and I can't wait...looking forward to the rest of the week!

[Laura M]

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:15 pm

I found a charming book at the library and wanted to share it with anyone else doing Adventures. The title is "Three young pilgrims" by Cheryl Harness. It is a sweet story about a family who traveled on the Mayflower and is richly illustrated.

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:56 am
Posted by: claraskids

I've done that book in the past when I was still in the classroom. The kids were always fascinated with the info on what happened to the Pilgrims later in life (ie - who married who; who died young; etc.). Really helped them understand that this part of history is real, not just a nice story.
Of course, they also got such a kick out of some of the names. Especially the Brewster boys - Love and Wrestling!

I'll have to remember to dig it out for next month. Thanks!

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:58 pm
Posted by: Winkie

love this book! But I'm a little biased, since I'm a descendent of Isaac Allerton. :-)

[Mercy]

For those of you who are looking for books to buy for this year...

One of the BEST book basket books that we have enjoyed for the constellations was the book by H.A. Rey called Find the Constellations. I'm thinking of buying this book for our home library just for reference.

We are SO enjoying this year!!!

Thanks piled upon thanks to the Hazells!

~Mercy & Family

[dena in ms]

For those of you who are looking for books to buy for this year...

One of the BEST book basket books that we have enjoyed for the constellations was the book by H.A. Rey called Find the Constellations. I'm thinking of buying this book for our home library just for reference.

We are SO enjoying this year!!!

Thanks piled upon thanks to the Hazells!

~Mercy & Family

Ditto!! I bought this book at Barnes and Noble and it has been my kids favorite so far, it is a great book!

[doubleportion]

We have enjoyed using "Meet The Pilgrim Fathers" by Elizabeth Payne and the Abeka reader "Pilgrim Boy" for additional read aloud time, since we finished Squanto early (we were both crying through the last few chapters).

[tabby]

Okay, maybe I am waaaay to visual. But am having a very hard time envisioning what this sun wall hanger is suppose to look like. Does anyone have a picture they could share? Thanks,
Edie

Here are some internet links with a couple of pics that may give you some direction.
http://crafterstouch.com/projectpage.aspx?projectid=105
http://artfulparent.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/tissue-paper-stained-glass/

The suncatcher we did today :). Sorry it is so big. The finished size is around 9x11 inches.
http://s516.photobucket.com/albums/u327 ... CN2071.jpg
http://s516.photobucket.com/albums/u327 ... CN2069.jpg

[cbollin]

(edit to say.... looks like Tabby and I were typing the same time)

Basically you are making a double side picture frame. The picture is the melted wax crayons with sun colors. The frames are the paper plates. They are placed “back to back” with the wax paper in the middle. Or at least that’s what I did from the instructions

side angle

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-crystal

[doubleportion]

One really neat book which we will be cooking from this weekend is
"Food and Recipes of the Pilgrims" by George Erdosh. Great info and pictures with some nice recipes you can easily cook. It is not Thanksgiving specific either.

And a nice independent reader is "Young Squanto- The First Thanksgiving" by Andrew Woods

We have enjoyed reading these.

:)
Edie

[mommccoy]

Thanks for recommending this book: "More Than Moccasins".
My 2 boys loved making pueblos and indian clothes this last week! The ideas and supplies were simple and fun. We could have spent days doing all the projects... but we'll save that for future years of learning.

[KimberlyND]

I found that a carrot (vegetable) peeler works much better than a knife to make crayon shavings. With the knife I was breaking the crayon and didn't get very nice shavings. The carrot peeler made nice uniform shavings.

[KimberlyND]

We had a hard time glueing the wigwam together. We ended up with a sticky mess. The frame held together well. But the "bark" covering didn't curve or stick well with glue. Another mother used a flour and water paste and said it worked well. I can visualize how that would be. If you could soak the "bark" in the paste it would then bend better. It would save alot of frustration for the student and teacher.

[LA in Baltimore]

I have to agree with Kimberly about the wigwam mess. The children began to lose hope that it would work out. The frame went well, but the bark covering got soooo messy and was hard to get pliable enough to stay on the wigwam. I started helping 2 of my 3 at that point and we got through it. I'm glad I pushed them to finish it even if it we decided not to keep them because they thought they looked ugly. The finished product - after they dried - looked marvelous!!

LA in Baltimore
Homeschooling my 4 (Ages 16, 10, 9, and 8)
First Year with MFW

[meagabby]

We, too, loved making the wigwams and had very little trouble after we figured out to hold one end of the piece of paper while dipping the other end in glue and using that glue-dipped end to 'drag' the glue where we needed it on the framework. It is one of my favorite memories of Adventures.

Dena
used MFW 1st, Adventures, ECC, partial K
and now CtG and 1st again

[gr8kdsmom]

Just wanted to share what I learned about making the wigwams. We did it at home and it turned out so well that my son took it to his Cub Scout meeting when they were talking about Native Americans. They asked us to help everyone make one the next week. From our experiences, I would say that a little thinner paper and possibly Tacky Glue works the best. At Cub Scouts, I had bought a pack of brown heavy-duty construction paper, and it didn't work as well as our thinner paper at home. In addition, we used Tacky Glue mixed with a little water for the wigwam at home because we were out of Elmer's School Glue. At Cub Scouts, we used Elmer's Glue. The Elmer's Glue might have worked fine and the problem was just the thicker paper, but I'm not sure. If I had to do it again, I would use thinner paper and Tacky Glue. By the way, my son LOVED this project! Don't skip it!

[doubleportion]

Posted Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:50 am by doubleportion

We are on week 5 of ADV. I did find a few books that were not on our TM book list but really great books:
Pocahontas- by Liz Sonneborn
Explore Colonial Jamestown by Elaine Landau

We loved the More Than Moccasins book recommended in the ADV archive. We will probably check it out again in the future to do some of the extra activities in it we just didn't get to in week 4.

[Archiver2]

How many of you used this book in your book basket during week 4 of Adventures? I have previewed it and am undecided on how my sensitive dd would handle this book. Opinions and experiences with it would be helpful. How did you talk about or explain the story to your children. I don't know enough about the Algonquin (sp?) Indians religion to be able to refute the questions this story may bring up, and then compare it with what we know as truth. Or do you just present it as an Indian fairy tale and leave it at that?
Edie

Post Posted Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:55 pm by henryteachers

We absolutely loved this book. If you explain it as an Indian fairy tale and relate it to the familiar Cinderella tale, I think your family will enjoy it too. I loved how it taught that true beauty lies within and that faith, courage,and kindness conquers all. We had just made wigwams and teepees for a project with Adventures so it was fun to see this in the book too. I don't think you'll be disappointed. If I remember correctly, I think the Hazels gave the book a star* by it which mean it is excellent and you don't want to miss out on it.

P.S.--Their God is mentioned as the invisible being so you could also mention that they believe differently than you do and call God something else.

Post Posted Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:12 pm by TurnOurHearts

We used it as a VERY gentle springboard for discussing wrong beliefs/belief systems and how they can SOUND very similar to things we hold as truth. There are so many homeschool curricula that introduce other gods as major themes in their early-year programs. MFW concentrates on God as the one true God from day one. We had no problem talking though this book (spiritually) and we enjoyed it very much, too. Personally, I don't think we have to know everything about other religions. It's kind of the philosophy that you've heard of with FBI agents who work against counterfeit money? They can't know all the counterfeit possibilities ~ they just learn the original article so well that they can spot a fake a mile away. The closer we walk with the Genuine Article, the more convinced we become of His power & authority.

Also, I find with my kids the simpler the explanation, the better. They don't want or need as much info as we sometimes want to give. And don't be afraid to tell them, "I don't know. We'll have to look that up." That's good stuff, too.

(Sorry if I'm rambling all over tonight ~ it's been a long day! Hope this makes sense!!)

Post Posted Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:18 pm by Ariasarias

My girls loved the story and still ask for it. I think it is because it so closely resembles Cinderella which has also been a very big character teacher for us -- kindness, service, hope, contentment, etc.

Post Posted Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:47 am by cbollin

I decided to go check out this book and use it during ECC weeks 3 and 4 with US study a couple of weeks ago.

Oh wow! What a great story. Maybe it is the looking back 5 years or whatever, but what I saw in this story was how eternity was written on their hearts even tho the details got a little confused after the years and no longer were the real deal (like Paige had in her analogy about the money). I don't know if any of you have read that book in your adult life to understand that connection. But what a connection is there! wow!!! Are you remembering to teach your children how to use those things to present the right thing? Didn't Paul have to do that in Athens with the statue to the unknown god??? anyway.... sorry 'bout that

then there was the character lessons that were there just in the story.

just one opinion. I liked the book.
-crystal

[Archiver2]

Postby Ella » Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:55 pm

Ours were messy too:) I ended up with glue all over but they turned out pretty good. My three oldest made one and had fun playing with their "indian village" Over all I thought it was a good project.
Ella

Postby goatsandadonkey » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:38 pm

We experimented with different sizes of paper to glue to the wigwam. We had more success with larger pieces of torn paper, instead of little tiny ones. We did it on a paper plate and it's stuck to the plate! We haven't cut the door out yet. Once it dried, it was pretty nice.

Postby Jen in IA » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:51 pm

I feel so much better now! Not that I normally feel good as others struggles:) We fought those wigwams and couldn't get them to turn out. DD and I were both covered in glue and just have two sticky brown messes. DS got out some tape later after his frame had dried and just taped the "bark" to the frame. His doesn't look too bad.

I was feeling very hard on myself at being so craft-challenged today. I was an art major in college -- I should be able to handle this stuff! Oh well, looking forward to a simpler TP project tomorrow!
Jennifer

Postby mom2boys » Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:07 am

Even though I have olders (4th & 7th) we did this as it is listed as an option in EXP to 1850. I could not find our elmer's glue anywhere and did not think glue sticks would work so I made a flour and water paste and my boys made it paper mache style. They turned out great! So that is an option if someone hasn't gotten that far yet.
~Charlotte

Postby doubleportion » Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:03 pm

We didn't have any problems with this. We made it out of brown construction paper and used a paper plate as the work base. I had my dd use a q-tip dipped in a dixie cup of glue. She used larger pieces of ripped paper for the "bark" covering. It dried over night and then we cut the hole out for the smoke. Maybe if you get the construction paper too wet with glue I could see it getting mushy. After it was dry we left it on the paper plate and dd drew things on the plate to create a little scenery. She really enjoyed this project!

Edie

Postby cbollin » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:41 pm

I just remembered a post from Tina on this about something with glue. It was in the context of EX1850, so it wasn't a lot in there, but worth a quick look????
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4847&p=41502#p41502
-crystal

Posted Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:59 pm by dhudson

When mine were in ADV, I had them make the wigwams around an upside down bowl to maintain the shape. When the wigwam was dry, I took the bowl out and it was great!

[trinabambina]

We ended up making a tepee out of pvc pipe (a freecycle find), landscape fabric, and yarn. The kids had fun, working with Daddy, to get the poles arranged properly, and then they got to help sew the fabric in place. It is pretty sturdy (though not very pretty), but they have had fun playing in it, we have been doing our reading in it, and we hope to paint symbols on the outside later in the week. All in all, a pretty easy, cheap project!

[Happyhousewife]

Trina, That looks great. I'll bet the kids had a great time.

[trinabambina]

To learn the verse for this week, John 8:12 "I am the light of the world, he who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.", I took the kids to the basement, with a flash light. It is pitch dark down there w/o lights, so we tried walking and saw how hard it was. Then, I turned on the flash light, and we walked over and around everything easily. They thought it was so cool - and they got the verse right away!

[cbollin]

Just in case Erna never figures out her username and password on this forum. LOL... but if you do, then my copy and paste for you can disappear. they'll figure it out.

Erna had a nice activity to share to replace week 5 crayon shaving.....

Erna VH wrote:
> I don't know how many might be behind me in schedule but I imagine
> many may be ahead of me. At any rate, instead of doing a crayon
> shaving activity again I cut circles out of clear contact paper to
> attach to the paper plates. We used cut up pieces of yellow and
> orange tissue paper for the sun instead. The great thing was that my
> leftie could join in and my toddler loved it too. :0) I thought I'd
> pass it along in case someone else wanted to do something different.