Plymouth Pockets

Here are some pics from our Plymouth unit we have been working on. This first pocket is Coming to the New World. Each pocket has different activities, some activities I let all three children complete, if it includes a lot of writing Carson does it and the girls like to do the coloring and pasting. We also do a word wall. Each pocket has 4 vocabulary words that the children learn and we have reviewed each week.

This was soo sweet!! Each of the children colored a storage trunk and on the inside were three things they would have taken with them to the New World. Below is Carson's....
toys, clothes, game boy, books and his SISTERS!!! How sweet is that???????

Madelyn shows you the Mayflower Compact, and the rest of the New World Pocket.
Building a Village Pocket
Home Sweet Home Pocket-The kids made a diorama of the keeping room.

Okay I know it seems weird to be studying Pilgrims in January, so let me explain! We love Evan-Moor Pockets. We began the Plymouth Pockets in November so we could line them up with Thanksgiving...so we are still finishing this unit up. The children have learned so much!! I like digging deeper into a subject and stretching it out. I know the way I learned most Science and History subjects was more of a "dip off the top"..we skimmed through the same topics each year...and it never felt thorough. Some refer to this as the spiral approach (think about plants, water cycle etc) so I am trying to lean a bit more into the immersion approach.

More pics to follow....