American History
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History Songs For Kids
Top 10 Teaching History Helps: History Songs For Kids! Welcome back to the “Top 10 Teaching History Helps” series! What do you remember about History from your school days? Was it a fun hands-on project that brought George Washington’s Christmas crossing on the Delaware to life? Maybe a teacher who stood on a desk to recite Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty, or give me death!” speech? Or maybe you weren’t fortunate enough to have a teacher like that, and you just snoozed your way through History. No matter what our own experiences may have been, we can make History exciting, memorable, and ALIVE for our kids! This series is packed…
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Top 10 History Podcasts For Kids
Welcome to Part 1 in the “Top 10 Teaching History Helps”: History Podcasts For Kids! Welcome to the very first post in the brand new “Teaching History Helps” series! Whether you are gearing up for the new school year and looking to add some fun to your history study, halfway through your homeschooling year and needing a little boost to your history curriculum, or if you are just feeling like history is one of those boring subjects that can’t possibly be FUN, these teaching history helps posts are JUST FOR YOU!! What are these posts about? If you have followed Fields of Daisies for very long, you know I am…
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History Timelines For Kids
Top 10 History TIMELINES For Kids! Welcome back to the “Top 10 Teaching History Helps” series! Quick History test! No Googling! What was the date that the Civil War began? How about World War I ? And can you recall the date that the Wright Brothers took off from Kitty Hawk? Maybe some of you were able to pop up these dates right off the top of your head… but most of us would have had a harder time remembering the EXACT date. Now go back and look at those 3 events. Can you put them in the correct chronological order? I bet we all can do that!…
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A Colonial Christmas – Hands On History
What was Christmas like in Colonial times? Close your eyes. When you picture Christmas in your mind, what do you see? Jesus as a baby in a stable? Christmas lights? Beautiful trees covered with decorations? Food? Family? Friends? Santa? And PRESENTS ?!?!? What if I told you that there was a time in our country’s history that a child might have answered like this: A fabulous feast of fish, flesh, and fowl! In the year 1608, Captain John Smith wrote this, “The next night being lodged at Kecoughtan; six or seaven dayes the extreame winde, rayne, frost and snow caused us to keep Christmas among the Salvages, where we were never…
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Josefina’s Southwest Christmas- Hands-On History
What was Christmas like in America’s Southwest Frontier? It’s 1824… the warm dusty streets are filled with all the sights, sounds and smells of Christmas! Biscochos, piñon smoke, farolitos, las posadas, and mariachi! Maybe this sounds like Christmas in another country to you! Nope! These are all some of the things Josefina Montoya loved about Christmas in her beloved Santa Fe! While Christmas in the early 1800’s wasn’t being celebrated in a big way in most places in America just yet, Christmas was a very special and important part of the culture of New Mexico! If you want to add to this Christmas study, you can learn all about Josefina…
