Today, I’m sharing a quick way I add a bit of history fun. I have these free westward ho history cards. Also, you’ll love my unit study BEST Westward Ho Unit Study and Lapbook!
I have a new term called hodgepodge homeschooling because that is what it may end up being this month depending on how fast we sell our big furniture items and get the house up for sale.
First, look at these fun Westward expansion resources.
10 Westward Expansion Resources
Add in a few books and resources to bring the study of the Oregon Trail to life during the United States expansion of the west.
Your Life as a Pioneer on The Oregon Trail, has some funny illustrations and great information for this unit study.
Of course ALL the Little House Books are some of the best about pioneer life.
The Ingalls are the most famous pioneers and westward moving families.
A True Book: Westward Expansion takes readers on an amazing journey to a fascinating time in U.S. history when the country was experiencing dynamic change and expanding westward.
In this boxed set, choose your own trail and complete the journey to Oregon City with all four paperbacks in this exciting series! It's 1850 and your first goal is to get your family, covered wagon full of supplies, and oxen to Chimney Rock on time.
- It's a race to Willamette Valley as you join the wagon train and seek your fortune in the West!
Apples, ho! When Papa decides to pull up roots and move from Iowa to Oregon, he can’t bear to leave his precious apple trees behind. Or his peaches, plums, grapes, cherries, and pears. Oh, and he takes his family along too.
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to
ocean
Try your luck, and search for your fortune in California! Follow the joy and heartbreak of the '49ers during the California Gold Rush.
In 1853, the Larkin family loaded up their wagons and headed west in search of a new life. But how did they do it? What did they eat? How did they survive sickness, and attacks from cattle thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual object from the past, Daily Life in a Covered Wagon explored what life was really like on the wagon trail.
Illustrations and simple rhyming text follow Mother, Father, and Baby John as they make the difficult journey by wagon to a new home across the Rocky Mountains in the fertile Sacramento Valley of California. By the creators of Gold Fever.
One of them that Tiny needs to revisit because he was very young when we studied it the first and second time is my Westward Ho unit.
Too, I made some Westward Ho history cards to add to it because this allows him to study and memorize the important facts.
Free Westward Ho History Cards
They highlight that time period on his own in case my time is tied up the rest of this month.
This way he can cut them out, hang on an O ring and study on his own.
I plan to make some more history cards as we go along and probably create some for my other units too.
Actually, this will be a nice change for our school because Tiny can review what I have and I can add some new updates to my previous unit studies.
Keeping school easy will be my focus the rest of this month as we take a big step to our move.
I’m so excited about this weekend and kind of having mixed feelings when you see so much of your personal things going.
I am keeping my vision clear though of South America and the fun we will have when we get there.
More Printable History Cards to Put an O Ring
- Free Homeschool History Cards – French and Indian War
- Ancient Civilizations.
- and Titanic Sank April 15 – Free History Cards.
You’ll love these other homeschool history resources:
- Westward Ho! Lapbook
- Gunfight at O.K. Corral – American History through the Life of Wyatt Earp
- 18 Amazing Kids Subscription Boxes to Try Right Now
- 7 Educational Movies for Kids About Westward Expansion.
- 6 Unit Study Resources: Mountain Men – Explorers of the West
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What a great resource, Tina! Thanks for stopping by and sharing with The Thoughtful Spot!
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