Saturday, June 18, 2011

Resourcefulness - Fronteir Life

2 comments:

Shannon said...

Pre-K to 1st Grade Level:
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express by Coerr, Eleanor (Good)
Dance at Grandpa's by Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Good)
Christmas in the Big Woods by Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Good)
A farmer boy birthday by Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Good)
Going to town by Wilder, Laura Ingalls (Good)
Apples to Oregon by Hopkinson, Deborah (Good)
Chang's paper pony by Coerr, Eleanor (Gold rush) (Good)
Dakota dugout by Turner, Ann Warren (Fine)
Projects about westward expansion by Broida, Marian. (Fine)
My little house songbook by Laura Ingalls Wilder; illustrated by Holly Jones (Good)
Sunsets of the West by Johnston, Tony (Fine)
Covered wagons, bumpy trails by Kay, Verla. (Good)
The log cabin church by Howard, Ellen (Fine)
New Hope by Sorensen, Henri (Fine)
Roughing it on the Oregon Trail by Stanley, Diane (Good but long)
Wagons west! by Gerrard, Roy (Fine)
When pioneer wagons rumbled west by Graham, Christine (Fine)

Shannon said...

3rd grade level:

- Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Chapter book)
- On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Chapter book)
- When Pioneer Wagons Rumbled West by Christine Graham
- Journey of a Pioneer by Patricia Murphy
- Marcus and Narcissa Whitman by Marian Place (Chapter book)
- The Tragic Tale of Narcissa Whitman and a Faithful History of the Oregon Trail by Cheryl Harness
- Pioneer Cat by William Hooks
- The Way West: Journal of a Pioneer Woman by Amelia Stewart Knight
- You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Pioneer!: A Wilderness You'd Rather Not Tame by Jacqueline Morley
- Wagon Train by Sydelle Kramer
- Traveling the Oregon Trail by Julie Fanselow

I posted more of our favorite books at http://www.squidoo.com/oregon-trail-lesson-plan