1st Grade (History)

1ST GRADE

Term 1: Explorers & Pioneers
AMERICAN HISTORY (Twice Weekly)
Exploration of North America Coloring Book
Great Native Americans Coloring Book
Native American Craft
Christopher Columbus Little Book

• SPINE: A First Book in American History (Edward Eggleston) Ch. 1-4
• The Catholic Faith Comes to the Americas (Seton Press) Ch. 1-3
• Leif the Lucky (Ingri and Edgar d'Aulaire)
• Columbus (Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire)
• Pedro’s Journal (Pam Conrad)
• He Went With Christopher Columbus (Louise Andrews Kent)

Native Americans

• The Book of Indians (Holling C. Holling)
• Iktomi and the Berries: A Plains Indian Story (Paul Goble)
• Her Seven Brothers (Paul Goble)
• Gift Horse: A Lakota Story (S.D. Nelson)
• Om-Kas-Toe (Kenneth Thomasma)
• Indian Boyhood (Charles Eastman)

Term 2: Virginia
AMERICAN HISTORY (Twice Weekly)

The Story of the Pilgrims Coloring Book
13 Colonies Song

• SPINE: A First Book in American History (Edward Eggleston) Ch. 5-7
• The Catholic Faith Comes to the Americas (Seton Press) Ch. 4
• A Lion to Guard Us (Clyde Robert Bulla)
• This Dear-Bought Land (Jean Lee Latham)
• Pocahontas (Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire)

Term 3: New England
AMERICAN HISTORY (Twice Weekly)
Life in Colonial America Coloring Book
If I were a Pilgrim

• SPINE: A First Book in American History (Edward Eggleston) Ch. 8-10

Pilgrims

• If You Sailed on the Mayflower (Ann McGovern)
• Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey (Jean Van Leeuwen)
• Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? (Jean Fritz)
• Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims (Clyde Robert Bulla)
• Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving (Joseph Bruchac)
• The Thanksgiving Story (Alice Dalgliesh)
• The Landing of the Pilgrims (James Daugherty)
• Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy (Kate Waters)
• Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl (Kate Waters)
• Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy In Pilgrim Times (Kate Waters)

Maine

• The Courage of Sarah Noble (Alice Dalgliesh)
• Calico Bush (Rachel Field)
• The Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth George Speare)

Connecticut

• The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Elizabeth George Speare)