Colonial America

Sail to Jamestown and Plymouth, tour the thirteen colonies, shake real butter and host a Colonial Day for the family.

Your week

• Day 1: Jamestown (1607) · Make: Build a triangle-shaped James Fort
• Day 2: The Mayflower and Plymouth · Make: Mayflower cargo boat (how many pennies before it sinks?)
• Day 3: The thirteen colonies · Make: Colony regions poster
• Day 4: Chores and trades · Make: Shake homemade butter
• Day 5: School, play and Colonial Day · Make: Hornbook, cup-and-ball toy and a family Colonial Day

Choose your edition

• K–2 Edition ($9.99): the full week with tracing, yes/no, picture-sorting and step-order worksheets for kindergarten through 2nd grade
• 3–5 Edition ($9.99): the full week with reading passages, a Jamestown fact-or-legend sort, an early colonies timeline, colony vocabulary and a butter-making report for 3rd through 5th grade
• Family Edition ($14.99): both worksheet levels, for siblings across K–5

What's inside

• Word-for-word parent guide for every day (SAY, ASK and DO cues), with honest, age-appropriate notes on the Powhatan and Wampanoag peoples and on slavery in the colonies
• Full-color picture pages, including Mayflower II, a 1775 colonies map and a real 1700s hornbook
• Leveled worksheets with answer keys
• 20 printable flashcards and three review games
• Word search, five coloring pages and a mini-reader
• Field trip ideas, a field trip journal, certificate and book list
• Quality checked: every page reviewed in a detailed accuracy audit

Supplies: about 80 craft sticks, play dough, a ruler, aluminum foil, about 100 pennies, poster board, a jar with a lid, pasteurized heavy cream, cardboard, plastic wrap, a paper cup and string.

Printable PDF. One purchase covers every child in your family.