Paul revere activities

Paul Revere's Ride ~ memory work made easy @mercyisnew.com

If you’ve stumbled here from Pinterest, or some other site … welcome! While each of these books/lessons can stand alone, they are also a part of a year-long series that we have taught at our homeschool co-op. Each lesson builds in part on the one …

Hang your lanterns in the belfry at Old North Church, and signal the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere with a printable lantern template.

Did you know that Paul Revere was actually a silversmith? Read a bit more about this famous figure of the American Revolution!

If you teach Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's, “Paul Revere's Ride,” check out this YouTube video! Use it to differentiate instruction! It’s great for audio/visual support while reading the poem. The video is a dramatic reading of “Paul Revere's Ride” with subtitles and sound effects. Click to use it now or save it for later!

Creating puppets is a great activity for multiple ages. Even the big kids got into these! I used what we had on hand--I had brown or white paper bags to choose from, construction paper that we cut to look like coats, cotton balls (though one of my daughters wanted to make regular hair), feathers, google eyes and markers. For the hat, I made a simple pattern and then cut it out multiple times. While the kids created, we listened to a SOTW audio lesson. I also read a short book about Paul…

I cannot imagine what it must be like for immigrants to see the Statue of Liberty on their journey toward U.S. citizenship. To help my son understand all that Lady Liberty symbolizes, we read a few great books. The first story, a fiction book by Eve Bunting, did an amazing job of talking about the symbolism of this great landmark. (It was hard for me to get through the book without choking up.) A family takes an annual ferry ride to Liberty Island at the request of the grandmother to…

The Paul Revere Unit Study provides a dramatic flare for your lessons on his famous midnight ride. These lesson plans include a historical map of Revere's route as well as Dawe's and the British; in both color and grayscale. An accurate timeline fills in the gap. Longfellow's poem is accompanied by The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Comic Book which corresponds to the sections of the poem. Hands-on activities, fun facts, games, recommended book lists, and more will complete your unit study for…

BIBLE: Our Sonlight and FIAR units have been focused on early American history. As a result, we’ve continued to memorize our poetry selections as well as the FIAR Bible verses. Bible Verse: I creat…

We have been studying life in Colonial Times. There are so many wonderful hands-on activities for kids to participate in for this time period. We just finished learning about Colonial Silversmiths. We read The Silversmiths (Colonial Craftsmen) by Leonard Fisher from a great series of books from the library about Colonial Craftsmen. We learned that there weren't banks in colonial times but that the local silversmith acted like a bank. People realized that their silver coins were hard to…