Lesson Plan

Pilgrims & Mayflower Lesson Plan: Littles Edition

Ride the Mayflower, meet the Wampanoag, and learn the true harvest story.

This is the Littles Edition of Pilgrims & Mayflower: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades K-3. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: What was it like to sail on the Mayflower to a land that was already home to the Wampanoag?

The Week

• Mon: All Aboard the Mayflower (Reading) • Tue: A Postcard From the Sea (Writing & Words) • Wed: Load the Boat (Science & Math) • Thu: The People Already Here (Hands-on Project) • Fri: The Harvest Gathering (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Pilgrims & Mayflower has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade K-3 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Littles (grades K-3), about 30 to 45 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Load the Boat
• Sequence cards (The Mayflower Story) and a cut-and-sort page (Ship or Village?)
• Writing page: A Postcard From the Mayflower
• Hands-on project: Mini Wetu
• Word search, maze, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 4 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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