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Pioneer Unit
By Kristen

I remember when I was in elementary school, we would always celebrate Kansas Day. (I'm from Kansas). Some activities related to pioneers are:

1) Have the local quilt guild come in and talk about quilt during that period.
I especially remember crazy quilts because they only had a little bit of this and a little bit of that material. Quilts can also tie quite nicely into math.
2) Talk about school for pioneer students. Play games such as "Red Rover". We also had a "dunce" student (just a doll) that had to sit in the corner with a dunce cap on.
3) We sang traditional songs and talked about

how songs helped time go by much faster on wagon trains.

4) One year we even made dolls out of cornhusks. That was pretty intensive though!

Don't forget about the Oregon Trail game and Little House books!

Hope this helped!