Materials: Pen or pencil, buttons, yarn, glue, any other materials that can be used to make puppets
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1. Write a paragraph telling how an ancestor made a difference in your life today. |
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2. Launch this history of fashions to see what clothes you might make for your puppet. |
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3. Make and decorate a sock puppet using buttons, yarn, glue, or other materials. |
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4. Use your ancestor puppet to read your paragraph to the class. |
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5. View some of America's favorite puppets. |
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Family TraditionsClick on the letter that your last name starts with, and see if your family name is listed in this gallery of photographs. Click on the name and check out photos of people you might be related to. A Family's PastRead these stories written by 6th graders in the Netherlands about their grandparents. The flags next to the titles show all of the different countries that the grandparents have come from. America's Families Long, Long AgoMany different Indian groups lived in North America. Each had different customs and cultures. Families on the MoveRead this story about Cambodian immigrants in California. America GrowsThis timeline shows patterns of immigration to America. |
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