Part One -Read Island of Wild Horses to learn about
the real wild horses of Virginia. Vocabulary: Chapter 1 - furiously,
galleon. Chapter 2 - ancestors, plunged.
Part Two
Chapter 3 - Find out why the horses need to stay together in bands
and how the bands cooperate together. Vocabulary: squinted, meekly.
Chapter 4 - Paul and Maureen ask their Grandpa questions about
the wild horses. Let your children discover the interesting stories
their grandparents know by interviewing them. Vocabulary: furiously,
apparatus.
Chapter 5 - Paul and Maureen make money to buy Phantom. Plan
your own fundraiser for a goal you have. Vocabulary: pried, battered.
Chapter 6 - Draw a picture of how Phantom and her foal looked
coming out of the mist. Vocabulary: veiled, brackish, resolution.
Chapter 7 - Learn the anatomy of a horse. Vocabulary:
undercurrent, spindling, commotion.
Chapter 8 - Learn about the relationship between a mother horse
and her foal. Vocabulary: fugitive, triumph, hysterically.
Chapter 9 - Learn how to break a horse. Vocabulary: dejectedly,
brawny, soberly.
Chapter 10 - Find out how a mother weans her foal. Vocabulary:
wonderment, scarcely.
Chapter 11 - Find out what horses like to eat. Vocabulary:
throngs, brandishing.
Chapter 12 - Write about a time you really had your heart set
on getting something. Vocabulary: hysterically, obstacle.
Chapter 13 - Learn about rodeos. Vocabulary: mockery,
auxiliary.
Chapter 14 - Learn about horse equipment. Vocabulary:
splayed, girth.
Chapter 15 - Find out about horse racing. Vocabulary:
gleefully, for granted.
Chapter 16 - Find out where the tradition of breaking the wishbone
from a turkey comes from. Vocabulary: conditioning, hankering.
Chapter 17 - Pretend you are like Maureen - feeling like both
Paul and Phantom. Write about it. Vocabulary: twilight.
Chapter 18 - Learn about the other sounds horses make. Vocabulary:
accord, sideling.
Color Horse
Sheet.
Do Horse
Word Search.
Watch Misty
DVD.
KidsDomain.com
- Has links to a lot of different horse sites.
Disclaimer: All links
are for informational purposes only - a link to a web site does not imply
agreement with or endorsement of that site. Because of the changing nature
of the internet, always preview a site before viewing it with your children.
