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The Oldest Barn in America, a lesson in Order of Events

October 10, 2018 By Ticia 12 Comments

As I went about trying to find good books about New Hampshire for our geography lessons, I found a nice bit of Colonial American history and an amazing family story. This lesson also made for a great opportunity to work on order of events in a story as we read the almost 400-year history of the oldest barn in America.

order of events lesson from Tuttles Red Barn

Our source material: Tuttle’s Red Barn

sentence strips, is a true story about a family barn that has been in the family for over 400 years.  It follows the family from when the first one came over all the way up to when the book was published in 2003 (give or take on that last year).  That makes this barn the oldest barn in America, pretty impressive, huh?

I love the story and was talking with the other Mom about how cool it would be to visit there someday.  She went home and looked up this family on the internet and we were both so sad to learn that it’s currently for sale because the next generation isn’t interested in taking up the family farm.  Isn’t that sad?

Future Ticia Update: It did sell successfully in 2013.

Putting together an Order of Events lesson

work on order of events activity

My order of events lesson can easily be adapted to any picture book. Here’s how you can do that.

  1. Pick a picture book with obvious events over time
  2. Copy the pictures from the book (if doing this lesson with older kids write sentences)
  3. Cut them out and let the kids put the events in order

When I taught, this was a frequent activity to do with my students in first and second grade. I would scan the pictures and write the events on sentence strips. Then the students would match the picture to the sentence and they would put it all in a pocket chart.

Our lesson was a bit simpler. I took those same sentence strips I mentioned earlier and we glued the pictures on the sentence strips on in the order of events in the book.

Tuttles Red Barn lesson
It was a real struggle on some of the pictures to figure out where it went in the timeline.  Some pictures were easy to figure out, if it had a car it was more recent, but there were many times it could have been in different places.  We found ourselves double checking the book very often.

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This was part of our New Hampshire lessons, which use the super awesome United States Geography pages, which you can get a coupon for when you sign up for my newsletter.

 

More great ideas for young kids

Colonial America lesson plans
age of exploration pretend play for early elementary
Age of Exploration pretend play
Fountain of Youth history lesson for early elementary

Originally published September 20, 2011

Filed Under: geography, history Tagged With: colonial America, New Hampshire, primary, United States history

Comments

  1. Debbie says

    September 20, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    That is sad. I've watched so much of my families homesteads go the same way due to lack of interest of the younger generation to farm.

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  2. MaryAnne says

    September 20, 2011 at 2:19 pm

    That is very sad. Coming from a farm family that left farming, though, I understand why the younger generation isn't interested. Maintaining farm is a LOT of work – and risk, since the weather basically runs the farm and you can't control or really predict the weather!

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  3. Christy says

    September 20, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    That is sad.

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  4. Nicole says

    September 20, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    Get that linked up to Study America Saturday! I am TOTALLY doing that book and activity when we study New Hampshire!

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  5. An Almost Unschooling Mom says

    September 20, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    How neat to have it stay in a family for that long.

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  6. Raising a Happy Child says

    September 20, 2011 at 11:06 pm

    Very interesting. Too bad that new generation is walking away from so many years of history.

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  7. Phyllis says

    September 22, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    I am going to have to look for that book!

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  8. Liberty says

    September 23, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    Thanks for sharing! I am very interested in this book as we are enjoying several farms this time of year and working on the concepts of timelines in prep of a large dinosaur unit/timeline we are soon working on.

    I am new to your blog! Looking forward to reading often!

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  9. JDaniel4's Mom says

    September 23, 2011 at 3:58 pm

    I love your timeline. What a great way to revew the events of the story.

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  10. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    October 10, 2018 at 12:11 pm

    This is a cool activity! They look so young!!

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    • Ticia says

      October 11, 2018 at 8:12 am

      I know! It’s amazing how little they were. When I was updating this, I found a bunch of videos from this time and they were so little.

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