 If you have been following us on social media, you have seen that Emily has become obsessed with Betsy Ross for the past few weeks. So when we sat down to talk about what our July morning basket would be, it made absolutely perfect sense that Betsy Ross would be included in it. And since it is July and the month that we celebrate our country's independence, we decided that we would have no other than an American Revolution morning basket for the month of July. For re-allowed, we will be reading through the Revolutionary War on Wednesday from the Magic Treehouse series along with the American Revolution Research Guide or Fact Tracker. We will also be doing Unit 22 from Passport to Adventures to go along with these. We're going to be reading Blast to the Past, Ben Franklin's Fame and Who Was Ben Franklin and doing the Who Was Unit to go with it. We will also be reading Blast to the Past Washington's War along with Who Was George Washington and doing the Who Was Unit to go with it. We will be reading Blast to the Past Betsy Ross's Star along with Who Was Betsy Ross and doing a Who Was Unit for it. We will also be reading Who Was Paul Revere along with his Unit Study. And we will be reading the Revolutionary War, an interactive history adventure, and it has three story paths, 65 choices, and 16 endings. These books are so much fun. You read a section, you select which one you're going to do, you turn to that page, and then you see how far you can get through the American Revolution. Certain choices will kill you all faster, certain will help you survive all the way to the end. Either way, it is an exciting and fun way to discover history. We will also be reading through I Survived the American Revolution of 1776 as well as Black Heroes of the American Revolution. For picture books, we have Sam the Minuteman, George the Drummer Boy, Betsy Ross and the Silver Thimble, Ben Franklin and his kite, Secrets of the American Revolution, The Founding Fathers were spies. If you were a kid during the American Revolution, if you lived at the time of the American Revolution, a patriotic alphabet book, A is for America, Paul Revere's Ride, The Fourth of July Story, Phyllis Sings Out Freedom, the story of George Washington and Phyllis Wheatley, John, Paul, George and Ben, George vs. George, the American Revolution, as seen from both sides, Boston Tea Party, a more perfect union, the story of our Constitution, we the kids, the preamble to the Constitution of the United States, a spy called James, the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent and the American story will just be reading through the Revolutionary time period stories. For hands on activities, we have some replicas of historic documents such as the Declaration of Independence that we will be exploring and maybe even using as copy work. We also have the Continental Army and the British Army Safari LTD tubes. So it has the armament in them. We will just be using them to play out different scenarios as we read. I may even make a sensory bin with these. I'm not 100% sure yet. We have the famous figures of the American Revolution. These are really fun. They are movable paper dolls. You cut them out and poke little holes for the brads. And then you have movable paper dolls. These are all famous figures from the American Revolution. And we have the history pockets, the American Revolution. I am super excited for this and I will show you our finished one. For games, we have Spotted America. Now this isn't technically American Revolution, but you guys know we love Spotted and it is America, so we are going to go ahead and include it in this basket anyway. We do have the Professor Noggin American Revolution. And so we will be using these every day for some extra trivia on the time period and the subject that we're learning about. And then we have the game Way Back When In History, Making of America. Now the way this game normally plays is you go through the different time periods like Explorers, American Colonies, American Revolution, Constitution, and Civil War. However, just because we're focusing mainly on the American Revolution this month, we're going to go through all of the board game like we normally would. And instead of asking questions based off of where we're at, we'll only be asking the American Revolution questions. So we'll be starting and finishing the game. Rolling the dice and moving along the same. But we will ask questions based off of just the American Revolution. Now, this is not technically in our morning basket. I mean, it is in it only because Emily wanted to make sure we did not forget it. Every single July we watched the Liberty Kids. We love it. There's 40 episodes that take you from the Boston Tea Party all the way through the American Revolution. It's just a really great way to bring history to life. So we are putting it in our morning basket to make sure it doesn't get forgotten. The way our schedule is kind of flowing right now as we're doing morning basket and doing some time outside for a few hours coming back inside and doing lunch and then moving on to table time. So we will probably be watching these episodes with our lunch every day. If you have not watched these, you can buy the DVD on Amazon. I do believe there's also episodes on YouTube as well. That is a great thing for kids to learn about the American Revolution. This month's giveaway is going to be for the Who Was Ben Franklin Unit Study, Who Was Paul Revere Unit Study, Who Was Betsy Ross Unit Study and the Who Was George Washington Unit Study. To enter to win, all you have to do is like this video and leave a comment down below. The giveaway will stay open the entire month until the August morning basket is announced and then I will contact the winner and send you all four Who Was Unit Studies to enjoy.