Little House in the Woods - Week 1

We are currently reading Little House in the Big Woods and working our way through the Prairie Primer. In addition to the Primer, I bought the notebook pages for the first three books so I wouldn't have to create them myself. I love being able to print off pages for J to work on to put in her notebook. It is so easy. I am not sure what I will do when we are done the third book! Our first week of the Prairie went well.

Recently, at a thrift store, I found a beautiful read-aloud version of Little House in the Big Woods. It has all of the same charm of the chapter book but with bigger pictures. J and I read a chapter everyday and then she works on her notebook pages.

Each day starts with a page for her to write what she learned. She always dictates this to me which I, in turn, write it on the white board. She then copies it onto her page.

She looked up a Bible verse on the protection of our Father and added it to her page.

She created this pop-up version of the house in the woods - a free printable I found (link below).

After reading how Pa cleaned his gun, we learned about gun safety. J made a poster for her notebook about what to do if she found a gun.

One highlight of the week, J and Kaleb made butter. She did not believe me that the whipping cream was going to turn into butter but after a long....I do mean a long time, it finally worked its way into butter. Kaleb gave up pretty soon after the shaking started but I made J stick it out:)

Here she is trying her butter - not too bad. In fact, we made so much that she used it on her morning toast all week! Riley liked it too. It was a good week in the prairie. We are definitely enjoying our reading.

Links

Play dough to Plato - has a simple recipe for making butter in a jar.

Practical Pages - has the free printable 3D model of the Little House.

Lapbook Lessons - has a free printable Woods lap book.