By the Shores of Silver Lake - week 1 & 2

We finished On the Banks of Plum Creek and have moved to By the Shores of Silver Lake as our reading progresses through the Little House Series.  We are using The Prairie Primer as our base and we are loving it! If you haven't seen the blog post about the notebook pages that I created for By the Shores of Silver Creek, check them out. We are through our first two weeks.

The notebook pages seem to be working well. I believe there was just one day where we had too many mini books for the back of the page but the next day, we had more room.

Mary lost her eyesight because of sickness. J is learning about the human eye and I finally caved and ordered a special treat for her (she just doesn't know it yet). She will probably think it is gross but I think it will help her appreciate the eye!

Laura became Mary's eyes and she talked to Mary about everything that was going on. She described a sunset to Mary and J painted one to add to her notebook. She used our paint daubers for a pointillism effect.

I blindfolded J and asked her to walk around the house. Then, I had her put her clothes away without the aid of her eyesight. This task took longer than normal because she had to rely on her sense of touch to sort her clothes. I believe she was glad when she could take off her blindfold!

Pa accidentally shot a swam with an eight foot wingspan. We measured it out just to see how long that really was! Wow, eight feet! They couldn't eat it so they used the feathers for a bed. Hope you have an awesome weekend! See you soon.

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