My daughter is obsessed with the Little House books these days. I couldn't be happier. She is dyslexic and finding something for her to read that interets her is not easy! When my son was in 3rd grade he read Little House in the Big Woods and I did "Pioneer School" for him and some of the kids in our homeschool group. We are lucky to have an old school house here in town that is owned by the city. It's in a little Heritage park and we rented it out. My daughter was in 3rd grade this year and read Little House in the Big Woods (as well as every other Little House book she could get her hands on!) so I did Pioneer school again. She LOVED it!! Here are a few pics from the day. I took tons of pictures but I didn't want to post a bunch of pictures of other people's children on my blog so I just have a few of my kids and me.
My kids before school started....
Nathan bought that coon skin cap a few weeks before and was happy to wear it to pioneer school. He was one of my teen helpers that day. He played the part well...him and another friend really got into their roles and were quite entertaining to a field trip that came through while we were there!
Claire reading aloud in front of the class. I still can't believe she volunteered to do that!
I was the Pioneer teacher so I dressed the part. It was really hot!
The kids all had to dress the part too.
I found this when the kids went out for recess. Misspelling or not, I loved that they actually LOVED school that day!
We also hand churned butter and ice cream. Some of the moms sent up homemade bread and jellies so the kids got to try the butter on homemade bread! The ice cream was a big hit too!
If your child is in love with the Little House books too check out this blog: http://melissawiley.com/blog/2008/10/14/the-little-house-books-in-chronological-order/
It lists them all in order. Claire is on the Caroline books right now, but oddly enough the last one is out of print and very hard to find. It's going for $70 on amazon!!! I'll do almost anything to encourage reading, but I'm not paying that!!! We are suppose to be getting it from inter library loan from one of the 537 libraries in the country that have it. We're still waiting for it to come in.
1 comment:
what an awesome experience! I wish we had something like that! I LOVE everything to do with pioneers!!!!
hmmm...you got me thinking, there is a village in the next town that is all historic houses from our county that were relocated to this "village" so that other development could go on in their original location...I wonder if there is a schoolhouse there and if we would be allowed to do something like this!
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