Prairie Primer/Little House in the Big Woods - Week 1

Here are a few things we've been studying this week with our Prairie Primer Curriculum...

Pa whittles wood in the Little House in the Big Woods so we watched a video of a man whittling wood and heard about the tools he uses for his craft...

The Ingalls family had a brindle bulldog. So we studied bulldogs...

http://www.loveyourdog.com/bulldog.html

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/dog/Bulldog.shtml

http://www.cartooncritters.com/drawbulldog.htm

http://www.akc.org/breeds/bulldog/index.cfm

This is a video of a bulldog giving birth...

Ma churned her own butter. Here is a video of someone making butter...

Pa had several run-ins with bears so we studied bears & hibernation:

http://www.saskschools.ca/%7Egregory/winter/win2.html

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/Hibernate.shtml

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/painting/Hibernate.shtml

http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bear/

http://atozkidsestore.com/hibernation.html

http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/hibernation.html

The Ingall's lived off the land and grew their own crops so we learned about nutrition and eating healthy. We've been reading Food and You - an American Girl book about making wise food choices. Great book with lots of colorful photos!

The Ingalls girls loved to make dolls from corn husks. Here's directions for making your own...

http://www.ehow.com/how_2057762_make-corn-cob-doll.html

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-make-thanskgiving-corn-husk-dolls-258084/view/

http://www.michigan.gov/mikids/0,1607,7-163-15941_20571---,00.html

Ma had to preserve much of their food to last them through the cold winters when they couldn't go looking for food. Here are a few sites on food preservation...

http://www.preservefood.com/

http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/fo/Food_preservation

http://www.lucygardens.com/storing-fruit-and-vegetables-preserving-fruit-and-vegetables.html

http://www.kids-cooking-activities.com/kids-cooking-lessons-senior8.html