Hello friends!
We are getting closer to the wedding date and it seems like we’ve had one thing after another.
First, it was the freezer after the hurricane… but then it started working a little better until it didn’t. It started making a noise last week and then it began thawing very quickly. We had water everywhere!
Continue reading “It couldn’t wait…”
What do eggs, milk, and coffee have in common? Well, they can all be used for a variety of things and we often have them on our grocery list but right now they are also on my morning chores list. (Hopefully, 2 of the 3 will soon be off the grocery list.)
Continue reading “Eggs, Milk, and Coffee (Update pics!)”
I haven’t been talking a lot about our Norwex lately but I can tell you that we are even more in love with these products than we were when we first got them.
We’ve been using the cloths and water to clean the majority of our house and we are loving how easy it is not too mention all the money we’re saving because we aren’t buying so many cleaners. After watching some live demos I’m even more confident in Norwex’s ability to remove viruses and bacteria from the surfaces. Continue reading “Black Friday Sale Starts Today!”
These lessons were made to go along with ‘By the Shores of Silver Lake‘ written by Laura Ingalls Wilder. We are planning to go through the whole series and I am keeping track of the different topics we are learning about here on my blog. We hope you enjoy these as much as we have!
This page contains our lesson plans for a few different areas that I have included with our ‘Life Skills’. You will find lessons on cooking, cleaning, and organization as well as Bible memory work, manners, and character training. All of these will go together to help raise our children into the responsible and caring citizens of tomorrow.
We will be discussing some of the character qualities that are displayed in the book but if you would like to do a separate character study lesson you can download one HERE. Continue reading “By the Shores of Silver Lake: Life Skills Lessons”
We start every morning off with our prayers and the Pledge of Allegiance. Below is a picture of the prayers that we say and a video of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Not the prettiest example but that’s what we’ve been using for the past few years.
Don’t have a flag? Grab one HEREand print it out to put up somewhere… you could even let the kids make a flag to proudly display. Amazon also has some little ones like this one HERE and HERE.
After this we have our calendar time also where we go over such things as the Days of the Week, the months, and some basic math.
This one came from Lakeshore Learning.
The younger kids will also be watching some of these videos while I work with the older ones:
We may also use some of the songs found HERE.
And we will be trying out some relaxing background music with Google.
We also like to use this song during our ‘Morning Time’ to help the kids learn the 50 States.
Tip: If you want to go to a certain week/chapter or topic simply push the ‘ctrl’ and the ‘F’ button down together and a small bar will pop up. Type in the week number or chapter number you want and it will take you to it.
On weeks where there are several activities listed just choose a couple that interest you the most to work on.
Answer can be found HERE.
Answer Key Password: momsrock
(The Fish-Trap, School, Nellie Olsen, Town Party, and Country Party)
Here is our lesson plan for the week:
Read Chapters 19, 20, 21, 22 & 23
Chapter Nineteen (The Fish-Trap):
Chapter Twenty (School):
Chapter Twenty-One (Nellie Olsen):
Chapter Nineteen (Town Party):
Chapter Nineteen (Country Party):
Additional Reading:
Older Children:
Each child would complete a reading lesson from our McGuffey Primer Books or other reading materials that we chose for the day.
Younger Children:
Younger kids will also be doing one lesson a day from Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
We are also working through All About Reading Level Pre-reading with William as he needed something a little different from what we had been doing.
Print: On the Banks of Plum Creek Vocabulary Week Four List
Older Kids:
Parents click HERE for the answer key.**see instructions at the top of the page.
Younger Kids:
Older Kids:
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Younger Kids:
We will be using the Writing Activity Station Kit from Lakeshore Learning for some of our lessons.
Choose one prompt below:
Watch this video about similes:
*Remember to use the thesaurus to come up with different words.
Group:
Older kids:
Younger kids:
You may find it easier to buy a Math Workbook to work through as you go along with the study.
** For fun you may try ‘ciphering’ on a slate with a slate pencil.
Rotate through these activities:
Memorize the Continents and Oceans using the videos below to help:
Maps:
Landforms:
We will also be using this People Long Ago Resource Box from Lakeshore Learning to go with our lessons.
There are also some other resources available here:
We will be memorizing Psalm 51 during this unit study. Print it HERE.
– Read pages 43 through 55 of Emily Post’s Table Manners for Kids and discuss the manners used in each situation below:
Practice these until you finish this unit study and then we will move on to new skills.
Learn and practice some traditional skills from the book.
We are using Lucky Dog Lessons: Train Your Dog in 7 Days as a guide for training our puppy.
Note:
We will also be using:
Sing Uncle John to the tune of Yankee Doodle:
You can check out my Pinterest page Little House on the Prairie Crafts for even more crafts and activities.
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