Pioneer Days

Whew...These past two days were a whirlwind of excitement and now exhaustion!  And this is a warning....this post is full of pictures!

As mentioned in previous posts that we've been reading about pioneer life while reading aloud Little House in the Big Woods.  We're soon going to be taking a break from the book and looking at the Nutcracker.  So what better time to celebrate what we know about pioneer life and spend some time actually doing things like pioneers might have?

We experienced many things:

• making bread and butter
• learning how to weave and make a basket
• saw a duck and a chicken, talked about raising farm animals
• learned games like hopscotch, Cat's Cradle, and leapfrog
• made rag dolls

I hope that these activities truly impacted your child and made a lasting impression, driving home the similarities and differences of the times back then. I hope too that these past 2 days your child learned a new skill or found they enjoy something new.

We also had our first FAMILY LUNCH TIME on Tuesday. It was great to have more of our classroom family with us for lunch.  I will let you know if and when we will have another one.  If you have any suggestions or comments please let me know.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving break...hopefully you get to spend some special time with your family.

Learning to play Leapfrog!

Making a RagDoll

Working on their RagDolls

The Cramer family in a duck and chicken...we got to crack open the eggs to compare them!

Chip the duck got to visit our classroom

Checking out the different eggs

Mrs. Cramer and Nibbles the duck (he's the nice one)

We learned some square dancing moves

 

Miss Alison helping with the yarn for our baskets

Just getting started on her woven basket.

The basket weaving was HARD work!

We finished 2 of the 3 parts to the Little House in the Big Woods mini-series

Our Pioneer Journals

Family Lunch Time

We are really hoping to have a classroom packed full of special family for our first 

Family Lunch Time next week!  

On Tuesday we are welcoming into our classroom our parents to have lunch with us.   Although this is the day before our Thanksgiving break, we're not doing the typical Thanksgiving dinner.  This is a normal lunch time, just in the classroom, with our all of our classmates.  You'll bring in your own lunch and then join us in back in the classroom.   No school work.  No fun activities. No pressure!!

This will be a great time to spend 30 minutes with your child, in our classroom, with our school family.  

I am soooo excited and am hoping for a great turnout!
If you aren't able to make it, another special adult can come in your place. We all hope to see you there!