Off to a great start!

We are off to a great start this year. As I mentioned we are using the Prairie Primer this year as our history, geography, and science. I love the way you can incorporate many different ages as well as learning styles.

The first book we are reading is "Little House in the Big Woods". The first few chapters had some details in it that the girls did not really care for, butchering a pig. Andrew on the other hand loved every minute of it....and he was worried there would nothing in it that was interesting. In the first few chapters it talked about bears and owls. So we read a couple of books about them. The books we have read so far are:

"Baby Bears and How they grow" by Jane Heath Buxton
"The way of the Grizzly" by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
"Owls:Flat Faced Flyers" by Adele D. Richardson
"Barn Owls" by Patrica Whitehouse

For our science activity yesterday we made home made butter. This was somthing the children loved doing!! We bought heavy cream, put it into a mason jar, placed the top on it and shook it for a long time. The children got a taste of how hard it really was to produce the food that we take for granted now a days.I placed a plastic baggie over the top of the jar just incase. Have the children shake the jar until a solid lump starts to form. This takes a long time.
Then pour the butter into a strainer, be sure to save the buttermilk to use in baking. We saved it and made biscuits last night. The kids really enjoyed making this. It tasted so good!!