Pioneer life

A big part of pioneer life was the food. Where would it come from, would we go hungry, is there enough ect. Grains played a big part in the diet of pioneer families. To go along with our Little House on the Prairie study we bought a Grains unit study from Marmee Dear Co. The study covers a bunch of different grains, rice, wheat, Kamut, rye, triticale, spelt, barley, oats, buckwheat, flax, corn, amaranth, quinoa, millet and teff. Some of these I have never heard of let along tried. But I did notice that our local Mennonite store has most if not all of these. We have tried rye, wheat, spelt, barley, oats and flax. I must admit I feel much better after introducing these into many of my baked items.

After a short lesson on the grain of the day we went to the Bible to see how many verses on bread, baking and food we could find. Below is a list of what we found: I have used many versions to find these.

Bread:

Gen. 14:18
Gen. 47:12-13
1 Sam. 16:20
1 Sam. 21:6
1 Sam. 25:18
1 Kings 17:6
2 Kings 4:42
Nehemiah 10:37
Psalm 80:5
Psalm 102:9
Psalm 104:15
Hosea 7:8
Matthew 6:11
Matthew 26:26
Mark 14:22
1 Cor. 11:23-26
Luke 6:4

Baking:

Gen. 18:6
Gen. 40:1
Jer. 37:21
Hosea 7:4
Exodus 16:23
Lev. 2:4
Lev. 26:26
1 Kings 19:6
Matthew 13:33

Food: just a few because there are A LOT of verses in the Bible on food.

Gen. 1:11-12
Gen. 9:3
Judges 7:13-15
Psalm 78:25
Lamentations 5:9

I really enjoy turning all of our studies to Christ. Isn't that one main reason we are home schooling our children? Point them to Christ. We bought the book:" Where to Find it in the Bible: the ultimate A-Z resource" by Ken Anderson. I must tell you I am so glad we bought this book. No matter what the subject we are studying I can open this and it will point me to a scripture passage to use. Many times it is more than one. We bought this book at Dollar General for $5.00!

Sorry I've been away....

I've neglected this blog for a bit. I'm sorry about that. It has been a very crazy few weeks. We were away for a weekend, had a sewer problem here at the house, my Husband was up for a promotion at work and did not get the position, 15 year old is rebelling against everything (I think if I said the sky is blue she would say NO....its red LOL!), I was on my way to my scrapbooking club and the tire blew on the car...uggggh! Then we found out we needed new brakes on the back of the car....not cheep. Honestly I had in the past few weeks lost the desire to homeschool. I battled with such guilt over this. That is when I just put all the workbooks away and we have done some fun stuff centered around autumn. I have really enjoyed it. I have worked in math, language arts and writing in these. It has been great because the kids do not even know they are doing these "boring" subjects. Why is it we sometimes feel the need to "conform" our children to the school's way of teaching???



So anyway, I'm hoping to get everything caught up tomorrow....I'll be all alone in the house in the morning....but I'm not promising anything. :-)



I'll leave you with this wonderful unit study from The Old School House magazine. You will find it on the side bar. I'm so excited to do this study. We have just finished the book Little House in the Big Woods and the final chapters are all about the harvest.