Little House on the Prairie Inspired Party with ornate flower cookies, bonnets, aprons, crocheted pillows & homemade vintage tea cup candles, & pony rides!

Learning activities and free printables for kids based on the first book in The Little House on the Prairie Series. Activities can also be used to celebrate Pioneer Day.

Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

We were given the opportunity to review Little House on the Prairie Study Guide (Grade 4-6) and The Long Way to a New Land Study Guide (Grades K-3) from Progeny Press. We received digital guides which is great because they are reproducible and can be used with multiple students whether a large family or in a CoOp setting. You can choose to print the whole guide at once, print single lessons or print pages as your student needs them. Progeny Press History Progeny Press is a family-owned and run business since 1992. Michael and Rebecca Gilleland were looking for literature studies that helped teach classic cultural literature from a Christian perspective when they started homeschooling in 1991. They ended up creating their own study guides to fill the gap and it was a hit with local Christian schools. They have grown from 18 study guides available in 1993 to over 110 current study guides covering grades K-12. I personally love their mission statement - "To teach our children to think clearly, to understand literature, and to rely on the scripture for truth and values, and enjoy themselves while they do it". Here are the covers of our digital study guides. These guides teach critical thinking, analysis, literary techniques, and studying the issues and themes in the books from a Biblical perspective. I like that you can choose to use these as a full literature curriculum or you can use these to supplement other programs. The Long Way to a New Land was already one of E's reading books this year so it has been great using this study guide with her as she reads through the book. She actually read through the book very quickly as one of her reading assignments but this guide has helped me have her slow down and really dig into the literature as we press into more than just reading the words. In the lessons within both of our study guides there is a synopsis of the book, background information, author information, pre-reading activities, analysis for each chapter, post-reading activities as well as additional analysis and resources. There is vocabulary included along with the discussion question in the chapter analysis sections. There are also Dig Deeper sections that include Bible verses and help show life application. We circled the pre-reading activities we chose to do. E making some flags from the countries of some of her ancestors. Here are a few finished flags. Here E is showing me the route taken by Carl Erik and his family from Sweden to America. Tracing the route on our globe. E enjoyed the chapter worksheets. Here is an example of how vocabulary is included into the chapter analysis sections. The Dig Deeper sections are a chance to pull out your Bible and see how scripture can be a part of your daily life. All the guides have full answer keys which I really appreciate. There are also Pinterest boards for every guide with hand-on projects ideas for kinesthetic learners and those that want more. We are about to jump into our next guide on Little House on the Prairie and I'm so excited because I absolutely love this book. A cool feature for the guides grade 4 and beyond is that the e-book pdf has fillable fields so students can work directly from a computer. I'm looking forward to D using this feature as she completes this guide. Above you can see what I'm talking about for fillable fields. Students just type the answers directly below the questions, love this feature! I think these guides are a great resource and help provide a rich literature study at an extremely affordable price. I also really love that they have a Christian perspective. I highly recommend them. Be sure to click on the banner below to visit the Homeschool Review Crew blog to read more reviews of Progeny Press and check out some of their other products including the Shadow Spinner Study Guide (Grades 5-8), The Hound of the Baskervilles Study Guide (Grades 9-12) as well as other reviews of Little House on the Prairie Study Guide (Grade 4-6) and The Long Way to a New Land Study Guide (Grades K-3). You can engage with Progeny Press on social media @: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Click below to find our more about The Long Way to a New Land Study Guide including the option to buy it now. You can also find our more about the Little House on the Prairie Study Guide including the option to buy it now.

I grew up loving Little House on the Prairie! We've been reading through this series for our read aloud time everyday this summer. Have you heard of Across the Curriculum with Favorite Authors? We are using the guide for Laura Ingalls Wilder's books. The guide covers all seven books. It has questions to ask your kids at the end of each chapter and easy to involved activities and crafts to do for each book (you don't have to do them all). After we finish the Little House series, I want to get the Dr. Suess guide. They are loving this stuff! Here the girls are in their bonnets. They are pretending to have mustaches like Pa. My great-grandmother made these bonnets in 1961 for a 75th year anniversary celebration in Douglas, Wy. The Wyoming residents of this town all dressed up in 1886 style clothing--bonnets and all. My mom and her sisters wore these fashionable bonnets. The first book, Little House in the Big Woods, suggests that you made rag dolls. The girls picked out some fabric I had on hand (from my quilting days) and we went to work. They both got their first lesson on the sewing machine. Paige was pretty good at it! Sewing the yarn on for hair was not an easy task. I did all of Faith's (the blue dress), but Paige asked if she could do her doll's hair. I really didn't think she could do it, it was hard for me to push the needle through! But she did it, all on her own . . . her doll has a bit of face hair, but she was very proud! I don't think they had Sharpie's back in the olden days, but by the time I was done sewing hair and eyes, I was ready to be done. The girls were excited to draw faces on their dolls. In the book, Little House on the Prairie, they suggest building a log cabin out of pretzel rods. This was so fun! Another day we built a chimney, with river rocks, just as Pa did. There is also some paper furniture inside the house, which the book provides the templates for. The wolves surrounding the cabin was all Faith's idea. At one part in the book an entire pack of wolves surrounds their cabin all night long. We found a picture online and made a bunch of copies and the girls colored and cut them out. So fun! This last picture was a special request from Faith. She is very into "The Blog" thing. She wanted me to put up a picture of Carpet Bear all by himself . . . in the bonnet of course!

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Are you reading Little House on the Prairie? Use this free Little House on the Prairie book study to expand your learning while reading the book!

Grinding Wheat Grind wheat just as Laura & her family did in The Long Winter. Churning Butter Churning butter was something most pioneers had to do. Learn how to make butter yourself! Little House Design Your Own Patchwork Quilt Printable How would you design your very own patchwork quilt? Use this printable to design your pioneer […]

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Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

Make Homemade Butter Little House style! Here is the recipe to make butter yourself, get the kids to help.

Little House on the Prairie is a great topic for a multi-age unit study during the summer as well as any time during the school year.

Is your family a fan of Little House on the Prairie? Download some free Little House on the Prairie coloring pages and printables. You can also discover some fun Little House crafts you might enjoy doing. Little House on the Prairie Little House on the Prairie is an American television series about Laura Ingalls Wilder...

Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

Official website of Little House on the Prairie® which serves as a home for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books and the beloved television show.

The Pioneer Rug is a guest post written by Abbey from The Firefly Hook. You can find her on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. The Pioneer Rug My kids and I recently listened to all the Little House on the Prairie books. I love connecting to that time in history when people lived off the land and depended on each other...

Plan your own Little House on the Prairie road trip to Pepin, Walnut Grove, De Smet and more! Here's a guide to get you started!

Today we're making smoked venison. Just like Laura and her family eat in the Little House books!

Of all the read-alouds I’ve shared with my children, the Little House series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, has, by far, been our very favorite. Reading it with my children has inspired us to try …

Learn about pioneer life with this free printable set. The set includes a pioneer life word search, crossword, vocabulary, and coloring pages.

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Hey everyone! I'm getting ready to wrap up my favorite social studies unit in 4th grade, the Oregon Trail and Oregon history. Last year I wrote a few blog posts about what I did to start the unit , how I used realia , and how we had a few fun days of making butter and playing pioneer games. I'm going to fill in the rest of the gaps right now and give you a basic outline of what I do with my class. The first thing I did was send out a KWL in my Google Classroom for my students to fill out. Then I show them some posters about heading to Oregon, the land of milk and honey. The land where pigs are roasted and running around with forks in them. I tell them this is the propaganda told to pioneers to get them out west. The next day is when I hook them in to my unit by setting up shop and at each table, they work as a "wagon" to choose supplies with a weight and money constraint. I feel that this day sets the whole mood for the unit, so I go all out. There is fiddle music, I wear a bonnet and apron, I've got a table with realia and supplies. They also decide who is on the wagon train council and who is the wagon master. They vote and everything! Our next day, they set up a journal and pick out a pioneer name. I put up a list of pioneer names I found and they put it on the front of their journal. I do a quick slideshow about Independence, Missouri and why people are leaving. I have a map of our journey. We only have social studies four days a week, so a typical week will have us at a landmark 1-2 times, fate day, and then some sort of research or activity. Landmarks include: Ft. Laramie, Chimney Rock, Independence Rock, Ft. Bridger, Ft. Hall, Soda Springs, and the Whitman Mission. There are some others I could definitely include. Right after the landmark slideshow and/or video, they write in their pioneer journals. They write about what they saw, how they felt, and what they did at that landmark. At Independence Rock, they "carved" their names into the rock. At one of the forts, they get new supplies to finish the trail. The second to last day of the unit, they decide whether to go on the Columbia River or go over Barlow Pass. Students research the pros and cons of each decision and decide as a wagon, not as a wagon train, how they will travel. Then it's fate time and they roll a dice to see what happens. The last day, for those that made it, there is a celebration in Oregon City. Activities done: Compare and contrast with pioneer children typical day, pioneer game day, Oregon Trail game day (I found it on a DOS website and also there is a card game!), butter making day, wagon making, pioneer quilt day (they make quilts out of construction paper). We also do this unit during December, so I have them make snowflakes right before winter break and talk about other things pioneer kids did to decorate their homes. I thoroughly enjoy this unit and I think it comes through to my students because they get so excited at social studies time. My vice principal seems to visit me during this time a lot too, so I think he enjoys it as well. Let me know if there is anything else you want to know specifically or more details on a certain part of my unit. I hope this helps those of you teaching or gives you an idea to include in your classroom!

Ever wanted to live like the Little House on the Prairie books today? Curious about what we can learn from the books as adults and how we can apply it?

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Lapbooks are a fantastic way to gather information and piece it together for easy learning! Use these free printables to create a Little House in the Big Woods Lapbook.

Is your family a fan of Little House on the Prairie? Download some free Little House on the Prairie coloring pages and printables. You can also discover some fun Little House crafts you might enjoy doing. Little House on the Prairie Little House on the Prairie is an American television series about Laura Ingalls Wilder...

The kids and I started reading "Little House in the Big Woods" last week for the first time. They're really enjoying heari...

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The kids and I started reading "Little House in the Big Woods" last week for the first time. They're really enjoying heari...