Print and Digital! Such a unique and engaging novel study with an awesome final product! This study breaks the book into 13 sections of 2 chapters each, and each of the sections focuses on a reading strategy or skill. In the first version, student work is recorded on pieces of the covered wagon that will then be cut out and glued together at the end, to form a memorable final product (a covered wagon)! A second version is also included in case you prefer a booklet format (same reading strategy and skill activities but on pages that can be stapled or bound together like a book). Optional chapter summary pages are included that can be completed after each chapter; also included is an answer key for all activities, a page of background information about the author, and a scoring page (for either version). Please take a look at the preview for a closer glimpse! Purchasing this resource will enable you to download the traditional PDF version to be printed as well as have access to a digital version to be used with Google Classroom™ or any LMS (through TpT's digital tool, Easel)! I have already prepared a student digital version of this resource for your convenience (deleted answer keys, added instructions and text boxes for student answers, etc.). But you can also make your own changes (in terms of text boxes, instructions, etc., but note the content of the pages is not editable). For more information about how TpT's digital tool Easel works, please click here! Also check out the preview above for a glimpse of this digital version! The product includes: Directions and Tips (including photos) List of possible vocab words Background information about the author Pages for student completion (covered wagon format) that include: -Cause and Effect -Compare and Contrast -Setting -Make Inferences -Ask Questions -Precise Verbs -Text Evidence -Sequence -Similes -Problem and Solution -Visualize -Make Connections -Character Analysis -Vocabulary -Book Summary -Book Review Pages for student completion (booklet format), including a cover page (same skills as above) Chapter Summary pages Scoring Page Answer Key If you have questions or ideas for how I can improve my products, feel free to email me at [email protected]. If you like this product, please leave positive feedback in order to receive credit toward future purchases! Also, consider following me on TpT! Also check out these other resources: Charlotte's Web Novel Study: A Unique Unit Study in 2 Formats Fiction and Nonfiction Literature Circles for Grades 3-5 Poetry Bundle (Alliteration Pyramid Poem, Monster Simile Poem, Bio Poems, and List Poems) Vocabulary Interactive Notebook Thank you and happy teaching! Erin Guge © Erin Guge – All Rights Reserved • You may not create anything to sell or share based on this product. • This product is for one teacher use only. If others like the product, please send them to my TpT store.
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You can download a FREE set of NINE different lapbooks based on the Little House on the Prairie series!
Daily Prompt: Bedtime Stories. What was your favorite book as a child? Did it influence the person you are now? “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the re…
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.
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 Homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder provides old and new images of all the homes that the "Little House" author lived in as a child and adult.
Westward Ho! All you explorers, have fun coloring and building your own paper covered wagon with this printable project.
It is nearly impossible not to love the Little House on the Prairie books. We are thrilled by Laura's words to our very core. She inspires us to live more simply, love more deeply, and
I can not begin to tell you how much I appreciate the freedom our lifestyle afford us. As homeschooling gains in popularity and unschooling becomes more mainstream - I feel almost giddy at the possibilities of people taking charge of their education and creating exactly what works for their family and their children. What a privilege and opportunity we have! For us, a recent immersion into the Little House on the Prairie series has led to long days in costumes replaying scenes from the book. We have listened to wolves howling, sewn, dipped candles, studied maps, talked about the Native Americans, laughed at Nellie and the big crab and cried when Pa lost the wheat field to the grasshoppers. When we read the series a few years ago, we used the terms "before Laura" and "after Laura" when trying to conceptualize time periods in history. The great thing about interest led learning is that the facilitator's (parent's) job is to prepare the environment and support the explorations. In another system, the children might expect that I work hard to organize the whole day with activities and projects that I lead them through. In interest led learning, we all work on it together. They decide (with my input and assistance) what they want to do to make the experience complete. On this particular morning, I woke up to 3 children dressed in their prairie garb ready for a day of pioneer school. We made biscuits from scratch (a rare treat around here) and ate them with the jam we had made last summer (our pioneer selves that is :). We then took a long walk mimicking Laura and Mary's 2.5 mile walk to school. We stopped at our lake (creek) to poke around and catch some minnows. When we returned home, each kid came to my store to buy their slate and slate pencil. Then we played school. They read to me from McGuffy readers, worked on penmanship, and figured arithmetic on their slates. It was a fun, kid created, parent supported exploration into what it might be like to be a settler. We finished up with reading a few more chapters out loud while snacking on some almonds that Mr. Oleson send over and building with blocks to recreate the house that Pa had built with the high hopes he had for his wheat crops. The beauty of this type of learning is how it organically flows through our life. Later in the day, the kids were back to pursuing other individual interests: reading Harry Potter, playing the drums, grocery shopping with their dad, building and taking apart inventions, writing stories, building a pond habitat in an aquarium and planning a spa night. The Little House thread will weave in and out of our days until they have learned all they need to from it. And then another thread will become more prominent - but they are all always there, making up a rich and strong fabric of wonder and exploration. Do your children get absorbed in stories and time periods? I would love to hear how your family does it.
This summer, my kiddos are going to read, play outside, and then read some more! Because I value having a nice home library of children's books, I am constantly searching for good sales. I'm listing my favorite chapter book finds from Amazon for you today! Happy Shopping! This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for more information. As I’m sure you know, Amazon changes their prices frequently, so make sure you check the total before you purchase. Most of the books in this list qualify for free shipping with Amazon Prime or Amazon Mom. Little House on
It has been a very full and wonderful year learning with the Little House on the Prairie books!
We spent 2 nights camping at Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, SD and put together this Ingalls Homestead Review of the campground and living history farm.
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.
(oops! I didn’t get the post done on Friday, but it’s the thought that counts, right?) Grades 1-4 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder This beloved classic memoir, first …
In June of 2014, I started a project with my then 8 year old daughter Lily. I wanted her to read the Little House on the Prairie series so badly because they were my favorites at that age. But she…
This Learning with Little House gift guide includes books and activities - great for Christmas and birthdays - to go with the Little House series.
It can be a challenge for advanced readers in early elementary grades to find more complex texts that are still age-appropriate. These 20 books are just right.
We are having so much fun homeschooling, no wonder some people think it should be illegal, LOL. In all seriousness, I'm grateful to be able to think outside the box and really learn so many different topics through the Prairie Primer unit study. AND our family is experiencing some extra socialization this year due to our involvement with a Prairie Primer co-op. It is allowing us to be even more creative in how we learn and learn from others as well. The month of October found us studying the book "Little House On the Prairie". We do 4 daily assignments on our own each week and then get together twice a month with 4 other families to do joint activities and listen to each family's presentation. It was my month to be organize our co-op time and I had a blast. As a group we memorized "Psalm 8" and learned two songs together (The Blue Juniata and Old Dan Tucker). We leaned heavily on the Native American theme. I found the most incredible craft book called, "More Than Moccasins". It was perfect a craft-challenged person such as myself. Each craft was easy AND best of all, very educational about Native American life. The first week we got together, the kids made tepees out of card stock, toothpicks and tape. This was so easy! Hailey made her outfit out at home using a brown paper bag, tape and water colors. Each family made tepees and then we arranged them by "Clan", with the opening of the tepees to the east so that the sun would greet the families as the dawn broke. The large one in the center is the council tepee. Loved the designs everyone came up with. We even had a few tiny ones for the dogs to live in. Apparently, the dogs would drag their own tepees behind them when they moved from place to place. That was new to me! Josiah wearing the headdress he made at home and showing off his tepees. He made a coyote at the opening of one of them. The other craft was decorated darts we made out of card stock. They taped paper "feathers" to them and everything. The kids and I made hoops out of red osier dogwood sticks and then hung them at various lengths from a doorway at the church we use for our co-op meetings. The kids tried to throw their darts through the hoops. This was good practice for hunting (Indians would use spears). The Indian children would also see how far they could slide these darts across the ice in the winter. Whoever got the furthest won. Kind of like how we do paper airplane contests today. I asked each child and mom to pick out an Indian name and sign it using the Plains Indian Sign Language Dictionary. It was more fun than charades! Josiah was "Red Eagle". He made his breech cloth out of some old capris I had laying around. Hailey was "Dancing Daughter". Two weeks later we all met again. Since then, my husband and Josiah killed and butchered a rabbit and naturally tanned the rabbit skin Josiah is wearing over his breech cloth. It was the first time they ever attempted to tan anything and I have to admit they did a really good job. Michael is going to try a deerskin tonight and sheep skins later this fall. Each family did a presentation. We did ours on the Minnesota Massacre. I had no idea this had taken place. We researched how and why the Indians went on the warpath in 1862 and what the results were. It was tragic on all accounts (around 800 white settlers and soldiers killed or wounded), leading to the largest mass execution in history (38 Indians were executed). Another family did a presentation about forts and stockades - what their functions were and how they were constructed. We still have many in Oregon as I'm sure other states do. Many times Indians would use edible items to make necklaces like corn and seeds. We used tri-colored penne pasta. We used hemp cord., keeping with the all natural theme. Hint:: If you tape one end of the hemp cord to the table, it is way less frustrating for children, because otherwise they just slide off the other end if they forget and accidentally knock it off the table. It worked great and was really easy. Each child could create whatever pattern they wanted. Josiah's newly tanned rabbit skin is spread out on the table. Our other craft for the second meeting in Oct was paper weaving. This was so fun, easy and great for the little ones as it taught them about how opposites work. The older kids loved it, too. We squared our mats up and taped along the edges. Another craft idea from the "More Than Moccasins" book. We always have a potluck during our second meeting of the month. We try to use recipes from the book we are studying that month and using the "Little House Cookbook". I think this has been my favorite part of the co-op. Clockwise: Bean porridge with bacon, mock salt-rising bread, fried sweet potatoes, rabbit stew and dumplings (yep that is the same rabbit that Josiah was wearing) and mashed sweet potatoes with brown sugar (I used sucanat) and home-churned butter. It was all so delicious! Got a picture of the kids showing off their Indian necklaces and paper woven mats. I love that most of the kids dress up, and even some of the moms (who me, naaahh ;). It makes it really fun. So we've already started "On the Banks of Plum Creek" and continue to have a great time. I'm really enjoying all the bible and character lessons in this book. It is generating some really good discussions around here. God Bless, Jackie
Once upon a time, there was a woman named Miss Sather.She taught in a one room school in North Dakota as a teenager,just like Miss Ingalls does in a later book. But Miss Sather…
Get ready to learn while you're reading one of America's favorite classic books with these Free Little House on the Prairie Unit Study resources!
Pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder is considered an iconic American Legend thanks to her series of “Little House” novels that were published between
See if you can put each of these words from different Little House Christmases in the correct ABC order. Download the free printable here: Little House Books Christmas Alphabet Ordering Worksheet Share your love of Little House
Welcome to Unit 2 of the Prairie Primer and Little House on the Prairie Week 1. :-) This week, we get a glimpse of Laura's life on the prai...
For a frugal Christmas, get the family excited about using Little House on the Prairie as the theme. Here are activities and ideas for a fun-filled special holiday just like Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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photo source - Bernardsville Public Library The children's fiction of Laura Ingalls Wilder has captivated readers for over 75 years now, and Bernardsville Public Library is celebrating the author's charming frontier stories with a special display. Here you'll find a wagonload of books and dvds related to the theme of The Little House on the Prairie. Look for the three-dimensional wagon located adjacent to the entry to the Fiction Wing. Even more items are included than pictured above.
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Once upon a time - about 140 years ago - a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. When she grew up, she told her story, writing herself into the hearts of America for all time. Laura Ingalls Wilder has become a fixture in our history and our heritage. Having been a teacher and a mother, her desire was to teach children about the past so that they would not forget it. Teach your children about America's wonderful pioneering past, with the Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and our accompanying Lapbooks that all include a study guide! Books not included. Lapbooks included in this collection are: *Click on the product names below to download a free sample of each one! Little House in the Big Woods Lapbook Little House on the Prairie Lapbook Little House on the Banks of Plum Creek Lapbook Little House by the Shores of Silver Lake Lapbook ***NOTE: PLEASE BE SURE TO SELECT YOUR PRODUCT (BIG WOODS, ON THE PRAIRIE, PLUM CREEK, SILVER SHORE OR BUNDLE) BEFORE CLICKING "Add To Cart" ! THIES PRODUCTS ARE AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORMAT ONLY! TO PURCHASE THIS PRODUCT IN A PHYSICAL FORMAT (CD or PRINT) PLEASE VISIT ONE OF OUR TRUSTED VENDORS: CHRISTIAN BOOK DISTRIBUTORS RAINBOW RESOURCES MARDEL AMAZON
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Print and cut this free design to create your own little pioneer dress-up doll, inspired by our family's love for Little House on the Prairie. A great craft for fans of all ages!
The Little House books aren't just for children. Here are 11 Lessons from Ma Ingalls that will help you live a more simple life.
I have to admit, I was a little worried about Lydia’s 6th birthday party. Little House on the Prairie parties
Little House on the Prairie Paper dolls/puppets. Original watercolor and pen & Ink illustrations. PDF/Digital download of background prairie painting, characters- Ma, Pa, Laura, Mary, Carrie, and Jack, and various props such as a basket of apples, oil lamp, bucket and more! Plus- A color-in-yourself set of the dolls! Fun to use while reading the stories, take along as distraction at the doctors office or on a long car ride, or just play with at home. We chose to laminate our paper dolls for longer lasting play but you can do whatever fits your family best! This is a digital download, which means you can print the painting at home! But it also means that nothing will be mailed to your physical address. Copyright © Awareness Critters. All rights reserved. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view, without express permission of the artist. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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.
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.
