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A Closer Look at Pumpkins
We have been following “The Playful Pioneers” curriculum this year and today’s activity included making pumpkin pie. In true homeschool-style…we turned the activity into a full-blown pumpkin study…we chopped, dissected and wrestled with this orange beauty all afternoon. Be sure to take a look at the books and crafts used for this unit study at the end of this post. We used Julia Rothman’s books for reference on how pumpkins grow and the different types of gourds. We followed the directions by “Delightful Adventures” found…
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A Closer Look at Bread
Our activity today with “The Playful Pioneers” by The Peaceful Press was to make French bread. It is painful to admit that we have never done this together before! We followed the beautiful recipe in the cookbook included with “The Playful Pioneers” curriculum. HERE is a similar recipe by Your Homebased Mom if needed. The kneading was a hit with Miss 6…she kept saying “I need to knead!”. The girls loved tucking in the loaves to rise in the sun, they kept peeking at it every few minutes and…
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A Closer Look at Pigs
This week with “The Playful Pioneers” curriculum we studied PIGS…swine, sows and hogs. We first sketched a picture of a pig and labelled all her parts with the help of “Farm Anatomy” by Julia Rothman. Of course, the girls had a good chuckle about the word “rump”. We mixed whip cream and cocoa to make a nice muddy mess for our pigs to play in. The girls would get the pigs completely covered and then run to wash them off and repeat the process over and over. …
