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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. …
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A Closer Look at Sheep
After reading about Almanzo’s day sheep shearing in “Farmer Boy” by Laura Ingalls Wilder ( “The Playful Pioneers” curriculum), we were inspired. We used “Farm Anatomy” by Julia Rothman to learn all about the different parts of a sheep and the various ways in which they are sheared. The girls had a mini-hands-on experience with this with the help of our Playmobil sheep set and a little bit of cotton wool. I simply wrapped the sheep with the wool and they pretended to “shear” it off…we then washed the “wool” and…
