Friday, April 12, 2013

Little House in the Valley

We've been listening to a LOT of Little House on the Prairie lately, thanks to a recent bunny trail I followed on the web which led me to free* downloads of all the Laura books, read by Cherry Jones.

By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, Bk 5)

We're up to By the Shores of Silver Lake and I am so glad I gave the boys Wild West and Powhatan Indian Toobs (link is to a friend's amazon affiliate link...if you search toobs a bunch will come up) in their Easter baskets because they are getting a lot of use!   We have been studying early American history in school, so these books and related activities are a great accompaniment...as long as I pause every now and then to explain some of the prejudices that I never noticed were there the first time I read the books as a child!

 Maybe it's the stash busting urge I get every spring, maybe it's inspired by this recent artwork by my youngest, but I've been doing a little bit of prairie-inspired work myself. 


 I snapped this picture last week as I was eating my breakfast and my oldest was practicing his cursive handwriting (with a sheet inside a page protector and a dry erase marker instead of slate) and "Laura" playing on itunes  in the background.  I'm about 10 rows further along now.  I hope I have enough motivation and fabric to make a rug large enough for our school room, but we'll see.


 *I really hope I'm not going to get nailed for criminal activity....

2 comments:

Natalia said...

Hi! It's Natalia from Prep Utility Vehicle. Thank you so much for your kind comment over there--it took me a while to reply so I thought I'd come let you know I finally did. :) Now that I've read this, is there any way you could *secretly* give me a link to the Little House downloads? I've tried a few rabbit trails and couldn't find them! THanks so much. Natalia

mira said...

Natalia...left a message for you, hope you find it :)