*Originally posted November 12, 2014* This has been my favorite unit....EVER! A couple of years ago I was doing a unit on different genres and read a "Little House" book to the kindergarteners for the historical fiction lesson. The kids really got into it and we ended up talking more about it the next week. I had intended to come back and do a bigger unit at some point and it just never happened. Then I found this Little House Virtual Field Trip pin on Pintrest and couldn't wait to put together a unit! The website has the "field trip" broken down into stops. It includes maps, videos, and links to other information for each stop. It also lists the "Little House" chapter books that were written about each stop. Because I was teaching this unit to 1st graders I also found the "My First Little House" picture books that corresponded to each stop as well. Week 1: Stop 1: Pepin, Wisconsin Chapter Book: Little House in the Big Woods Picture Books:
Week3: Stop 3: Walnut Grove, Minnesota Chapter Book: On the Banks of Plum Creek Stop 4: DeSmet, South Dakota Chapter Books:
*The Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum has a few online exhibits that contain photographs of the family and of their lives. We browsed through this site while making our butter. Ingalls Homestead Step 4: It will separate into butter and buttermilk. I poured the buttermilk into another jar. Week 4:
Stop 5: Malone, New York Chapter Book: Farmer Boy Picture Books:
This week was our final stop on our virtual field trip. 1st Grade and I were both a little sad to see it come to an end. They learned so much and I hope had some fun along the way! Here are some of their thoughts on our time with the Ingalls Family: *They get a bucket of water to wash their clothes. That sounds kinda fun. * I learned that Laura didn't have cars, trucks, and airplanes. They used a wagon with horses to take them places. *They had a school with only one class and we have a lot of classes.*Pa played the fiddle. It looks like a really little guitar with a stick. *They had to make their own toys because they didn't have Walmart. *They had a bonnet to keep shade on their heads. *I didn't know that they didn't have grocery stores. They had to plant their own food. *They had to make their house out of trees. *They had to make their own butter out of milk in a butter churner.
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