Golden Nuggets

We finished our first month and our first unit in our school year this week, so that meant it was time to celebrate. We are using The Prairie Primer for our unit study and thoroughly enjoying it. It's based on The Little House On The Prairie books and the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Of course, we still supplement some of our core subjects like math and spelling, but otherwise we are able to seamlessly integrate all our subjects into our daily lessons.

Since we learned a little about the gold rush, I thought it might be fun to "mine for gold" as we celebrated finishing our first unit. Each of the girls had their own claim in which they could mine for gold. Scattered in their claims were lots of golden treats (ie fool's gold) along with gold cards that represented pure gold. On the cards were things to review from what we'd learned over the past month. Spelling words, math problems, and Bible verses. The girls had to answer each card correctly in order to collect all their treats. They had a great time mining their claims and realizing just how much they'd learned. Oh yeah, since we are spending the year studying pioneer living, I made each of them their own pioneer outfit. They get to wear their outfits whenever we have fun activities like today :)