Little House in the Big Woods Art & Baking Novel Study Guide
Additional Learning Resources
Chapter 10: Summertime
Week 10: Summertime and Honey Bee's
Read:
Chapter 10: Summertime
Summertime in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord
Another Way to Climb a Tree by Liz Garton Scanlon
Be a Tree! by Maria Gianferrari
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
A Wasp Builds a Nest by Kate Scarborough
The Bee Book by Charlotte Milner
The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall
Bee: A Peek-Through Picture Book by Britta Teckentrup
Watch our special playlist on YouTube with educational video’s paired up with chapter 5:
Here is a very interesting podcast about cooking in the 1800’s being not fast food:
https://www.ncpedia.org/culture/food/cooking-in-the-1800s#audio
They would plan their day around their meals, now we plan our meals around our day.
Pair with our Butterflies in the Garden Art & Baking Unit Study, Busy as a Bee Learning Pack and our Adventures in Wisconsin.
Art Project: Flower Press DIY
Art Supply List: Flowers, leaves, a heavy book, cardboard, shipping box or other corrugated cardboard, paper, elastic bands.
Cook: Old-Fashioned Shrewsberry Cookies
Kitchen Supply List: sugar, flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, eggs, butter.
Watch a reenactment of what it would have been like to bake these cookies, along with other meals in the 1800’s:
Game: Animal Matching, Snap, Guess Who
Seasonal prompts for this lesson:
What are things you do only in certain seasons?
What seasonal activities would you like to do with your family?
What do you like to do outside?
What are your favorite memories of Summer's passed?
What Summer activities do you like to do with your family?