Our Year of Prairie Primer Has Come to an End :-(

We just completed our Prairie Primer Curriculum for the year and to celebrate we attended the Prairie Days Annual Festival in Independence, Kansas. This was our 4th year to go and we had so much fun, as usual. The girls made pottery and a beaded craft, participated in a Spelling Bee, shopped in the gift store, checked out the one-room log cabin that Laura lived in, watched  Native American dancers and petted some animals in the petting barn. The following are pictures from years past and also includes pics from when we saw the musical in 2010...

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We have so enjoyed doing the Prairie Primer curriculum this past year and highly recommend it to anyone considering it as part of their homeschooling! We've made some wonderful memories together reading the books and doing the suggested activities. As for our curriculum choice next year, we'll be doing "Portraits of American Girlhood" which is based on the American Girl books. Looks like another blog may be in my near future :-)

Prairie Days Festival '09

We attended the Prairie Days Festival in Independence, Kansas today and had sooo much fun! It is always held the 2nd weekend of June and I think this was our 3rd year to go. The weather was perfect and some of our friends were there which helped make it even more fun!

Our girls loooove Little House on the Prairie and, in fact, we are going to take a break from our regular homeschooling curriculum next school year and are planning on doing Little House on the Prairie curriculum. They are really looking forward to it!

Here's a few pics and videos from our day on the Prairie...