A Little Home digital discipline journey (UPDATED)

A Little Home Digital Subject Journey ~
Written by Jamie C. Martin, editor of Easy Homeschool

As I’ve written earlier than, the Little Home books have influenced my life since I first learn them as somewhat lady. I’ve learn all the collection a number of instances and have all the time had a dream – a dream that this 12 months goes to return true!

I’ve all the time needed to stroll the place Laura walked, see the place she lived, and be impressed as a household alongside the way in which. Properly, this summer season it’s taking place!

In June we’ll be heading west as a household – not in a lined wagon, however a minivan – to the Little Home websites in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota on an enormous street journey.

I’m past thrilled to have the chance to do that as a household, however then I assumed – why not take you guys together with me?

In fact, you gained’t all match within the minivan, however why not put collectively a digital discipline journey so you may take your children to Laura’s houses out of your eating room or espresso desk?

Prepared? Let’s go!

A Little Home digital discipline journey

Cease 1. Pepin, Wisconsin

Books written about this web site: Little Home within the Massive Woods

Head to Little Home within the Massive Woods on Google Earth

Laura was born within the Massive Woods in 1867, and he or she describes this primary childhood residence in Little Home within the Massive Woods. The Ingalls lived right here twice, and the reminiscences Laura shares within the ebook really happen after they returned from the Kansas prairie.

If you happen to take a look at the satellite tv for pc view, you’ll see that only some bushes stay, however there’s a duplicate cabin positioned on the web site and a picnic space to hang around in.

Take a tour of Little Home, Pepin:

(Click on right here for the video if you happen to can’t see it beneath.)

Be taught extra about Pepin:

Cease 2. Independence, Kansas

Books written about this web site: Little Home on the Prairie

Head to Little Home on the Prairie on Google Earth

Laura’s household moved right here in 1869 and settled on land belonging to the Osage Indians, having acquired phrase that the land would quickly be accessible for settlers. After a 12 months of persevering by means of hardships and coping with tensions between the Native People and settlers, the Ingalls have been compelled to depart Kansas.

At the moment a duplicate cabin sits on the location, furnished the way in which Laura described within the ebook. Pa’s hand dug properly stands close by as properly.

Take a tour of the Laura’s little home because it appears to be like immediately:

(Click on right here for the video if you happen to can’t see it beneath.)

Be taught extra concerning the Kansas web site:

Cease 3. Walnut Grove, Minnesota

Books written about this web site: On the Banks of Plum Creek

Head to Walnut Grove on Google Earth (scroll up somewhat to see the unique dugout web site)

After leaving Kansas and spending a couple of years again in Wisconsin, the Ingalls moved to Minnesota in 1874 and lived in a sod home for the winter. Pa ultimately constructed a home on the property (which Laura known as “the fantastic home,” because it was the biggest she had lived in at that time).

Each homes are gone, however Plum Creek–ah, that’s nonetheless there! I’m wanting ahead to taking off my sneakers and wading in it, identical to Laura did.

The location of the dugout has been marked, and Walnut Grove has a museum devoted to Laura and the time interval. The church bell that Pa donated his shoe cash for hangs at a church on the town as properly.

Tour the location of plum creek and Laura’s residence:

(Click on right here for the video if you happen to can’t see it beneath.)

And take a stroll on the banks of plum creek:

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Be taught extra concerning the Minnesota web site:

Cease 4. De Smet, South Dakota

Books written about this web site: By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Lengthy Winter, Little City on the Prairie, These Completely satisfied Golden Years, The First 4 Years

Head to Little Home in De Smet on Google Earth

After struggling disappointments in each Minnesota and Iowa, the place the Ingalls lived for a short while, the household determined to maneuver additional west so Pa may work for the railroad because it expanded by means of South Dakota. This ended up being their closing transfer till Laura, Mary, Carrie, and Grace left residence as adults.

De Smet is the location of the Lengthy Winter, the location of Laura’s courtship with Almanzo Wilder, and the beginning of their married life collectively.

Tour the Little City on the Prairie:

( Click on right here for the video if you happen to can’t see it beneath.)

Cease 5. Malone, New York

Books written about this web site: Farmer Boy

Head to Almanzo’s childhood residence on Google Earth

Almanzo was born on this farm in 1857, and Laura shares his childhood story fantastically in her ebook Farmer Boy. His household lived right here for almost twenty years, till crop failures compelled them to maneuver west to Minnesota.

Almanzo’s authentic residence nonetheless stands, and has been restored as a lot as potential to the time interval through which the ebook was written.

Tour Almanzo’s farm:

(Click on right here for the video if you happen to can’t see it beneath.)

Be taught extra about Almanzo and his residence:

Cease 6. Mansfield, Missouri

Head to Rocky Ridge Farm on Google Earth

All of the Little Home books have been written from this location!

Laura, Almanzo, and Rose moved right here in 1894 on the lookout for a recent begin in farming. They remodeled the rocky land they bought little by little and spent almost 20 years constructing the white farmhouse that’s now a museum honoring the household’s legacy.

Years in the past Steve and I had the possibility to go to Rocky Ridge Farm on a street journey earlier than having youngsters, and I cherished seeing Pa’s fiddle and Laura’s kitchen and parlor.

I’m standing on the web site of the “Rock Home,” which Rose (Laura/Almanzo’s daughter) constructed as a present to her dad and mom down the road from Rocky Ridge Farm. After residing there a couple of years, they stated it was “too fancy” for them and that they have been homesick for the farm – so that they moved again down the road!

Tour the Little Home on Rocky Ridge Farm:

(Click on right here for the video if you happen to can’t see it beneath.)

Be taught extra about Rocky Ridge farm:

I hope you loved this Little Home digital discipline journey out west with Laura and me – a particular due to Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Woman for all the fantastic video clips!

Head right here to learn all Jamie’s posts re: Little Home – together with the one after we returned from our journey!

“It has been years since I beat eggs with a fork or cleaned a kerosene lamp. Many issues have modified since then, however the truths we discovered from our dad and mom and the rules they taught us are all the time true. They will by no means change.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder, reflecting on her well-known collection

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