Our history book club book for the month of March was The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz. It is the story of a girl named Ann Hamilton whose family has moved into the frontier and she isn't very happy about it. Through some unexpected events, Ann begins to see the value of the land that her family and even General George Washington are so interested in. This was an easy and enjoyable read.
Jared made a diorama for his book report. He chose to portray the scene where George Washington comes down the road and surprises Ann by asking what her mother is cooking for dinner. Jared used sticks and painted cotton balls to make trees. He used playdough to create the grass and road as well as the gardens around the cabin. The cabin was built with pretzel sticks and frosting. We later tried to do the cabin building with the whole book group. It was fun and yummy all at once.
A memorable part of the story is when a storm comes and Ann chooses to rescue the peas from the garden. She shows surprising courage as she continually fills her apron with peas, brings them to the cabin, then heads back into the storm to save the remaining pods. We re-enacted this scene with a relay race. Each of the kids had on aprons and had to pass an apronfull of dried peas to the next kid. In the end, there weren't many peas left, but there were a lot of laughs.
Jared made a diorama for his book report. He chose to portray the scene where George Washington comes down the road and surprises Ann by asking what her mother is cooking for dinner. Jared used sticks and painted cotton balls to make trees. He used playdough to create the grass and road as well as the gardens around the cabin. The cabin was built with pretzel sticks and frosting. We later tried to do the cabin building with the whole book group. It was fun and yummy all at once.
A memorable part of the story is when a storm comes and Ann chooses to rescue the peas from the garden. She shows surprising courage as she continually fills her apron with peas, brings them to the cabin, then heads back into the storm to save the remaining pods. We re-enacted this scene with a relay race. Each of the kids had on aprons and had to pass an apronfull of dried peas to the next kid. In the end, there weren't many peas left, but there were a lot of laughs. 