Pioneer Girls Club

Books About Pioneer Girls

zoeas — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:35:36 +0000

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Laura Ingalls Wilder series is about a little girl who starts out as Laura Ingalls and gradually grow up to be a school teacher and then a farmer’s wife and a mother of one child. I recommend this series for girls who are adventureous, because Laura was an adventureous girl. My favorite book in the series is probably “The First Four Years”.

book cover of “The First Four Years”book cover of “The First Four Years”

Caddie Woodlawn

Caddie Woodlawn is a tomboy, and she and her two brothers are always getting into trouble. She has one other brother, who is a baby. She also has three sisters. I recommend this book for girls who are tomboys and for girls who sometimes get into trouble. My favorite part of the book is probably when Uncle Edmund loosens the roes on the raft that hold the raft together, and Caddie falls off.

book cover of “Caddie Woodlawn”

Schools

zoeas — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:28:40 +0000

You might go to a one room schoolhouse. Your teacher would sit in the front of the room at a big desk. Almost all of the students would sit on long benches with desks in front of them. The smallest students would sit in the front of the room with no desks. Older students would sit toward the back of the room. Students were arranged by age, from smallest to oldest.

inside a one room schoolhouse

outside a one room schoolhouse

Homes

zoeas — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:08:51 +0000

If you lived in the woods, you might live in a log house when you first start living in the area. If you lived near a creek or spring, you might start out with a house made out of sod, which is rough prarie soil, and then move into a log house after a while. If you lived in the dry part of the prarie, you might live in a log house when you first start living in the area, like if you lived in the woods.

log house

Hardships

zoeas — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:29:02 +0000

grasshopper There were many hardships. If you lived in the dry part of the prarie, you might have millions and millions of grasshoppers eating all the crops.

Food

zoeas — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:11:40 +0000

If you lived in the woods, you might have deer and bear meat every night for dinner. If you lived on the dry part of the prarie, you might have a lot of salt pork and beans. If you lived near a creek or spring, you might have a lot of fish.

fish

Entertainment

zoeas — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:29:19 +0000

If you were living in the woods, you might play outdoors in a little clearing by your house. If you lived by a creek or spring, you might play in it every day.

Dangers

zoeas — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:41:11 +0000

There were many dangers. If you lived in the woods, you would have to look out for bears and wolves. If you lived in the dry part of the prarie, you would have to look out for wolves, cyclones and prarie fires. If you lived near a creek or spring, you would have to look out for leeches and storms that could flood the creek or spring.

leeches

wolves

bear

Clothes

zoeas — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:43:56 +0000

Summer clothes were very simple. If you lived alone with your parents, you might wear a dress with no petticoat, wear your hair down and go barefoot. If there was a creek or spring where you lived, you might play in it almost every day.

bonnet

pioneer dress

Welcome to the Pioneer Girls Club!

zoeas — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:05:14 +0000

I am nine and going into fith grade in middle school. My club is a safe, fun, place where girls from all over America can talk about books or book series about pioneer girls like Caddie Woodlawn or Laura Ingalls Wilder. They can send messages to each other and get books written about four pioneer girls named Rachel, Caroline, Nellie and Suzanne.

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