Maple Bars and Scattering Seeds

Zion is really learning a lot about "how things used to be" , in the Little House in the Big Woods book and he's loving it. Today he learned about how maple syrup is made. He now wants to try and get some "syrup" out of the tree in our back yard. I haven't decided yet if this is a good idea or a bad idea. We'll have to do some research and see if our tree is indeed a "maple syrup" tree.

After the lesson was over, he got to make "Maple Bars" with the original recipe from Laura Ingalls. (pretty cool, if you ask me)

He sifted the flour...

put all the ingredients together, spread it in the pan, and placed it in the oven, with only a little help from me.

Ta- Da! The kids love these. I'm not a huge maple fan, so I only ate a very small piece. I think I'll leave the rest to the kids.


We are learning all about plants, dirt and seeds, this week. Today's lesson was about "how the seeds get scattered".

So taking a handful of mixed seeds....

...we went outside and placed them onto a spread out sheet.

The Zion pretended to be the wind and "scattered" the seeds.

He will be making up a few projects over the weekend, since I hadn't made it to the store for some of the supplies. But he's excited about it. If your kids are excited about doing school on a weekend, I think its safe to say that you have found a great curriculium.