My children and I have just begun using the Prairie Primer and we LOVE it! It has been such a breath of fresh air in what had become a stuffy homeschool room.

It's as though the Lord opened a window in this stuffy four walled room of ours and let the breeze come blowing in.

I have always loved "The Little House" series but to get to read them everyday for studies-what a treat! This is my first time doing a unit study and it just makes so much sense. Our studies feel more complete now, less fragmented. We can see how they all fit together. For example:

     Today we were reading about an encounter w/ what was at first thought of as a mad dog (turns out it was actually protecting the family from a panther) which led to us reading about rabies from the encyclopedia. At the end of the entry it listed Louis Pasteur as another topic to look up which we already had a NEST video of thanks to the suggestions in the PP. So we watched that and learned about his contribution of the rabies vaccine. And then tonight we watched Old Yeller, which took on so much more meaning. ; )