Old-fashioned School: Hoedown

We are winding down with our old-fashioned unit, so we decided to have a little dance party hoedown. Our musical selection was a cd we found at the library called Happy Valley: A Tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder. All the songs were ones that had been mentioned in the Little House series.

I dredged up all my memories of learning square dancing in sixth grade. It really was the worst PE time, all that picking partners stuff. But I remembered some moves including the do-si-do and made up the ones I didn't. It was a little hard to square dance with only 2-3 people participating, but a few nights later, Mabel asked me if I would do-si-do her and we roped Daddy into dancing too and had a fun family dance night.