Little House in Brookfield~Section 3

Little House in Brookfield~Maris D. Wilkes
I read from page 130 to page 180.

In the 50 pages that I read this week, Christmas happened.  Well, before that something else happened. Ma needed flour and the grocer didn't have some, and the miller wanted to sell it by the barrel not by the bag.  That night, a man that they had seen at the grocery store and at the mill came and brought them a sack of flour.  The man brought it the night before Christmas and just in time for Ma to make her Christmas bread with it (which was the same day that all of this happened.)  Caroline, Martha, Joseph, and Henry all saw it happen.  Caroline woke up in the middle of the night and went downstairs.  Ma happened to be there, so Caroline got to help make the Christmas bread.  The next morning they woke up to find packages by their spot on the table.  Everybody got a pair of mittens, and a peppermint stick. The girls got buttons to start a button collection, and the boys each got a carved horse.  Those horses were special because their father had carved them.  Then Mr. Carpenter brought over some plum pudding for them as a special treat.  That ended Christmas.  I am at the part were they want to play Fox and Geese, and they can only play it if they finish their ( the girls) lessons, and if the boys come home before dark, (the boys go to the school house during that day to do their lessons.)  That ends up happening, but they haven't gone out to play it yet.

Question:  My question this week is, why does Joseph go to the school house when he is so old.  I am just wondering because I thought that when you were older you stayed home to tend to the farm and stuff.  I know that they do not go to school in the summer because they are needed to plant the crops and things like that.

Prediction:  My prediction from last week was in a way correct and in a way wrong.  Like I said above in my summary, the man that they saw at the mill came and gave them a sack of flour, but lossing the vegetables didn't influence it at all.  My prediction this week is that they will get to go out and play Fox and Geese and they will have a lot of fun.

Connection:  This weeks connection is from text to self.  I am going to connect to the part about Caroline and Martha wanting to play Fox and Geese.  Sometimes in the winter we play Fox and Geese when there is fresh snow on the ground.  It is a very fun, but very tiring as well.

Key Question:  I would recommend this book to a person who really likes to learn about the past.  The reason why I would recommend it to that person is because there are a lot of historical things in these books, they tell you what life was like.  The author tells you what they did or what their chores were on a day to day basis.  You learn about what they ate, and what they did during their free time.  All in all, you learn a lot about what life was like in the 1800s.