Little House in the Big Woods by Noah

There are lots of things that have happened so far in the book.  They smoked their meats in a big hollow tree so the meat will last longer.  They went to their grandpa's house to have a party and to help get maple sap which is the tree's blood after Christmas during the Sugar Snow. There was a party and their grandma got snow from the ground outside and put it in their plates and then they put the maple syrup hot from the stove onto the snow and they ate it like candy.  There was plenty for everybody.  The Sugar Snow meant that the trees would make more Maple Sap.  On funny part was when Pa was coming home and it was dark.  He didn't have his gun and he saw what he thought was a bear in the road.  He yelled at it and yelled and ran to hit it with a log but when he did, he saw it was just a log.  The same night, Ma and Laura went to feed the cow and Ma thought their cow was out, so she slapped it to make it move away from the gate.  But she actually slapped a bear.  He was so surprised he didn't even move.  The bear was like, "Huh?"  She took Laura back to the house.  Today we read about them going to town.  Laura was excited because she was old enough to go to town. Laura had never seen a town or a store before and she was so excited, she couldn't talk.  She went to the store her Pa usually goes to to trade his furs.  They traded for hours.  Ma got fabric to make clothes and underwear and Pa told Ma to pick one to make a new apron with.  She picked one with flowers on it.  I really like this story but we're almost done reading it.  Next we get to read Huckleberry Finn.  I love this part of our day, when Mom reads to us.