Portraits of American Girlhood is a wonderful curriculum based on the American Girl books and is written by Cindy Sotelo of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I am in no way affiliated with Portraits of American Girlhood. I began this blog as a safe way to have lots of great resources that go along with the books and curriculum in one place, reducing the time for parents to look for information on-line so they can spend more time learning together as a family.

I began this blog in June of 2010 and it will probably take me a year to complete it. I hope that you find it helpful; however, if you come across any links or videos that are questionable or no longer working, please leave me a comment so I can make the necessary changes.

Here are the American Girls we have studied so far...






Happy Birthday, Kit - Week 4

WORD LIST:
(from the Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

Frugal - Economical in the use or appropriation of money, goods or provisions of any kind; saving unnecessary expense, either of money or of any thing else which is to be used or consumed; sparing; not profuse, prodigal or lavish. We ought to be frugal not only in the expenditure of money and of goods, but in the employment of time. It is followed by of, before the thing saved; as frugal of time. It is not synonymous with parsimonious, nor with thrifty, as now used.

Twang - 1) v.i. To sound with a quick sharp noise; to make the sound of a string which is stretched and suddenly pulled; as the twanging bows. 2) v.t. To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly. Sound the tough horn, and twang the quivering string. 3)  n. A sharp quick sound; as the twang of a bowstring; a twang of the nose. An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.

Almanac - AL'MANACK, n. A small book or table, containing a calendar of days, weeks and months, with the times of the rising of the sun and moon, changes of the moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, stated terms of courts, observations on the weather, &c. for the year ensuing. this calendar is sometimes published on one side of a single sheet, and called a sheet-almanack. The Baltic nations formerly engraved their calendars on pieces of wood, on swords, helves of axes, and various other utensils, and especially on walking sticks. many of these are preserved in the cabinets of the curious. they are called by different nations, rimstocks, primstories, runstocks, runstaffs, clogs, etc.


FRUGAL TIPS FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION:





WASTE NOT/WANT NOT IDEAS:
(Inspired by Aunt Millie)


Kit's Radio Script (American Girl Publishing)

Penny Pincher Puzzle (American Girl)

"Waste Not, Want Not" (by Home Made Happy)


OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS:



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