We began with a fun book, Going to Town, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The publication on this book is in the 1930s, so provided us with some great visuals of the old days. Laura and her family live in a log home in the woods. They are very excited to take a trip into town. The girls did their hair and put on their fanciest dresses to head into town on their horse-drawn wagon. They had never been to the store or seen a town so big. Danny was very interested in the book and wanted to know all about the characters in the story. We talked about all the differences from how things are today, as well as they used a wagon vs. a car, drove on a dirt road vs. paved, and they talked about trading at the store. We discussed different ways Pa could trade at the store. We watched a Brain Pop Jr. learning video about homes. We saw various pictures about types of homes and compared them to how homes looked long ago. Danny completed his flip pictures for his interactive notebook. After discussion, we wrote for long ago (People lived in simple log homes.) and for today (People live in houses with many rooms.). We continued on with a nonfiction book, Communication: Then and Now by Robin Nelson. We saw comparisons such as hieroglyphics vs. words to tell stories, using a radio vs. television and computer to get the news, and use of the Pony Express to deliver important news. Danny completed his flip pictures for his interactive notebook writing that long-ago people wrote letters and today people send emails or texts.