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Read Alouds to go with Nature Study
I was lamenting as I wrote my post about fiction books about science the other day that there are so few great children’s books that really focus on science. Then, I suddenly realized that there are actually plenty of books … Continue reading
A Ballet Book and Movie for BalletBoy
Last week there seemed to be a lot of ballet media at the Rowhouse. Over the years, lots of ballet books have come through our house, but most of them have not been loved, honestly. BalletBoy likes the idea of … Continue reading
Another Comics Round Up
Hey, it’s time for another round up of comics and graphic novels here in the rowhouse. Our co-op has just finished studying comics and it’s been fun to see the kids all hard at work on their own comics, sharing … Continue reading
More Poetry Tea Books and some Apple Cake
I got lovely suggestions last time I posted about our poetry tea books and have taken more books out so I’m doing another post of them. In case you’re curious, here’s the first post of books we were using and … Continue reading
The Life of Trees
I know I haven’t been as vigilant about science posting. Still, we’ve been at it, studying plants, including taking advantage of the National Botanic Garden’s new homeschool classes, peering in microscopes at onion cells and flower pollen, measuring trees and, … Continue reading
What We’re Reading
I’ve been doing a bit less book blogging lately, but we have, as always been reading. Here’s what has passed across our shelves in the last few weeks: Mushroom’s Bookshelf: Frindle by Andrew Clements Mushroom chose this to be his … Continue reading
The Rediscovery of Picture Books
Mushroom and BalletBoy, in the last few months, have rediscovered picture books as independent reads. We have never totally left picture books behind us. We kept reading them aloud occasionally for fun, as well as many that tied into history … Continue reading
Max Axiom
Max Axiom is a series of science comic books that I’ve been hearing about for awhile, but finally broke down an bought a few of. Unfortunately, they don’t have them at my library. There are many volumes of the series … Continue reading
Historical Fiction Overload
We’ve been a little overloaded with historical fiction read alouds for American history this year. In the middle of the last book, both kids gave me a pleading look and declared that they were done. They wanted something different so … Continue reading
Required Reading… Sort Of
I went back and forth and back and forth about introducing required reading this year for the first time. It’s third gradeish this coming year. Both the boys can read well enough to be assigned a book like something from … Continue reading
