My kids and I have been spending a week delving into the early years of the church and how Jesus’ message spread from the disciples out into the world. We are in between our history books, so I thought it would be a good time to take a break to really focus on the early [...]
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From Times Square to the Old Meadow
Posted in Nature & Animals, Read Alouds, tagged animals, environment, friendship, Garth Williams, George Selden, insects, meadow, mice, nature, New York, Newbery Honor, subway on June 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our family is currently enjoying the world of Chester Cricket, Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat, as told by author George Selden. Selden has a long series of books about these lovable animals, the first is the most well known, The Cricket in Times Square and has received a Newbery Honor. This book tells the story [...]
Running away with Sam Gribley
Posted in Just for Fun, Read Alouds, tagged adventure, animals, boys, nature, Newbery Honor on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My almost 7 year old son has been living on his own on the side of a mountain for the past couple weeks. At least he does every afternoon during his free reading time when he cracks open Jean Craighead George’s My Side of the Mountain. This work of fiction, a chapter book, and Newberry [...]
Homer
Posted in Read Alouds, tagged adventure, boys, Robert McCloskey, small town on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t worry I’m not getting too sophisticated yet…I’m just referring to our current read-aloud, Robert McCloskey’s Homer Price. I loved McCloskey’s One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal when I was younger, so I was happy to learn as an adult that he had written longer chapter books. Part of the charm of Homer [...]
Don Quixote…an update
Posted in History, Just for Fun, Read Alouds, tagged knights, margaret hodges, spain on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently wrote about Don Quixote for kids and wanted to give an update to another book we found in the library. Margaret Hodges is a wonderful author of children’s books and most everything I’ve read by her I give high marks. Our most recent read by her was St. Jerome and the Lion. We [...]
Monday Read Aloud: Fairy Books
Posted in Read Alouds, tagged andrew lang, fairy tales on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In many many book lists for young children, I’ve seen mentioned Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. They are suggested read alouds for kindergarten and first grade aged children. So, I thought it was time to check it out of the library. We started with Blue Fairy Book. You can see many of the different Fairy Book [...]
Monday Read Aloud: Penguins
Posted in Nature & Animals, Read Alouds, tagged antarctic, birds, penguins, pets on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mr. Popper’s Penguin’s was one of those books I had heard the title of many times in my life but somehow escaped actually reading it. Richard and Florence Atwater are the author’s of this week’s Monday Read Aloud focus. I finally read this book to my 4 and 6 year old boys over the [...]
Monday read aloud: My Father’s Dragon
Posted in Read Alouds, tagged adventure, animals, dragon on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ruth Stiles Gannett wrote a trilogy called Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon. They feature a 9 year old boy, named Elmer Elevator who’s adventure begins with a rescue mission to find a baby dragon held captive by wild animals on a faraway island. This is a great read-aloud for many ages. My 6 [...]
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