The Mitten

One of my favorite stories to read when I was a child was The Mitten. It’s a Ukrainian folktale and most often, the version I come across is by Jan Brett. But the version that I’m more familiar with and if only for sentimental reasons, the one I enjoy more is by Alvin Tresselt and [...]

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Smithsonian’s Backyard

For a while now, I’ve been meaning to do a review of these wonderful Smithsonian’s Backyard books that I stumbled across at our library. Time is limited here in chance of books homeschool but another lovely blogger has written about them here so for now I’ll leave you with a link to her review. Enjoy!

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On to Brazil

I hope to do more blog entries that are not about our country study, but for now it seems to be when I have the time we are in the midst of geography study and it’s fresh on my mind.  You can read my previous geography entries here for Argentina and here for the spine [...]

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file this in bizarre stories from history

I wish I could remember how I came across this book. It must have been on some world geography book list I found recently while making my lesson plans for our homeschool. At any rate, I’m glad I found it! The Giraffe That Walked to Paris is a children’s book based on true events from [...]

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Here comes Autumn

With autumn right around the corner, I thought I’d post a book to help you and your children prepare and know what to look for.  Count Down to Fall is a lovely book about all the changes we start to see when autumn comes.  Written by Fran Hawk and illustrated by Sherry Neidigh.  Each 2 [...]

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Author Focus: Jim Arnosky

Jim Arnosky is a well loved author in our house.  Sadly we don’t own any books by him, but I’m always on the look-out at book sales for his books.  He is author and illustrator of more than 100 children’s books with a focus on nature and wildlife.  They are great books for summer time.  [...]

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Be Who You Are

My just-turned-5-year-old read a book to me today.  He’s been reading on his own for a while, but mostly easy reader type books.  Today he read a book to me that no one has read to him in a long time, I was shocked at how much he has improved!  At the same time I [...]

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Slaying Dragons

There are so many great books on dragons and knights and I wish I had the time to post them here.  My son goes through these books faster than I can get to reading them myself.  But I know it will be an ongoing theme for me to review here.  We usually manage to have [...]

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Happy Firefly season!

Summer is nearly upon us but in our region, we’ve already begun to see the fireflies come out at night! This calls for a Firefly party!  Let your kids stay up later than usual, get some jars with holes poked in the top and catch some fireflies. To prepare for your firefly study, check out [...]

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From Times Square to the Old Meadow

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 [...]

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