Around the World in Just One Book

For a while now, I’ve heard many recommendations in the homeschooling world for a DK book called Children Just Like Me:  A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World. It is often used as a jumping off book to study different countries and cultures around the world.  We finally got the book from the library [...]

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Grapes of Math

Continuing my Math kick for this week, I wanted to post my review of a book by Greg Tang. Mr. Tang has written many math type children’s books and we’ve enjoyed each one that we’ve read.  The Grapes of Math:  Mind-Stretching Math Riddles is a fun but challenging book.  It is definitely for ages 5+ [...]

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Wednesday Educational: Sir Cumference

As promised, here’s my first math book review! How do you combine teaching math concepts, corny puns, and knightly adventure?  Author Cindy Neushwander (don’t worry, her book is much easier to read than her last name!) has done so quite successfully.  Sir Cumference and the First Round Table:  A Math Adventure is a knightly tale [...]

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One plus One

My son just finished his first grade math book.  We’re going to keep trudging along, on into the 2nd grade level.  That’s the beauty of homeschooling.  But I wanted to find some fun books for my son to read in the next few weeks to review the concepts he’s learned in the last few months.  [...]

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Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science

I’ll admit it, I hate teaching my kids science.  It’s not the subject that frustrates me or is uninteresting, quite the contrary.  It’s that there is just so much out there and so many different ways to go about doing it that I get overwhelmed.  In our homeschool I tend towards thinking that a science [...]

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A different kind of Christmas reading

If you are searching for some Christmas or December reading that isn’t necessarily about the holiday, you might try this one: Regardless of how much you liked the politics of the former administration, former VP’s wife, Lynne Cheney is a great author of history story books for young children.  When Washington Crossed the Delaware:  A [...]

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Wednesday Educational: Ancient Egypt

We are following a classical approach to studying history in our homeschool.  Since my son is in first grade, we focus on Ancient History.  A large part of that is Ancient Egypt.  There are so many great books about Ancient Egypt written for kids, and I hope to highlight more along the way.  But I’ll [...]

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Wednesday Educational: DK Readers

When my son was learning to read, it seemed we couldn’t get our hands on enough easy readers to keep him interested and challeneged.  He finished the Bob Books and then we needed something else that was leveled, but that kept his interest as well.  One of the sets of readers that we enjoyed the [...]

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