Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, arts and crafts, non-fiction on December 13, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Every Monday, kidlit bloggers celebrate some of the fantastic non-fiction available for kids and teens. I’m excited to be hosting today’s Non-Fiction Monday Round Up! Leave a link to your post about a non-fiction title in the comments, and I’ll update throughout the day.
My selection for today is 50 Things to Draw and Paint. I [...]
Posted in arts and crafts, homeschool, non-fiction, picture books on December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We had so much fun the morning we studied Scottish terriers after reading Angus Lost that M suggested we have lots more animals days. We’ve had a horse day soon thereafter, and a few weeks ago, we had a dolphin day.
After breakfast, we watched several You Tube videos about dolphins including one where they play [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, reading on December 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We picked up Bubble Homes and Fish Farts by Fiona Bayrock from the library. We’ve recently done several experiments with bubbles and watched an awesome video of dolphins playing with bubbles so I knew M would love it.
The balance of text and illustrations was perfect. M wanted to hear every word, and the illustrations and [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, cybils, non-fiction, reading on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Flamingos by Jean M. Malone is an Easy Reader nominee for the 2009 Cybils. It’s part of the All Aboard Science Reader series. The book is well-written and filled with fascinating facts about these iconic pink birds.
Among other things, I learned that the high level of carotene in their diet turns flamingos’ feathers pink and [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, reading on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
M has loved the Magic Tree House series for several years but we’ve only just begun to use the Research Guides that accompany some of the books. Last week, taking a chapter at a time, we read Pilgrims (Magic Tree House Research Guide #13). This is a companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday which we “re-read” [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, reading on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We found Dinosaurs in Your Backyard: The Coolest, Scariest, Creatures Ever Found in the USA by Hugh Brewster on the new books shelf at the library. M loved the cover picture of a roaring dinosaur in front of a suburban neighborhood and the idea of learning about dinosaurs who might have lived where we live [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, homeschool, non-fiction, reading on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d read many positive reviews of The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History and I’d been looking forward to checking it out when we were ready to use it. I requested it from the library last week, and I was pleasantly surprised to see what a large portion was devoted to prehistory since that’s what [...]
Posted in booklists, homeschool, non-fiction, prehistory on November 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
As I mentioned here, we’ll be embarking on a study of the prehistoric world after Christmas. I’m making our curriculum myself so I’ve started by putting together a book list. I’m excited about all the cool titles I’ve written down to investigate and the ones I already know that we’ll love. We’ve done a lot [...]
Posted in homeschool, non-fiction, reading on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When we decided what to do for M’s first grade year, we toyed with the idea of homeschooling full time, but ultimately chose for her to stay with the three day per week distance learning program she’d been in for kindergarten, giving us a balance of school and homeschool. As the weeks have gone by, [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, picture books, reading on November 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m making plans for a prehistory/evolution study with 6yo M, so when I saw Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins on top of a library shelf, I grabbed it. C (2yo) saw it in the library bag and asked me to read it, so the three of us sat down and [...]
