Thanksgiving Books

I looked at my list of favorite Thanksgiving books for kids and realized it was quite short.  I’d love to hear more suggestions!
Here are our favorites:
In November by Cynthia Rylant
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin
Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac
Over the River and Through the Woods by Lydia Maria Child
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: Usborne Encyclopedia of World History

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 [...]

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Homeschooling: Taking the Plunge

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, [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, November 4

M is reading the first story in The Norby Chronicles by Janet and Issac Asimov with her dad. She and I finished up Ballet Shoes by Noel Streffeild and read Dolphin Treasure by Wayne Grover.  Now we’re reading Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop.

Every time I sit down to read with C before her [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: Life on Earth by Steve Jenkins

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 [...]

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Cybils Book Reviews, October 27

Three books from the Elephant and Piggie Series by Mo Willems have been nominated in the Cybils Easy Reader and Short Chapter book category.
We’ve enjoyed all the books we’ve read in this series.  They were the first books M read on her own.  The text is quite simple and repetitive, but the repetition often comes [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: What Makes A Magnet?

What Makes A Magnet? by Franklyn Branley is another title from the excellent Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. M and I checked it out and did several of the suggested experiments a few years ago, but she remembered it recently and asked me to get it again.  She’s been wanting to do some magnet experimen,t but she [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, October 22

M had a big week.  She realized she was ready to start reading some short chapter books on her own.  So she’s been reading Dolphins at Daybreak and Lions at Lunchtime, both part of the Magic Tree House series.

I read Surprise Island, the second book in the Boxcar Children series to her, and now we’re [...]

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You’re Never Too Old for Picture Books

When I write What We’re Reading This Week posts, I typically talk about chapter books I’m reading to M and picture books I’m reading to C. I realized I may be giving the false impression that I rarely read picture books to M now that we are engrossed in the world of chapter books.  That [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: Reign of the Sea Dragons

I picked up Reign of the Sea Dragons by Sneed B. Collard  from the New Arrivals shelf at our library. I thought M would enjoy the descriptions of prehistoric sea creatures and their evolution since she is fascinated by large creatures of the sea and dinosaurs.  The inside cover has shows a scaled comparison of [...]

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