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Archive of posts filed under the Read Aloud category.
Online Unit Studies, aka Free Homeschooling!
First, I looked around online and there are approximately 473 millionbilliontrillion literature based unit studies/lapbook/notebook plans already out there, and some of it is even free for the printing! Overwhelming? Just a tad. I had to sleep on it. I came up with a S.T.E.L.L.A.R. plan. Shop right here on my book shelves, choose several [...]
The Read-Aloud Way of Life
I haven’t been reading nearly enough to my kids. I read to them every day, but just not enough. Not enough time reading and not enough variety. I think the slump started when I decided to read Chronicles of Narnia to the younger kids. I had read it to the olders years ago. I’m sorry to [...]
Favorites for Copywork/Memory-work and a list
Singing TimeI wake in the morning earlyAnd always, the very first thingI poke out my headAnd I sit up in bedAnd I sing, and I sing, and I sing! by Rose Fyleman The Cow The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, [...]
Homeschooling back at the ranch
We’re still waiting for the cooler weather before we take some time off from school. I figured I’d give you a few updates on our homeschooling progress. Sally Mae is making huge strides in her reading. It’s been quite a few months since she learned the sounds the letters make. At that time she also [...]
If
If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, [...]
Memory Work for Little Folks
I love The Book of Virtues. Any book that has stories for everyone in the whole family, regardless of age, has my attention. I always appreciate any book with such wide application. The fact that it’s arranged, within each chapter, with stories for the youngers in front and the olders in back makes it so [...]
More Runny Babbit
I love Shel Silverstien’s books. I read all of Runny Babbit to my 3 youngers this morning. If you like words and linguistic linguini then you probably like him too. This one is my favorite… today. Runny’s Jig Bump Runny be quimble, Runny be nick, Runny cump over the jandlestick. But now–what smells like furning [...]
