As a homeschooler, BOOKS are everything. They are our hobby and curriculum, they are the center of family time, leisure time, they are in every room in our house, we LOVE books and we REALLY love high quality, beautifully illustrated/photographed science books. There’s just no substitute for beautiful pictures/illustrations. Science is a visual subject, we … Read more
I am beyond excited that there’s a new addition to Julia Rothman’s anatomy collection and it is every bit as lovable as the other titles in the series. I love to use these books as a spine to build a science study unit around. The books are organized by topic so it’s easy to pull … Read more
We have been learning lots about animals in our homeschool adventures – I try to have my boys read a few nonfiction books every day and lots of times they choose to read about animals. These two books have been great resources for our at-home learning. Frozen Wild is a wonderful book about cold climate animals and … Read more
We’re using The Story of the World curriculum for history this year (and forever because we love it!) and just finished up our study about Christopher Columbus. We found several wonderful books about him I wanted to share with you! Some of these are chapter books, some are easy to read picture books, and others … Read more
We love children’s classics and have been reading one after another the last few months. We’ve been through Pinocchio, Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, and a few others. Most recently we picked up Ian Fleming’s modern classic, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This anniversary edition is beautiful with thick glossy paper, fun illustrations, and a … Read more
This week’s book is part of a series that is a new favorite of ours all about Math Adventures. I love the clever idea behind Sir Cumference (get it…Circumference??? As in the “the enclosing boundary of a curved geometric figure, especially a circle?” Ha!) There are 8 books in the series and they cover a … Read more
We just finished another great classic as our nighttime read! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, also illustrated by Robert Ingpen, our favorite guy. I have been surprised at how willing and excited my kids are to listen to classic stories – they’re definitely more complex and the language is sometimes difficult, especially for little kids! … Read more
We go to the library every other week at least and most of the time I have a few picture books I know I want but the rest I pick randomly and sometimes I get some really bad/boring/dumb books. The kids never mind but I do. If I’m going to read picture books for an … Read more
It’s hard work being a farmer and even harder running a dinosaur farm – but that’s just what the farmer does every day in this new book by Frann Preston-Gannon! The farmer wakes up very early to take care of all his animals and you find out pretty quick that all the animals on his … Read more
We’ve been working our way through children’s classics each night before bed time. It’s a wonderful way to end the day as a family enjoying fabulous literature together. We’re reading Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi right now and this edition, illustrated by Robert Ingpen, is my all-time favorite (published by Sterling Publishing). It’s a beautiful book with thick, … Read more