This will be our first year using Sonlight also after years and years of hs'ing. We chose it because I have two high schoolers who are less...
How about: The Cay Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry A Door in the Wall A Long Way From Chicago The Wave Freckles The Golden Goblet Many great ones...
My youngest LOVES the Wimpy kid series. They are great for fun reading, especially since we travel frequently and spend HOURS in the car. He...
We did 2 years of Spanish with Learnables. I highly recommend it. It's like Rosetta Stone (without the computer) at a FRACTION of the price. We...
When we lived in the west, sir and ma'am was not used. In fact, it was seen as insulting to customers (I worked in a bank) because it indicated...
How about Eragon? My oldest is an aspiring novelist and Christopher Paolini is his homeschool "hero" (of sorts.) My boys also enjoyed The...
The author Kate Seredy sounds familiar. I'll look for both of those books. Thank you for the suggestions, Jackie. I have a son who reads...
What about Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder? We found a picture book version of Black Ships Before Troy (a historical fiction by Rosemary...
Thank you all SOOOOO much. These are just great. I've added all these titles to my "possibles" list. What I did last year was create an...
We LOVED Tom Sawyer and the original Alice in Wonderland is one of my son's all time favorites. Great fun exercise: Use the poem "Jabberwocky"...
Great list. Thank you SOOOO much! Here are the ones we did this year that they loved: Crispin: A Cross of Lead Johnny Tremain A...
Bummer....I just swapped that book on paperback swap. I hadn't even thought of that one.
At the library, along with allowing your daughter to choose books, pick some fantastic picture books yourself...I would recommend Caldecott award...
What are some of your children's all time favorite literary works? I lead a literature club for grades 6-8 in our homeschool group but want to...
What about doing a lot more reading to her with great picture books, and following along with your finger under the words you are reading?...
We don't use the same recipes camping as at home in order to give the kiddos some variety. I googled "camping recipes" and adapted for our...
We enjoy: rice cakes with peanut butter and applesauce Ramen w/cooked chicken and sliced celery. (cooks in 3 min.) peanut butter & honey...
Excellent point! What about institutionalized schooling is like real life? I love it when people point out that in a job setting, we work with...
We loved studying the middle ages. Depending on your kiddos ages, here is what we did. Good: We read historical fiction (Door in the Wall,...
My boys use our dog (and cat, occasionally the birds) to get out of schoolwork too. When I get frustrated, she goes out on her tie out...which...
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