Category: Language Arts
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Book Review: “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy”
In the summer my family convenes at my parent’s home in Maine. There is a wonderful book store that I look forward to visiting each and every year. The kids and I read “Lizzy Bright and the Buckminster Boy” by Gary Schmidt at the recommendation of the friendly staff at BookStacks. We loved this book.…
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Book Review: 90 Miles to Havana
I stumbled on the book 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis by accident and am so very glad I did. It is one of my favorite books that the kids and I have read this year. The book is phenomenal in so many ways. If you live in south Florida the Cuban influence is…
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State Study: Hawaii
“A Lei for Tutu” by Rebecca Nevers Fellows “How Maui Slowed the Sun” by Suelyn Ching Tune “The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani of Hawaii” by Fay Stanley “Remember Pearl Harbor” by Thomas B. Stanley “Pearl Harbor Ready to Read” by Stephen Krensky “Dog of the Sea Waves” by James Rumford “High Tide…
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Artist Study: Frida Kahlo
We were very excited when we learned that the Nova Southeastern University Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale would be showing a traveling Frida Kahlo/Diego Rivera Exhibit. Last spring we traveled to the Yucatan for a family wedding. While my husband had been before it was the kids and my first time in Mexico. We…
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Book Review
Non-fiction can be seriously dry and boring. We came across these two books this week and really enjoyed them both. They were both really well written, informative, and entertaining. “Buried In Ice The Mystery of a Lost Arctic Expedition” Is the story of Sir John Franklin’s ill fated arctic expedition in search of a northwest…
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Thomas Edison Lap Book
Lap books are a great way to organize facts that we have learned. I found this lap book on the blog “Confessions of a Homeschooler“. They use Mike Venezia’s book as a basis for the information. You can purchase the template on the Confessions of a Homeschooler website for two dollars, extremely worth the money. …
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Sarah Breedlove Walker
We continue our study of the fifty states. This week we are studying the state whose name means “land of the Indians”, Indiana. In the process we stumbled on a real treasure in the way of a book. It is entitled “Vision of Beauty”. It is the story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. I admittedly…
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Great Books for Teaching Your Child To Read
Today, someone asked me if I could recommend a book that would help her get her young child reading. I get asked this a lot. The truth is all kids learn differently, so there isn’t one “silver bullet” book that is guaranteed to get a child reading. With that said, there are two books that…