I decided in 2015-2016 to take a break in the beginning of the year from the Flower Fairy Tale Books collected by Andrew Lang. I believe I ...

This is just a quick post to share the kinds of poems and verses the kids memorized in their respective grades. I remember early on I would ...

It's make-up work time on the blog, I guess. I never posted our family read alouds for 2015-2016. That school year I had a sixth grader,...

I started some reading lessons with Second Son, my fourth and youngest child, during his pre-kindergarten year, focusing on phonics using Do...

Second Daughter just finished her third grade year in 2018, so of course it's time to post her kindergarten and first grade books. I...

As you can see, I'm still finishing up drafts from years ago. These are the books we read when focusing for a year on the countries, c...

Rivers and Oceans Young Discoverers series by Barbara Taylor (also part of The Earth: The Geography of our World ) This is the bo...

Artistic Pursuits Early Elementary K-3, Book One An Introduction to the Visual Arts This book is not recommended in the Mater Amabi...

Poetry is a part of our culture studies loop: Three or four times a week, depending on our schedule, we loop through these subjects: Sha...

Holy Friends: Thirty Saints and Blesseds of the Americas Written by Diana M. Amadeo Illustrated by Irina Lombardo with Augusto Curreli...

Me: A Compendium created by Wee Society Second Son is in first grade this year and, as I mentioned earlier this week , I like to choo...

These are the picture books we read when Reading Around the World with a focus on the continent of Africa. Oh so long ago, my children wer...