Recently we started a parent/child book club based on the format in Deconstructing Penguins mentioned in the previous post. Towards the end of Deconstructing Penguins, the Lawrence’s give a list of a few great books to start your book club with. The first one on the list was The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster.
This lively humorous children’s book [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Reading’
November 20, 2009
The Phantom Tollbooth
April 11, 2008
Guardians of Ga’Hoole
A recent and far too long library strike caused me to search for some fresh reading material for my youngest literature deprived dd. During a routine trip to Costco, I came across a bundle of three books from a children’s series called Guardians of Ga’Hoole. Not being able to read the back of the books, due to [...]
March 21, 2008
What I wish I’d known my first year of homeschooling.
The Friday meme over at Heart of the Matter is along the theme of – What I wish I’d known. I always make a point of not reading others posts on the meme before I write my own. I hope for originality- it’s more like surprise. Like the grey hair I pulled out of my head [...]
March 19, 2008
Writing Resources
Last weekend we attended the 2008 Pacific Festival of the Book – which, by the way was a great success. This was a great place to take the kiddos and expose them to not only, new and exciting literature, but also to give them an opportunity to meet the authors themselves. There were indeed some [...]
January 10, 2008
Can you hear that?
That’s right, I don’t hear anything except the sound of the rain!
Yes, we’re all here this morning and we’re doing school. That silence is the sound of reading folks. That’s right - voluntary quiet reading. No noisy toys, no television, no video games (they don’t live in my house)
One of the many perks of [...]
October 6, 2007
Have You Lost the Art of Reading for Pleasure?
I recently joined a book club. I think it was a good decision. How much time do you have to read? Do you watch TV in the evenings? Too tired after work or a long day? Does reading anything over the equivalent of the newspaper or People Magazine seem too much of a task? Well, don’t [...]
June 17, 2007
What we’re reading together
Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times – by Ruth Beechick
This is our current read aloud. I read ahead and just finished the book because it was particularly fascinating. It’s historical fiction folks. The author makes that clear. It’s not up for theological debate. But a great read aloud! It is [...]
May 9, 2007
Books, Books, and More Books!
So many good books, too little time.
As the weather starts to warm up, we spend less time indoors doing schoolwork. We have pretty much finished up our studies for this year, so as we wind down, our indoor activities start to turn into outdoor activities. Over the summer though, there is one activity that never stops. That [...]
