Reading for April

Historic Reading Posters - Wee Willie Winkie

Here is my reading list for April.

Fiction:

An Emerald Ballad by B.J. Hoff
#3 - Land of a Thousand Dreams
#4 - Sons of an Ancient Glory
#5 - Dawn of the Golden Promise

The Great Brain Series by John D. Fitzgerald
The Great Brain
More Adventures of the Great Brain
Me and My Little Brain
The Great Brain at the Academy

Books by Miss Read
Miss Read Farther Afield - Miss Read
Village School - Miss Read

Others:
Waiting for Summer's Return - Kim Vogel Sawyer
The Winged Watchman - Hilda Van Stockum
Men of Iron - Howard Pyle
The Miracle - Gilbert Morris
On the Wings of Heroes - Richard Peck
An Irish Country Doctor - Patrick Taylor

Non-Fiction:*
The Adventures of Marco Polo - Russell Freeman
Raising Motivated Kids - Cheri Fuller
A Guide to Elegance - Genevieve Antoine Dariaux
A Woman's Call to Prayer - Elizabeth George
Island of Saints - Andy Andrews
No Ordinary Home - Carol Brazo

Audio Books:
The Upstairs Room - Johanna Reiss
Then There Were Five - Elizabeth Enright
On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder
By the Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder

*Please note: I normally do not read this many non-fiction books. This happened to be a month that I finished some that I had started months ago.

I'm still alive!!

I'm very sorry about my absence. Life happened! We were involved in a Convention for young people and then my parents came for a visit. After about 1 month off from school we are fixing to start up again tomorrow!

Tulip Festival!

Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day. We decided to go to the local Tulip Festival. We throughly enjoyed all the different variety of tulips.

Handwriting

For our handwriting curriculum we use copywork as advocated by Charlotte Mason. I complile a list from our reading selections for the week. A valuable resource is the Ambleside Online Copywork Yahoo Group. Here is one selection Caleb had this week:

Poetry-Christina Rossetti

Brown and furry

Caterpillar in a hurry,

Take your walk

To the shady leaf, or stalk,

Or what not,

Which may be the chosen spot.

No toad spy you,

Hovering bird of prey pass by you;

Spin and die,

To live again a butterfly.

Snapshots of Easter

Favorite Candy!

The Handsome Brothers!


The Really Pretty Daughter!

Mom & Kids

Dad & Kids

The Real Reason for Celebration!

Birthday Cards

We had a rash of birthdays in March. These are cards I made for my nieces and nephew.

Books read in March

Historic Reading Posters - In March Read the Books
Books read and listened to in March:

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen

The Galway Chronicles by Bodie & Brock Thoene
#1-Only the River Runs Free
#2-Of Men & of Angels
#3-Ashes of Remembrance
#4-All Rivers to the Sea

Heirs of Anton by Susan K. Downs/Susan May Warren
#2-Nadia
#3-Marina
#4-Oksana
(Read #1-Ekaterina in February)

The Captain's Dog Roland Smith
A Good Year Peter Mayle

Song of Ireland by B.J. Hoff
#1-Cloth of Heaven
#2-Ashes and Lace
Lightening & Lace Diann Mills

An Emerald Ballad by B.J. Hoff
#1-Song of the Silent Harp B.J. Hoff,
#2-Heart of the Lonely Exile

Audio Books:
All Creature Great and Small - James Herriot
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingles Wilder