This Thursday is Remembrance Day in Canada, a day in which we remember and thank those who have served in Canada’s armed forces, in both wartime and peacekeeping duties. Many other countries hold a similar day of remembrance on November 11th, marking the formal end of WWI on the 11th hour of the 11th day [...]
The boys and I did very little “formal” homeschooling today, for reasons involving a HS drama class smack in the middle of the day, unusually warm weather, a Halloween candy hangover, and all of us with the sniffles and fighting off colds. But we did do some reading this morning, including a book about camouflage [...]
One of the changes I’ve made in our math lessons is to incorporate more math readers—books and stories are always a big hit with my kids, and a reminder to me that doing math does not have to mean doing worksheets. (Though we do those too). I wrote about Sir Cumference and the First Round [...]
Last night I finished one of the chapter books I’d been reading to the boys before bed: Oliver Butterworth’s 1956 classic The Enormous Egg (Canada) (US). Twelve-year-old Nate Twitchell, a farm boy from New Hampshire, tells the story of ‘Uncle Beazley’, a triceratops that hatched from an enormous egg laid by one of the family’s hens. [...]
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Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
The boys and I recently read A Bear Called Paddington (a fuller review in my forthcoming Reading Round-Up), and I was struck by the complex sentence structure and vocabulary of this book published in 1958—it seemed so much richer than much of the literature for young children today. My impressions were no doubt heightened as [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]