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Read Aloud Thursday: It’s a Butterfly’s Life
Believe it or not, we’ve been reading The Burgess Bird Book faithfully every day since I posted on it on July 28. We’ve also made a few forays into others works as well,…
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Read Aloud Thursday: Burgess Bird Book
It’s no secret around these parts that we’ve been bird watching all summer. Thornton Burgess’s books have been a nice fit as read-alouds, and recent titles have included The Adventures of Mr Mocker…
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Read Aloud Thursday: Trees
We’ve enjoyed three amazing books about trees this week. Ancient Ones: The World of the Old Growth Douglas Fir is a beautifully illustrated, calligraphied, wonderfully informative book by Barbara Bash. The detail is…
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Wetland Read Alouds
We’ve been reading lots of books about wetlands this week, learning about the interrelationships in hopes of sharpening our observations at a local nature preserve. I didn’t have time to post yesterday, but…
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Read Aloud Thursday: The Silver Pony
I asked my daughters for their votes on the question of what their favorite read-alouds lately have been. Instantly, my third-grader replied, “The Book of Three. Because it’s so adventurous. But I feel…
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Read-alouds and the moral imagination
I’m reading Live Not By Lies, by Rod Dreher. It’s a discussion of the “soft totalitarianism” spreading in America, and how people in general, and Christians in particular, can be alert to it…
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Read-Aloud Thursday: Parrots, Hamsters, Goblins, and American History
I’ve wanted to participate in Read Aloud Thursday for awhile now. It’s an opportunity to share the books your family is experiencing together. I have an 11-year-old and a 9-year-old, and as usual…
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Read-Aloud Thursday: Herons
We’re into herons around here this week. We saw no less than 6 of them at a nearby pond we visited the other day, and it sparked enough interest to read every word…
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Winged Steeds, Mockingbirds and British Chieftains: Read-Aloud Thursday
It’s been awhile since I participated in a Read-Aloud Thursday, but we’re partaking of our usual eclectic reading repast around here. I’ll start with picture books and move up through the ranks in…
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Math Read-Alouds
Carol wrote recently about String, Straight-Edge, and Shadow: The Story of Geometry and the idea of a story about a mathematical concept seemed like a great idea. We’re mostly book geeks around here,…