Adventures in Family

This week we rowed The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills. We used lapbook components from Aussie Pumpkin Patch , we only used a few pages of the lap...

This week was our first official week of school back after our Christmas break and also our first week of the school year getting back to ...

This week we rowed A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno It's a sweet story about a little girl who damages her wooden clogs and decide...

Last week we rowed Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say. It is about the author's grandfather's journey from his homeland in Japan...

Two weeks ago we rowed The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen. Buzz and Boo both enjoyed this story a lot. We read a lot, we'...

Two weeks ago we rowed How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman. Buzz, especially, really enjoyed this  book. They c...

This week's FIAR title was Madeline. It is one of Boo's all-time favorite stories, she can recite most of it by heart. Here's wh...

We are big Robert McCloskey fans around here. One Morning in Maine is one of Boo's all-time favorite stories, and who doesn't love B...

This year we're using Five in a Row (FIAR) as our main curriculum. I first came across this program when we started researching homesch...