School Begins

We started Monday but ended up doing Meals on Wheels both Monday and Tuesday. It was such a great route that we were home by 10:45. In time for EG's nap and some math sheets. Oh boy, the kids were excited (sarcastic button.)

I know how hard it is to transition from vacation to education so I figured we would just take it slow. I have to admit, this time around I wasn't as excited to start back. I really was enjoying just kind of hanging out. Things were getting done around the house and we enjoyed going to the Jr. Museum and to lunch with friends and having play dates and making cookies. . . well you get the idea.

We are starting a new semester which means a bunch of new books to read. So, I thought today I would just list them. Nature Girl is at the point where she can read a lot of her own history, literature and science books. BUT, I can't bare not to read them too. So, I am not sure how that is going to work. Anyway, the following are their books from our curriculum Ambleside on Line.

Nature Girl's Books

For Bible:

Bible

How the Bible Came to Us

Polished Corner Stones for Girls

For Manners:

Polite Moments

For History:

An Island Story

This Country of Ours

Trial and Triumph

DaVinci

For Geography:

Marco Polo

For Natural History:

The Handbook of Nature Study

Secrets of the Woods

For Science:

Science Lab in a Supermarket

The Story of Inventions

Exploring Creation With Zoology 1

For Poetry:

William Blake

For Literature:

Parables from Nature

American Tall Tales

Tales from Shakespeare

The Heros

The Princess and the Goblin

Little Mama's Books

For Bible:

Bible

Polished Cornerstones for Girls

For History:

Trial and Triumph

An Island Story

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Viking Tales

For American History:

George Washington

For Geography:

Paddle to the Sea

For Natural History/Science:

Handbook of Nature Study

James Herriot's Treasury for Children

The Burgess Bird Book

For Poetry:

Now We Are Six/When We Were Very Young

For Literature:

The Aesop for Children

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

The Blue Fairy Book

Just So Stories

Parables from Nature

The following are just a few of the "free read" books that the websites suggests for nighttime reading: Peter Pan, St. George and the Dragon, Charlotte's Web, Little House in the Big Woods, Men of Iron, The Water Babies, Through the Looking Glass, Swallows and Amazons, The Saturdays and King of the Wind.

Books, books, books!!! I LOVE school . . .