God Bless America!!
A red, white and blue tea!! Many blessings to you and yours on this Patriotic Day!!
God Bless America, God Bless Our Troops, and Peace on Earth!
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Here's where you'll find a little bit of everything from this home educating Catholic wife and mother of 4 special little sweeties! We love our life of learning and living our faith everyday and hope you'll also find a bit of Sweetness & Light while you're here, thanks for visiting!
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- Violet, age 13
- Matthias, age 10
- Seamus, age 7
- Sean-Paul, age 4
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Lunchtime Reading
4 x 10 Reading 2009
Noel Perrin: A Reader's Delight
Read February 09E. M. Forster: A Room With a View
audio version in progress June '09Maud Hart Lovelace: Betsy and the Great World (Betsy-Tacy)
Read April '09Meg Meeker: Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons
Read May 09Nadia May Elizabeth Von Arnim: Enchanted April
Finished Feb '09Wendelin Van Draanen: Flipped
Reviewed at Deliciously Clean Reads blog.Anna Botsford Comstock: Handbook of Nature Study
(reading through the year)Hillaire Belloc: History Of England Vol 2
in progress June '09Edward Eager: Knight's Castle
Read january 09Barbara Bell: Minimus Pupil's Book: Starting out in Latin
Read Jan-Feb 09Kit Bakke: Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds
Read March 09Flannery O'Connor: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
(in progress)Peggy Noonan: Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
Read February 09Joseph Bharat Cornell: Sharing Nature With Children (20th Anniversary Edition, Revised and Expanded)
Read January 09Hendrik Willem Van Loon: Story of Mankind
In progress April '09Amanda Blake Soule: The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
Read January 09Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
Read June 09Elizabeth Spires: The Mouse of Amherst
Read January 09, so cute!The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918
LOVE this!! Reading from this weekly.Clyde Robert Bulla: The Sword in the Tree (Trophy Chapter Book)
Read February 09Mary Griffith: The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
Read January 09Rachel Gathercole: The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling
Read June '09David R. Foster: Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape
Read February 09- Maud Hart Lovelace: Winona's Pony Cart (Deep Valley Books)
Read January 09
Picture Books for Nature Study
Fun With Grammar
Ruth Heller: Kites Sail High (Ruth Heller World of Language)
Such great illustrations, a fun way to learn about verbs!Patricia Thomas: Red Sled
Actually a Poetry book!Ruth Heller: Merry-Go-Round: A Book About Nouns (World of Language)
History
H. E. Marshall: Our Island Story
(in progress)Robert T. Reilly: Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal
Read Aloud '08Elizabeth Borton De Trevino: Nacar: The White Deer (Living History Library)
Violet read Nov '08Elizabeth Janet Gray: Adam of the Road
Violet read Oct '08Ethel C. Brill: Madeleine Takes Command (Living History Library, Audio CD's)
All listened Feb-Mar '09Elizabeth Yates: With Pipe, Paddle and Song: A Story of the French-Canadian Voyageurs
Read March 09- Marguerite Henry: ROBERT FULTON BOY CRAFTSMAN
Matthias read Oct '08 Elizabeth George Speare: The Sign of the Beaver
Matthias listened Nov '08Jean Lee Latham: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Matthias read Dec 08Leonard Wibberley: John Treegate's Musket (Living History Library)
Violet (in progress)Caroline Dale Snedeker: Downright Dencey (Young Adult Library)
John D. Fitzgerald: Brave Buffalo Fighter (Young Adult Bookshelf Ser)
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Violet read Sept. 08Elizabeth George-Speare: The Bronze Bow
Violet read Nov 08Kate Seredy: The Good Master
Violet read Dec 08Kate Seredy: The Singing Tree
Violet reading Dec 08Karen Schwabach: The Hope Chest
Violet Read Feb '09Sid Fleischman: By the Great Horn Spoon!
Violet Read March '09Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Sherwood Ring
Violet Read April '09Patricia Reilly Giff: Nory Ryan's Song
Violet Read April '09Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils
Violet read April '09Scott O'Dell: Sing Down the Moon
Violet read April '09Elizabeth Foreman Lewis: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Violet Read April '09El Konigsburg: A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (A Yearling Book)
Violet Read May '09
Poetry
Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
Dec-Jan Poet 08-09Glenn Harrington: Poetry for Young People: William Butler Yeats
January Poet 09Poetry for Young People: William Shakespeare (Poetry For Young People)
Also requested regularly, you can just never have enough Shakespeare!Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson (Poetry For Young People)
Read repeatedly and requested most often :)Paul Fleischman: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
This is beautiful, recommended by Lissa at Bonny Glen!Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
Laura M. Berquist: The Harp and Laurel Wreath, Poetry and Dictation For The Classical Curriculum
Christina Georgina Rossetti: Sing Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
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Barbara Curtis: Mommy, Teach Me to Read!: A Complete and Easy-to-Use Home Reading Program
Barbara Curtis: Mommy, Teach Me!: Preparing Your Preschool Child for a Lifetime of Learning
Paula Polk Lillard: Montessori From the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to age Three
Paula Polk Lillard: Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn
Lesley Britton: Montessori Play And Learn : A Parent's Guide to Purposeful Play from Two to Six
Jessie Wise: The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
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- John A. Hardon, S. J.: Treasury of Catholic Wisdom
Mary Reed Newland: The Year & Our Children: Catholic Family Celebrations for Every Season
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Karen Edmisten: The Rosary: Keeping Company with Jesus and Mary
The Big Book of Catholic Customs and Traditions for Children's Faith Formation
Danielle Bean: My Cup of Tea
So enjoyable and funny!Liguori Publications: Catechism of the Catholic Church/English
Holly Pierlot: A Mother's Rule of Life
Favorite Nature Study Links
- Bird Watcher's Digest
- Journey North: Monarch Butterfly Migration
- MacBeth's Opinion
- Mouse Trails
- National Wildlife Federation
- Project FeederWatch
This is FUN to do and is great nature study! - Wild Monthly
Yes, God bless America! Could there be a better country? No ma'am, there could not.
Happy 4th of July, chere Mere! :)
Posted by: Margaret in Minnesota | July 04, 2008 at 01:54 PM
This is so precious. God bless your holiday!
Posted by: molly | July 04, 2008 at 05:20 PM
Awesome Teatime!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 05, 2008 at 08:02 AM
what a sweet little tea ceremony.
happy independence day.
Posted by: jessica | July 06, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Yes, God bless America! Hope you had a great 4th of July.
Posted by: KC | July 06, 2008 at 07:50 PM