This is one of Belle’s early readers that she just loves. It’s written for the pre-school and kindergarten folk who are reading. The illustrations are fun and bright and the story line is fun too! This book is a little easy for Belle, so we’ve been using it to practice dramatic reading. […]

Well, we are finally finished with our Ancient Greece study…and I’m ecstatic! Now, we’re gearing up to study Ancient Rome. Hopefully, it will go better than Ancient Greece.
One of the books I read aloud was Temple on a Hill by Anne Rockwell. It’s the story behind the building of the Parthenon. […]

Have I told you all how much I love, love, love Explode the Code??  Well, I do and it’s because Belle is doing so well with the books.  Seriously, she is like a reading maniac right now and that is fantastic!!  I’m just thrilled!!
Jake has been reviewing fractions these past couple of days.  He doesn’t […]

I just posted a review of Roald Dahl’s The BFG over at the Teen Lit Review blog and wanted to share the link here.  If you’ve not visited the Teen Lit Review blog, you need to do so!  It’s a fairly new blog where several of us review pre-teen, teen and young adult books.  We […]

Today we read a neat book titled Archimedes Takes a Bath by Joan M. Lexau.
We’ve heard the stories about Archimedes, but this one had a different story line than the others.  In this book, a young slave boy, Xanthias, was given the job of making Archimedes eat and bathe.  Apparently, Archimedes was not in favor […]