Classics, Nonfiction, and Children's Literature
Happy Pi Day to You! All About Measuring Circles (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library) by Bonnie Worth, illustrated by Aristides Ruiz and Joe Mathieu. Happy Pi Day to You features The Cat and the Hat who helps introduce circles and pi to a few children using rhymes (which follow the ABAB pattern). A few of the rhymes are forced,
A Girl Named Rosa: The True Story of Rosa Parks by Denise Lewis Patrick (Scholastic, January 2018). I like this book because Rosa Parks was independent, and since at that time people said that blacks shouldn’t be as good as whites. They said that they couldn’t go to the same schools. They couldn’t sit in
What is Poetry? by Trudi Strain Truit (Lerner Publishing, September 2014) is an attractive nonfiction book for young readers or middle grade readers. It teaches common types of figurative language and common formats of poetry (free verse, rhyming, and so forth). Even better, it provides sample poems to demonstrate the concepts. It has large text for
We have been “officially” doing unofficial kindergarten at home for a little over a month now. I’ve been teaching Raisin at home for much longer, of course, but I had to call it official at some point.1 I decided we would learn about American History this year, and I feel it’s definitely time to report
Rain Forests by Nancy Smiler Levinson, illustrated by Diane Dawn Hearn (Holiday House, 2008), is an early reader just perfect for my young son (age 4). There were tropical animals illustrated and labeled on each page, and the book covered rainforests around the world. Yet, there was not too much text on each page, and
My son has been quite interested in maps and geography, so (even with the arrival of my newborn five weeks ago) we began a project of studying the continents, starting with Antarctica. Learning about the continent with a four-year-old prompted me to learn more myself: a few months ago, I posted about a Sally Walker
Even though my second child was born in February, since January, my four-year-old and I have done a fair amount of “school at home,” which my son regularly asks for because he simply loves to learn. I hope that his interest continues because I’ve enjoyed learning with him. I discovered a fantastic series by Lerner
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