One thing I love to do for our school year planning is create a list of books that I think will be good for my kids for that school year. This year my daughter is going into grade five! Where did the time go? This list of books includes some books she wants to read on…
With a new school year approaching I wanted to compile a list of books for family read alouds. For us the term family read aloud mostly means family audiobooks since we still mostly just listen to a book together as a family at meal times. But, I think some of the books on my list for this…
Three years ago I created a list of 40 classic read aloud novels for kids. I did a lot of research before making that list and compiled what I thought were 40 great books. The only thing was, I hadn’t read all of the books myself. For a number of them I was going off…
I recently shared a book list that included 18 great chapter books for boys and today I wanted to come and share some good chapter books for girls! Honestly, I think both genders would like all the books on both lists but I mostly tried to keep the books on the girls list to have…
I recently shared my daughter’s favorite chapter books from her year in grade four and today I wanted to share my son’s favorite chapter books from his year in grade one! Grade one is kind of a tricky year for chapter books. Kids are learning to read but generally not ready to read chapter books…
Back in my short lived school teaching career I always thought grade four was the best age. Kids are still young enough where they liked school but old enough they caught on to sarcasm. It was like the sweet spot as far as ages go. Well, now my oldest is officially done grade four and…