A Fly On My Homeschool Wall

I'm forever looking for engaging, quality reading material for my 5-year-old Mister Man, who is an advanced reader for his age.  Though he can read beyond his years, his social/emotional self is still only 5, and he needs what he reads to nurture him at that level. Hooray for The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls series from Worthy Kids/Ideals !   We received the first two books in the series:  The Beginning (Book #1) and Race to the Ark (Book #2) .  Each book is about 100 pages long (maybe just a hair over) with occasional black and white illustrations.  Mister Man read each book in just over an hour. He devoured them, coming out of his reading trance to give the rest of the family play-by-play updates about the action and adventure that fed his little-boy heart. I like that his heart and mind are filled with Bible stories and Bible characters as heroes, and the kids who star in the stories are nice kids. Mister Man says about The Secret of the Hidden...

I'm tired of coming up with titles . . . and I'm tired of not knowing which post to look at when I need to go back and find information about our schooling. So, until I'm bored or inspired, the Monday date of the week will do. :) Monday A much better day than the previous two Mondays. I no longer think I must change our whole schedule in order to survive. Playing in the rain--and shaking the mulberry tree to make it rain harder! It was a little rough around the edges because of the homeschool campout over the weekend and because it was a little bit drizzly, but all of the kids managed their emotions and impulses enough for us to read and imagine and talk a bit together. Our snack--all stacked up.  Gf bread, df "butter" and sliced salami.  Rose Red thought it was for just me when she saw me stacking it up!  But it was just to make it easier to carry downstairs to the picnic table. The littles and I studied our big tree for our sit spot time.  ...

It was fun to introduce Imagine . . . The Great Flood by Matt Koceich to my kids.  It's the first in a series of Biblical time-travel adventure books targeting kids ages 8-12 available from Barbour Publishing . It arrived in the mail the very day our annual Cousins' Camp ended.  It had been a wonderful 5 days, but with high adventure activities every day, long days, and the let down of saying goodbye to beloved cousins, everyone was both exhausted and sad. I handed it to Nature Angel (10 years old, average reader). "Here.  Climb in bed and see what you think of this.  You can nap if you prefer," I said to her. She took it, and I ran off to my dentist appointment. I got home hours later (ugh!), and the first words Nature Angel said to me were, "I read the whole thing just today!  It is great!  It is so good !!!!!!" Later that day Mister Man (5 years old, advanced reader) was sent to his room for teasing, and I, knowing he needed some alone ti...