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Eight Middle Grade Novels Even Adults Will Love
I have developed a love for mid-grade novels in the last few years. Generally middle grade novels are geared towards ages 8-12. They are around 30,000-50,000 words and don’t have any profanity, graphic violence or sexuality. There are a ton of novels that fit into this category and today I wanted to highlight some that…
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Customized Composition Notebooks
A few weeks ago I bought a couple of new composition notebooks and decided to personalize them a bit. Raeca had a couple of primary composition notebooks and wanted to join me so I thought we’d video our process and share it here with you! The primary composition notebooks are nice because they have lines…
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Ten Most Popular Posts From 2016
This blog only started up seven months ago but I thought it would still be fun to share the most popular posts from the seven months of 2016. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me that this list is heavy on the book lists, eight out of ten of the most popular…
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Our Ten Favorite Picture Books of 2016
I have no idea on the exact numbers, but we definitely read a lot of good picture books in 2016. I’ve gone through the books we read in 2016 that were published in 2016 and came up with our top ten books from the year. Raeca says her favorites were Let Me Finish, The Snurtch…
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Simplifying Our Homeschool Schedule – Minimalist Homeschooling
In the beginning of December I started to realize our homeschool schedule was not working very well for us. I would plan our day and rarely would we get to it all. It wasn’t because I was planning a whole lot in the day, but every time I mentioned what we were going to do…
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Grade One Read Aloud Novels – Term One
Thanks to all who entered our 2016 Reader Survey! The winner of one of our favorite picture books is: Kenzie!!! Congratulations! I’ll be emailing you for your address and picture book choice this weekend! I wrote out a couple of different grade one book lists at the beginning of the school year, like grade one…