Friday, January 25, 2008
We're Still Here
We're still here, we just aren't doing anything worth posting. Ha
We are just doing basic school. It is too cold to do much else.
We are reading a couple of fabulous books though!
God's People: Stories from the Old Testament by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Children's Book of Heroes by William J. Bennett
McCaughrean's writing is so vivid! G just hangs on her words.
And I love the message of the Heroes book. Before each story, Bennett states a heroic quality. Qualities I want G to learn. So far we have, Hero's use their brains and Hero's use Self Control.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Dangerous Book for Boys
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Triple 8 Challenge
Here are the Rules...
1. Challenge runs from January 1 through December 31, 2008.
2. Choose 8 categories of your own that you would like to read 8 books EACH in.
3. You will be allowed 8 overlaps, for a total of 56 unique book titles.
4. You may overlap these 56 titles with any other challenge.
5. You may change your list or your categories at any time.
So as I do not take time to read for myself I am going to join this challenge to help motivate me. I definitely used the 8 overlaps (noted with a *). Here is my list....
□ Little Britches- Ralph Moody
□ Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
□ The Lonesome Gods- Louis L’Amour
□ Laddie – Gene Stratton- Porter
□ Les Miserable- Victor Hugo
□ The Chosen- Chaim Potok
□ The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis
□ Uncle Tom’s Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Christian Fiction
□ True Light- Terri Blackstock *
□ The Parting- Beverly Lewis
□ Levi’s Will – W. Dale Cramer
□ Shadowed- Jerry Jenkins
□ Silenced- Jerry Jenkins
□ The Bark of the Bog Owl- Jonathan Rogers*
□ Summer Hill Secrets Vol 1- Beverly Lewis
□ Summer Hill Secrets Vol 2- Beverly Lewis
Children’s Classics
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□ The Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling
□ Winnie the Pooh- A.A. Milne
□ The Book of Virtues- William J. Bennett
□ Complete Fairy Tales- Brother Grimm
□ Fairy Tales- Hans Christian Anderson
□ The Children’s Book of Heroes- William J. Bennett
□ The Children’s Book of America- William J. Bennett
Collecting Dust on My Bookshelf
□ The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver*
□ The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath*
□ To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*
□ Eragon- Christopher Paolini
□ Eldest- Christopher Paolini
□ The Bears of
□ The Dante Club- Matthew
□ The Jane Austen Book Club- Karen Joy Fowler
More Dust
□ Where the Sidewalk Ends- Shel Silverstein
□ Falling Up- Shel Silverstein
□ Night – Elie Wiesel
□ The Bark of the Bog Owl- Jonathan Rogers*
□ The Complete Poetic Works of James Whitcome Riley
□ The Quiet American- Grahme Greene*
□ The Power and the Glory- Grahme Greene*
□ A Girl Named Zippy- Haven Kimmel
Narnia
□ The Magician's Nephew
□ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
□ The Horse and His Boy
□ Prince Caspian
□ The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"
□ The Silver Chair
□ The Last
□ The Narnia Trivia Book
Unread Books by Favorite Authors
□ Northanger Abby- Jane Austen
□ Persuasions- Jane Austen
□ Broker- John Grisham
□ Ya- Yas in Bloom- Rebecca Wells
□ The Quiet American- Grahme Greene*
□ The Power and the Glory- Grahme Greene*
□ True Light- Terri Blackstock*
□ Charlie & the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
1001 Books to Read Before You Die List
□ The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
□ The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver*
□ The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath*
□ To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*
□ The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
□ Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
□ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Playing Catch Up
School
Reading
- Bob Books box 1
- Study Dog
- Skip counting
- Adding 2
- Writing numbers past 100
- Seeing the Nutcracker
- Cha Cha Cha Chia
Life
- Family Get Togethers
- 4 Christmas
- 1 New Years
- Alvin & the Chipmunks Movie
G
Long Vowels
More adding
Formal Handwriting lessons
Me
Researching & Organizing resources for next year
Contemplating joining Triple 8 Challenge Mother Crone turned me onto