Category: reading and writing

  • Botany Unit

    Botany Unit

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    We never officially studied botany in our science lessons. We just ran into the occasional botany lesson, and I think we may have had a short botany unit when we had a year of zoology. Mainly because I remember having a lesson about different leaf types. Okay, but either way, I was realizing I had…

  • Germany Unit

    Germany Unit

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    We studied Germany a couple of different times in our geography lessons. We studied it first when the kids were little as part of a Christmas Around the World Unit. Then we made a delicious meal, and finally we did a mad dash through Europe in high school. Now in 2025, years after we completed…

  • Pirates booklist

    Pirates booklist

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    Arrr! We all love pirates, or we like the theory of pirates, but if we think about it too much, we start to realize pirates are not the fun romanticized idea, so let’s just go with ARRR! I was looking up some books on something else when I saw a book I vaguely remembered reading…

  • Best Christmas Pageant Ever book and a movie night

    Best Christmas Pageant Ever book and a movie night

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    If you haven’t read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, then you need to right now.  You will not regret it. As soon as I found out it was a book and a movie, I had to do this. HAD TO.  I listed it as one of my favorites on my Christmas books post last year.…

  • Laura Numeroff writing lesson

    Laura Numeroff writing lesson

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    As a teacher, I loved working with Laura Numeroff’s books. The kids loved listening to her books and the antics of the different animals. In my second year of teaching I got a stuffed animal of her Mouse from the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books. Now that I have my own kids…