Category: reading and writing

  • Kangaroo booklist

    Kangaroo booklist

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    This Kangaroo booklist came about because I was looking at an old post and thought, I never actually wrote down my list I used when we did our kangaroo unit. At some point I might expand this into a whole unit, rather than the booklist it is, and tell everyone all we did when we…

  • Oliver Twist book and a movie

    Oliver Twist book and a movie

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    I don’t like Charles Dickens. My kids know this, but I also recognize his books are formative to much of modern culture, we reference ideas and images in it in our conversation. So, I decided to grit my teeth and assign an Oliver Twist book club to my kids for our book and a movie…

  • Penguin booklist

    Penguin booklist

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    There is something cute and adorable about penguins. That may be why so many different schools have a penguin unit for kindergarten and preschool. When we used My Father’s World Kindergarten I put together a penguin booklist, and I realized I never shared it, which gives me a great excuse to add to my giant…

  • Illinois Unit

    Illinois Unit

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    Any studies of Illinois will be dominated by Chicago, but I wanted it to go beyond the famous city in Illinois, so I did a bit of research and found some fun facts and people to study as we looked at the state. It was an interesting geography lesson, and our Illinois Unit was a…

  • 3rd Grade Books Made Into Movies

    3rd Grade Books Made Into Movies

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    As I was getting read to go to the library and pick up the books to take pictures of for today’s post, I was surprised to learn how few 3rd-grade books made into movies there are. I barely have 10 books. Right now. If I’ve learned anything it is that studios are constantly adapting books…