We are wrapping up our school year and my boys are all busy finishing up their reading.. though we'll read here and there on our summer vacation I don't require them to read everyday.
1. Iceberg by Clive Cussler- My oldest is really enjoying this series of books. In this book Dirk Pitt is pulled away from his vacation to go to the North Atlantic where a ship has been found floating inside a giant iceberg.
2. Firstborn by Tor Seidler-- Blue Boy has a son named Lamar that he wants to see take over the pack someday but Lamar is not living up to his father's expectations... a great story that shows it takes bravery and courage to just be ourselves.
3. Al Capone Does My Homework-- In this third book in the series Moose's apartment catches fire one night and many on the island think his sister Natalie started it. Now Moose and his friends must try and determine who started the fire and why.
4. Wings of Fire the Dark Secret by Tui Sutherland-- Both of my younger two boys read (or began reading) this book this month. As the 4th book in the series it introduced the island of the Nightwings.
5. Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret by Trudi Trueit-- Crus leaves his home in Hawaii to train at the Explorer Academy, a prestigious honor, but soon finds himself at the center of an evil plot. He must solve the puzzle of who is out to get him and why.
6. Brotherband Chronicles: The Outcasts by John Flanagan-- These outcasts might be smaller than the other boys but that doesn't mean they are weak. They go to battle at sea against the other bands in an ultimate race. My husband read this series a few years ago and suggested Alec give it a try. So far he seems to be enjoying it.
Fellow homeschooler here! Love your list of books. Some of my kiddos love to read, but some don't. Sometimes it is finding those "perfect" books! Thank you!
Do you remember the TGIF lineups on Friday nights? I can remember planning sleepovers and time with friends around TV Show lineups of our favorite shows... or else trying to set the VCR to record our favorite shows if we weren't going to be home. And through the years I had SO MANY favorites! Growing pains aired in 1985 which put me around age 8 and it stayed on the air until I was 15 or so; I'm pretty sure most people in my age group watched mostly for Kirk Cameron and all his antics. I still have a soft spot for family sit-coms! The Facts of Life aired when I was just 2 and stayed on the air until I was 11 so I'm sure the episodes I remember so fondly were either some of the later ones and then reruns shown later on when I was old enough to watch from the beginning. I think everyone would have loved an Edna Garret in their lives. Benson another sitcom that began airing when I was just 2 and was done by the time I was 9 (another one I must have watched mai...
I loved the challenge of this week's list for our 26 lists link up. I don't know about you but I really need to laugh more lately. It's such a great stress reliever. 1. Books-- I love a good funny book that makes me laugh out loud. I haven't read one in a while but if you have any recommendations I'm all ears. The last book I can remember making me laugh was the Un-Honeymooners. 2 The boys being silly. 3. Watching shows like America's Funniest Videos or Family Feud. 4. My husband. Most people don't realize it but he's actually pretty funny and often makes me laugh. 5. Whenever my sisters/ family get together and we get to reminiscing (particularly if my Aunt Elaine is around) we end up laughing so hard at all the old family stories that we are all in tears by the end of the night. It's fabulous. 6. Movies like Mom's Night Out, Christmas Vacation, and Grown Ups make me laugh out loud. 7. When my ...
I don't tend to keep a lot of crafting supplies on hand so when I saw this month's de-stash challenge I wasn't sure what I was going to make. I finally realized that with so many of my Christmas gifts being cash and gift cards this year that I needed to make up some fun paper crafting/ creative ways to gift them. I still want my nieces and nephews to have something to open so I pulled out my papers and stamps and made up some cute little money/gift card holders. They were much easier to make than I thought. The first one I worked on was to hold some oversized Nintendo gift cards. I made a standard sized card and folded down one corner of the card front. Then I ran my double sided tape along the bottom an 1/2 way up the side creating a cute little pocket. Finally I added some cute embellishments and ribbons. Voila! A simple and easy gift card holder for those larger sized gift cards. The bulk of the tweens and teens on my list j...
Alec really wanted to try making his own gingerbread house this year without using a premade kit. We talked about how we never really eat the house since they don't taste very good. Years ago we gave up on the frosting that comes in the kit and began making our own so we thought perhaps we should try making our our house too. Only problem is that no one in the house likes gingerbread. We talked about trying to make the house using a sugar cookie recipe. Alec was so excited at that idea since he just LOVES sugar cookies. He found a recipe online for a simple sugar cookie recipe and mixed up the dough. He rolled it out an cut it to the size of our cookie sheets-- we had read that it's easiest to cut the house pieces out after the dough has been baked and is still warm and soft because then you don't have to worry about any of the pieces losing their shape while baking. I had picked out a simple cookie cutter set on Amazon and as soon as the ...
Today I am linking up with some fellow bloggers for a Dollar Store craft challenge. I don't often participate in these challenges since I try to stay away from our local Dollar Stores; I find they can be quite dangerous for me! I knew this was the perfect time to find some inexpensive holiday decorations though and I just LOVE how my wreath turned out! I hope you stop by and see what the other hosts are sharing. Meet this month's co-hosts! Across the Blvd | Purple Hues & Me This Autoimmune Life | Our Unschooling Journey Domestic Deadline | Sew Crafty Crochet Stone Cottage Adventures | Sum of Their Stories | Two Chicks & a Mom I bought the candy cane wreath base and a few rolls of mesh (not knowing how many I'd need I bought waaay to many; I only ended up using one white roll and one red roll. Using some chenille stems I already had on hand I attached the mesh to the wreath base trying to alternate the whit...
What did they think of Explorer Academy? We have that one but no one has read it yet!
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DeleteFellow homeschooler here! Love your list of books. Some of my kiddos love to read, but some don't. Sometimes it is finding those "perfect" books! Thank you!
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