Phonics Fun

Dragon-tamer caught the reading bug early. After learning the alphabet with a little help from the Alphabats books, all I had to do really was read a lot to him, help him learn a few sight words with Ladybird Key Words, and by book 4a he was off into the brave new world of easy-readers. …

Pawn of Prophecy

The ME/cfs Book club challenged us to read a book we already read, so I just read this again after 20-ish years, and it's still good! I love David Eddings' style and the way he weaves all the strands together. But I'm surprised I didn't go on to read the rest of the series, as …

Meanwhile…

We have sick little people this morning (and I feel as though I might be going down with it too!), so any routine I might have managed usually has gone out of the window. We've moved downstairs after stripping the beds and cleaning up, but nobody has much energy for 'lessons' or any of the …

Picture Book Reading Challenge

I've just heard about this lovely challenge: to read 300 picture books to your children, in a year. Since we are starting in February, our allocation is reduced to 275. It's only '11 books per fortnight', so that seems fairly manageable. http://childledchaos.me.uk/2013/12/31/picture-book-reading-challenge-2014/ I used to have pages on Goodreads, Shelfari, and Library Thing (back when …

Salvationist Reading List

I stumbled on this article listing books that every Salvationist should read. Actually some of them perhaps every Christian should read. I thought I would share the list as I will be adding at least some of these titles to my long-term 'to read' list. http://www.newfrontierchronicle.org/top50books/

Read52 Week4: Army on Its Knees

Another quick read this week, as I'm so busy at the moment: "Army on Its Knees" by Janet Munn and Stephen Court. This isn't the best book I've ever read on prayer, by any means, but I do like the metaphor (unlike Napolean's Army which marched on its stomach, The Salvation Army 'marches' on its …

January Nature Notes

One of my favourite resources is a very old cloth-bound book, "Enid Blighton's Book of the Year". My revised edition is dated 1950 and is a classic that really ought to be reprinted. Enid Blighton fell out of favour, of course, and many of her stories would be considered inappropriate nowadays; but she was very knowledgeable …

Ancient Greeks Project

Take a look at this lovely Ancient Greeks project by Helen - brings back memories of doing arty-crafty history projects with my older two, and wondering if the younger two would enjoy it again. http://www.helenforhisglory.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/ancient-greeks-project.html?m=1

Read52 Week1

This week's book for my first official read of Read52, courtesy of a charity shop in Plymouth, is "The Kindness of Strangers" by Kate Adie. It is considerably thicker than it looks in he photo, and I worked out that would need to read just over two long chapters a day to finish it within …

Easy Like Sunday Morning

I just wanted to give you a snapshot of a perfect Sunday morning: DS#1, "Dragon-Tamer" is researching a maths problem on the internet beside me, DD, "Pony-rider" is sitting on my knee on the sofa, looking through books. DS#2 "Motor-biker" and DS#3 "Baba Zonee" are playing a pretend game on the floor with their wooden …