It’s time for our week in review!
You guys! I was on The Mighty this week! You can read the post right here.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming:
Here is everything wonderful from the week that was. I’d love to hear what you were up to this week. Please share in the comments!
My Little Poppies Week in Review 13
Here’s what the poppies have been up to:
Saturday
Sunday
The kids are recreating their favorite I Spy pages this morning.
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Monday
Tuesday
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Wednesday
Thursday
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The poppies are currently reading:
I love to share great books. Here is a bit of what we’ve been reading this week. I’d love to hear what is on your bookshelf!
Our Current Homeschool Read Alouds Include:
Dad is reading:
Mom is reading:
8-year-old is reading:
6-year-old is reading:
4-year-old is reading:
This is what the {Virtual} Family Book Club is reading:
Our book club is finishing up celebrating National Library Week and is getting ready for a month of William Joyce books. Which Joyce book is your favorite?
This week’s hot topics:
I love to share what I’ve been reading on both Facebook and Twitter. These were the articles that garnered the most discussions and shares this week.
24 Absolutely Horrendous Vintage Recipes ~ Sophie Gadd, BuzzFeed
Give Late Blooming Children the Time They Need ~ Jessica Lahey, NYT Motherlode
Never, in a Million Years, Did I Imagine Myself Homeschooling ~ Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley, GeekMom
Owning Up to Being a Home-Schooling Parent ~ Jennifer Kulynych, NYT Motherlode
Surviving As An Introverted Mother ~ Kristen Howerton, Quiet Revolution/ Huffington Post
… and WOW you guys liked this image and this image!
In case you missed it, here’s the new stuff from My Little Poppies:
Do you know what is sort of funny? My Huffington Post article was featured by Huffington Post on social media and my site was down. And then I wrote another one and, guess what? My site was down. And then I was featured on The Mighty and - you guessed it- my site was down.
Sigh.
So, you didn’t miss much over here at My Little Poppies because there was a lot of maintenance. That said, I did republish a couple of your favorites from the past, including these two:
Asynchronous Development and the Gifted Child
Her Homeschool Manifesto
And, did you know you can find me elsewhere? Here are some recent posts:
When Your Child’s “Failure to Thrive” Diagnosis Makes You Feel Like a Failure [The Mighty]
Practice Math Through Play [GeekMom]
5 Things You Should Never Say to an Unexpected Homeschooler [The Huffington Post]
When Your Child Fails to Thrive [The Huffington Post]
Now, it’s your turn. Tell me: What was the highlight of your week? What are you reading? Share here!
Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Raising Poppies, a community for parents of gifted and twice-exceptional children. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.
Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool and GeekMom. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, and Scary Mommy. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram
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Your book shelves must look very similar to ours!
We also love Holes and the Theodore Boone series.
Right now we’re enjoying book 2 of the Itch: Element Hunter series and we’re eagerly awaiting the arrival of Pseudonymous Bosch’s new book called Bad Luck. We loved Bad Magic. It was a very clever and loose adaptation of The Tempest. Great reading. We hold high hopes for Bad Luck. This series is best read after The Secret Series, which is lots of fun.
We’re at a tricky point right now. My daughter is 10 and is quickly outgrowing the children’s section, but she’s really too young to jump into some of the content in young adult books.
I love when you share what you are reading! We do have such similar readers in our homes.
Have you read Some of My Best Friends are Books? It helps with some of that content vs. reading level stuff. Also check out Common Sense Media. Not sure if they do books, but they are wonderful for movies and shows.
Yes! I recently finished ‘Some of my Best Friends are Books’. I use the lists in there, MENSA reading lists, online searches for specific topics, plus recommendations from my favourite blogs of course! :o)
Our piano teacher lent us a great book this week: Why Beethoven Threw the Stew. It’s written in a Horrible Histories kind of style, which we love. It gives an interesting recap of the lives and works of several famous composers.
That sounds like something we’d LOVE. Adding it to the top of our list, thank you!
Also: Our piano teacher is ALWAYS lending great books. This week it was Grimm’s Fairy Tales
I’m almost afraid to ask, fearing it might be the same one I have……. but who is your host?
A Small Orange? I was fine for the past couple years but I was down multiple times in March and then on and off since the 30th. I switched and then went down AGAIN. You just have to laugh!!