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How to Keep a Book Log for Your Little Reader

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This morning I realized that it has been six months since we had Leo assessed for giftedness. Six months ago we learned exactly how gifted he is, and also realized that homeschooling was quite likely the only type of schooling that could adequately meet his needs. After sharing the scores, the psychologist recommended that we start…

Story of the World: Pyramids on the mind

by Cait Curley 3 Comments

FTC Disclosure: This post contains Amazon Affiliate links.* This week, we spent a lot of time talking about Ancient Egypt. We are currently reading Story of the World and listening to it on audiobook and we have a plethora of Ancient Egypt books and encyclopedias. When my little poppies were busy building this week, they were…

Reading Under the Covers: Growing Readers

by Cait Curley 2 Comments

I love my little poppies to the moon and back, but I am also a huuuuuge fan of bedtime. By the end of the day, I am usually tuckered out and ready to veg on the couch with a good book…in silence. And then, in an hour or two, I head upstairs to my room for…

What is your favorite book??

by Cait Curley 5 Comments

FTC Disclosure: This post contains Amazon Affiliate links.* I’m wondering…. what is your favorite book? I’m a bibliophile. My mother always says that one of my very first words was “bookie” for book, and that I would follow her around the house, with book in hand, chanting, “Booooookie-bookie-bookie-bookie!“ I don’t recall learning how to read, but I know…

Little Poppies on Vacation!

by Cait Curley 9 Comments

This week we were homeschooling on vacation. The weather at the beginning of our vacation was perfection! We had LOTS of pool time. We’ve reached a new milestone where I can actually read poolside while they play. I don’t have to be in there the entire time. In the middle of our vacation there was one really…

Whatcha readin’ this weekend?

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Today Schizz told me I should “slow down with the books”… The pile of books I am reading. (Okay, there might be a few more in my car.) Schizz likes to read but he doesn’t consume them like I do. He doesn’t get that there is no slowing down when you’re a bookworm. Life’s too short!…

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