Tag: reading

Caitlyn, homeschooling

Cover Girl

 

Sometime last year I received an email from Capstone Press inquiring about a photograph on my site. I’d completely forgotten about the whole exchange. Last week, a box appeared on our porch. You can’t tell that’s my girl standing in for the actual Sarah Gillespie, but there she is, wearing the “olden times” Halloween outfit I made 3 years ago. Can I gloat just a little? The book is part of a new First-Person Histories series that uses diaries of real kids (approximately ages 10 to 16 or so) to make American history more than endless names and dates. In …

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A new bookshelf

 

I’ve started a new shelf over at GoodReads called “Caitlyn’s Chapter Books” where I’m attempting to list all the longer books I’ve read to Caitlyn. I’m mostly recreating the list at the moment, since I should have started this years ago (it’s not like I’ve only been reading long books to her recently). Listing all the picture books would probably be an interesting exercise, but that seems a little daunting – we read a lot of picture books. I’m adding these books to my GoodReads profile partly because I am reading them and partly to keep a list to share …

Caitlyn
 

Caitlyn’s school issues monthly “20/20 Reading Challenges”, encouraging the kids to find someone to read to them for 20 minutes for 20 days out of every month. After the post-school snack, Caitlyn and I sit down and she reads one book to me and I read two or three to her. The other day, she read I am Invited to a Party! by Mo Willems to me and I read Three Little Kittens, One Smart Cookie (which I think is cute but she thinks is boring), and The Adventure to her. Later, while I was attempting to find a quiet …