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What We're Reading: Nov/Dec

Fun Picture Books:
  • In November
  • Autumn Harvest
  • Usborne Stories from Around the World by Heather Amery
  • The Wheedle and the Noodle
  • The Greedy Triangle
  • Wolves in the Walls
  • Lots of Thanksgiving books and Christmas books

Science - We've moved into a more unschooling approach for our science this year.  Whatever N or Z is interested in, we quickly head to the library and check out as much as we can about the particular subject.  These months, we've been interested in salmon, volcanoes/rocks, and mushrooms.
  • Salmon Forest
  • Salmon Creek
  • The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream
  • The Salmon by Sabrina Crewe
  • Life Cycle of a Salmon by Angela Royston
  • The Bizarre Life Cycle of a Salmon by Mark Harasymiw
  • What's It Like to be a Fish?
  • Our Earth Kit from the KCLS Library (11 books)
  • The Mushroom Hunt
  • Mushroom Life Cycle
  • Fungi by Steve Parker
  • Let's Go Rock-Collecting
  • Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth
  • Life on Fire (video)

History:
  • Sea Clocks
  • James Towne: Struggle for Survival
  • John Billington: Friend of Squanto by Clyde Robert Bulla
  • Lots of Thanksgiving books and Christmas books

Music Study:

  • Antonio Vivaldi by Olivier Baumont
  • Handel Who Knew What He Wants
  • Getting to Know... Handel by Mike Venezia

N's Independent Reading:
  • The Tenement Tree by Kate Seredy
  • The First Thanksgiving by Andrea P. Smith
  • The Journey of the Mayflower by Andrea P. Smith
  • A Day in the Life of Colonial Silversmith Paul Revere by Andrea P. Smith
  • Magic Tree House: Thanksgiving Thursday (he read this one to me for history)
  • Red Tag Comes Back by Fred Phleger (Salmon Story)
  • The Adventures of TinTin: The Black Island by Herge
  • Misc. Marvel comics
  • Magic Tree House #4-8
  • Cam Jansen books #1-4
  • Imagination Station books #1-3
What Momma's Reading
  • Seasons of a Mother's Heart by Sally Clarkson
  • When Helping Hurts
  • The Unschooling Unmanual
  • Persuasion
  • Mansfield Park
  • Northanger Abbey
  • Grace-Filled Marriage
  • Paris Architect
  • The School Revolution

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