Our Homeschool Week in Books

Another week of learning has flown by! Here are the books we read this past week:

For Fun 

- A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant 
- The Curvy Tree, a Tale from the Land of Stories by Chris Colfer 
- The Seeds of Friendship by Michael Foreman 
- Butterfly Park by Elly Mackay 
- The Magic of Mythical Creatures by Colleayn O. Mastin (ongoing)
- If You Lived Here: Houses of the World by Giles Laroche (ongoing)

Poetry ~ We are reading several poems each day as part of our morning routine to celebrate National Poetry Month

- National Geography Book of Nature Poetry 
For Science

- Usborne Complete Book of the Human Body (ongoing)

For History

- Great Expectations by Dickens, adapted by Mary Sebag-Montefiore (Usborne)
- The Phantom of the Opera, adapted by Kate Knighton
- You Wouldn't Want to Sail on an Irish Famine Ship by Jim Pipe


Our Current Read Aloud for Brave Writer Arrow (Language Arts program) 

- Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata