January 22, 2008
About Me
Family, books, food, classical home education, books, journeys, music, books, thoughts, movies, and books. Davy is in second grade; Daniel, third grade; and Laura, fifth grade
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- Science with Tom Edison
- Something different (a list of poetry books and other poetic resources)
- How I got my kids to like poetry and broccoli
- Poetry sings
- Adding even more poetry to your life, just in time for National Poetry Month
- Tossing textbooks
- Getting back to Gombrich (a review of A Little History of the World by Ernst Gombrich)
- Children's history book reviews
- Beefing Up SOTW3: Adding more Canadian history
- Their Island Story (on the importance of history as story, and the new edition of Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall)
- (To twaddle or not to twaddle: choosing books based on) Financial considerations and literary merit
- Art history and appreciation books we like
- ...So you're thinking about home schooling
- Celebrating International Literacy Day (Quotes)
- Celebrating International Literacy Day (Lists & Links)
- Ambleside Online's Helping Hand Emergency Learning Plan
- You can't say that in Latin!
- Library Elf
- Singing Science; free songs to download
- Geekdad, from Wired
- Secular Science
- The Stingy Scholar
- Chris Barton's American history picture book reading lists for kids, Prehistory-the Present
- Museum of Online Museums
- The Country Fair homeschool carnival gentle alternative
- Sur La Lune Fairy Tale Pages/An online portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies
- The Edge of the Forest/online children's literature monthly
- Charles Darwin Has a Posse: awareness stickers, bookmarks, and more
- SimplyCharlotteMason.com
- The Vinyl Cafe
- Jim Weiss's storytelling CDs
- Naxos Audiobooks
- The BBC's history pages
- Mike Ford's Canadian history songs
- Handy Latin phrases
- Chapters-Indigo Books
- Free weekly sampler from Dover Books
- Nigella Lawson's recipes and more
- Loganberry Books' Stump the Bookseller
- Bardolatry: Shakespeare on Film
- "The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook" by Rebecca Rupp
- Growing with Grammar
- Avko Sequential Spelling
- "A Little History of the World" by E.H. Gombrich
- "A History of US" by Joy Hakim
- "The Story of Art" by E.H. Gombrich
- "Story of the World" (SOTW) series by Susan Wise Bauer
- Write with the Best
- Donna Ward's Canadian History & Geography work/activity books
- Singapore Math
- K'NEX Construction Toys for science
- "Family Matters" by David Guterson
- "Dumbing Us Down" by John Taylor Gatto
- "Endangered Minds" by Jane M. Healy
- "Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers" by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate
- "Left Back" by Diane Ravitch
- "Dumbing Down Our Kids" by Charles J. Sykes
- "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics" by Liping Ma
- "The Elements of Style" by Strunk & White
- "The Hinges of History" series by Thomas Cahill ("How the Irish Saved Civilization"; "The Gifts of the Jews"; "Desire of the Everlasting Hills"; "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter", and "Mysteries of the Middle Ages")
- Library Elf
- Northwest Passages (online Canadian literature bookseller)
- Canadian literature links, from Northwest Passage bookseller
- Classical Home Education
- Pandia Press
- Chinaberry Books
- Tanglewood Education
- Beautiful Feet Books
- Sonlight Curriculum
- Tree of Life Book Service
- Academic Distribution Services, British Columbia, Canada
- A+ Books, Ontario, Canada
- Nikki's Book Nook, Calgary
- Rainbow Resource
- Sonlight Books in WTM order
- Horn Book Magazine's annotated readings lists for children
- Paula's Archives
- Valerie's Living Books (at the far left, scroll down to "The Main Attraction" and click)
- Library Elf
- "Farmer Boy" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, with illustrations by Garth Williams; the original, unabridged version
- "Paddle-to-the-Sea" by Holling Clancy Holling
- "The Doll People" by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, illustrated by Brian Selznick
- "Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella" by Paul Fleischman, illustrated by Julie Paschkis
- "The Yellow House" by Blake Morrison, illustrated by Helen Craig
- "Persuasion" by Jane Austen
- "Exit Music" by Ian Rankin
- "Waiting for the Morning Train" by Bruce Catton
- "The Way Things Work" two-disc DVD set by David Macaulay
- "Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts, 1920s-1960s
- Alexander's Maitresse
- Atypical Homeschool
- Atypical Life
- bore me to tears
- By Sun and Candlelight
- Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
- The Crib Chick
- Dare to Know
- Day by Day Homeschooling
- Derfwad Manor
- Dewey's Treehouse
- Doc's Sunrise Rants
- Drat These Greeks!
- Earthwise Ways Homeschool
- everywakinghour
- Free Range Academy
- Full Circle
- Greenridge Chronicles
- Here in the Bonny Glen
- Bonny Glen Up Close
- HMS Indefatigable
- The Homeschool Cafe
- Home Chemistry
- Homeschool Kid Lit
- Homeschool Math Blog
- Homeschooling and Libraries
- Home's Cool!
- Home Works
- In a Spacious Place
- Ipsa Dixit
- Karen Edmisten
- Kitchen-Table Learners
- Laura (and Calvin and Hobbes) in China
- Let's play math!
- lightingthefires
- The Lilting House archives
- Mother Crone's Homeschool
- Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy
- My Bountiful Life...
- Notes from the Country
- Nurtured by Love
- One-Sixteenth
- Out of Lascaux
- Painted Rainbows and Chamomile Tea
- Paradise Found
- Poppins Classical Academy
- The Radical Homeschool Blog
- Ramblings, Rants & Remedies
- Real Learning
- The RedMolly Picayune-Democrat
- Redneck Mother
- Reluctant Memsahib
- Romans Go Home!
- Road SCHOLA
- Schola
- Semicolon
- Shakin' Down the Sugar... A Sweeten Education
- Simple Living
- A Small Corner of Nowhere
- Soliloquy
- Studeo
- Three Plus Two
- Tricotomania
- Twice Bloomed Wisteria
- wisteria's Homeschool Caddy
- You're Not Lost, You're Here
- Boston 1775
- The Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys
- Ceely's Modern Usage
- The Dangerous and Daring Blog for Boys and Girls
- Geekdad , from Wired
- open history...
- Sippican Cottage
- The Stingy Scholar
- Tall, Dark, and Mysterious
- Adventures in Daily Living
- AmoxCalli/Reviewing the Classics of Kidlit
- Anneographies
- AustenBlog, for Janeites
- Bartography
- Big A little a
- Blue Rose Girls
- BookLust
- Book Moot
- Book World
- Box of Books
- A Chair, A Fireplace and A Tea Cozy
- Chicken Spaghetti
- Classical Bookworm
- Deliciously Clean Reads
- the excelsior file
- A Fuse #8 Production
- GottaBook
- Grumpy Old Bookman
- Jennifer Armstrong Publicity Etc
- Jennifer Armstrong's Just for Home Schoolers
- Jen Robinson's Book Page
- Kate's Book Blog
- Librarian's Most Wanted
- The Magic of Books
- The Miss Rumphius Effect
- Nonfiction Matters
- Oz and Ends
- Poetry for Children
- Read Roger
- Scholar's Blog
- Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone
- Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
- So Many Books
- What Adrienne Thinks About That
- wordswimmer
- Your Fairy Bookmother
- F16’s Don’t Kill People, 500 Lb. Bombs Kill People
- Left of the Dial
- Rick Mercer's Blog
- Secrètes de Paris
- 101 Cookbooks
- Baking Bites
- Baking for Britain
- bakingsheet
- Cake Journal
- Chocolate & Zucchini
- David Lebovitz
- The Domestic Goddess
- Eat the Blog
- The Kitchen Chick
- My Adventures in the Breadbox
- Pocket Farm
- Real Baking with Rose Levy Beranbaum
- Shoestring Gourmande
- A Spoonful of Sugar
- Struggle in a Bungalow Kitchen
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