Summer Review Medley: George’s Secret Key, Little Quack, and the Flopsy Bunnies

What we’re reading this week: George’s Secret Key to the Universe, Little Quack, and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.

Summer Review Medley: The Color Kittens, Blue Moo & The Velveteen Rabbit

School’s out but we haven’t stopped reading. This week, The Five-Year-Old and I are reading (and listening to) The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, Blue Moo by Sandra Boynton, and The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.

Book Review: Big Workbook Kindergarten

Unlike I’m Going to Write! Upper Case Letters, which is geared to teaching a single skill and can use a single set of instructions all the way through, Big Workbook: Kindergarten strives to teach a wider set of concepts and contains a variety of worksheet formats.

Book Review: I’m Going to Write! Upper Case Letters

School may be out, but that doesn’t mean I want The Five-Year-Old to lose ground when it comes to her new-found writing and reading skills. That where Harriet Ziefert’s I’m Going to Write! Upper Case Letters comes in.

Once upon a time, just before bed…

In which The Five-Year-Old and I have a conversation about the right age to begin reading Jane Austen.

Your Moment of Reading

This week, Daddyo read The Five-Year-Old John D. Fitzgerald’s The Great Brain.

In which The Five-Year-Old learns all threats are not created equal

The Five-Year-Old, on being denied a third episode of Wild Kratts: “Mommyo, if you don’t let me have any more tv today, I’ll read thirty books…

Book Review: The Borrowers

This week, my daughter reads The Borrowers by Mary Norton.

Book Review: Who Swallowed Harold?

We picked up Susan Pearson’s Who Swallowed Harold on a whim. The Five-Year-Old’s whim to be precise. She thought the picture on the front cover looked funny. I thought that was as good a reason as any. What a happy surprise this book was!