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Look What I'm Getting!

March 11, 2009 by Amy Leave a Comment

The new, revised edition of The Well-Trained Mind will be coming my way after it comes out in May, thanks to my winning the grand prize in this contest.  Thanks, Cameesa!  (If you’re interested in the classical approach to education, here is a good place to start.) Please like & share:

Posted in: Adult Nonfiction, Bloggy Randomness, Education Tagged: Adult Nonfiction, Bookish Thoughts

Read Aloud Thursday

March 5, 2009 by Amy 3 Comments

Last week, I highlighted a wordless picture book for Read Aloud Thursday.  This week’s books include an almost wordless picture book.  Actually, that’s not true.  Hug by Jez Alborough contains twenty-nine words, and twenty-five of them are the word hug. Three year old Louise loved this book.  Bobo, the sweet little monkey in this story, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Picture Books Tagged: Art, Picture Books, Read Aloud Thursday, wordless

Author/Illustrator Spotlight::Michael Dahl

March 4, 2009 by Amy Leave a Comment

I am a nerd.  I admit it.  Now I am definitely more of an English nerd than any other kind, but at one time in my life I was a well-rounded nerd.  Ask anyone with whom I went to high school.  (See–I still can’t end a sentence with a preposition!)  I discovered the author Michael … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Juvenile Fiction, Picture Books, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Author/Illustrator Spotlight, Bookish Thoughts, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Picture Books, Read Aloud Thursday, Young Adult Fiction

Memory Monday–Colossians 3:1-17

March 2, 2009 by Amy Leave a Comment

It’s Monday again (yippee!), and since my first showing for Memory Monday last week seemed to help jumpstart my stalled memorization effort, I thought I’d try to make this a regular bloggy feature here at Hope Is the Word.  I’m determined to be finished with Colossians 3:1-17 this week because we began a new study … [Read more…]

Posted in: Bloggy Randomness, Education

Read Aloud Thursday

February 26, 2009 by Amy 2 Comments

Do you or your children like wordless picture books?  I’ll admit that I don’t usually “get” them.  Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading them with an adult (well, mostly) mind instead of a child-like mind.  One of our books this week was a wordless picture book, and it really delighted my girls, especially Lulu (age … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Picture Books Tagged: Picture Books, Read Aloud Thursday
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