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Kindergarten

Year Three Day One: Making Something Sweet

August 8, 2011 by Amy 7 Comments

Today was the first day of our third official year of homeschooling.  When I planned for today, I decided to do something rather uncharacteristic of me:  I planned to make today “fluffy”–somewhat unstructured and, dare I say it?–fun.  Part of this came from my near burn-out at the end of last year.  I had so … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Kid-Speak Tagged: 2nd grade, Kindergarten, Louise, Philosophy and Methods

Kids’ Picks & Miscellany

June 15, 2010 by Amy 7 Comments

Hold onto your hats, folks–this is going to be a jumbled up, miscellaneous, here-and-there post. 🙂  (What, you say?  What’s unusual about that?  I hear you.) It will start out and end up as a Kids’ Picks post, though. 🙂 Regular readers here at Hope Is the Word might remember that a few months ago, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Bloggy Randomness, Caught Reading, Education, Juvenile Fiction, Kid-Speak, Kids' Picks, Kindergarten, Picture Books, Preschool Tagged: Caught Reading, Juvenile Fiction, Kindergarten, Louise, Lulu, Picture Books, Preschool, Reading/Phonics, The DLM

Read Aloud Thursday–Bible Story Edition

June 10, 2010 by Amy 8 Comments

I’ve had this post chasing around my brain for a while–I wanted to share what we’ve used for most of Lulu’s kindergarten year for our devotion and Bible time. Given the week we’ve had, I thought today would be a good day to share this as a Read Aloud Thursday post since a nice little … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Kindergarten, Picture Books Tagged: Audiobooks, In Step with the Spirit, Juvenile Nonfiction, Kindergarten, Picture Books, Read Aloud Thursday

Read Aloud Thursday

May 27, 2010 by Amy 8 Comments

I don’t know how many of you were expecting Read Aloud Thursday today due to what I’m expecting, but as I’m writing this midmorning on Wednesday, nothing’s happening.  Since I have to fill my time with something (and honestly, I’m getting pretty antsy), what better way to fill a few minutes than to think about … [Read more…]

Posted in: Bloggy Randomness, Education, Kindergarten, Picture Books, Science Tagged: Kindergarten, Math, measurement, Picture Books, Read Aloud Thursday, Reading/Phonics, Science

Kindergarten Retrospective

May 21, 2010 by Amy 11 Comments

   I’ve been meaning to do write up this post for a while now because I have stamped a big “DONE” on kindergarten here at the House of Hope.  We’ve finished up our required number of days, and I am to the point in this pregnancy that I need some time to just relax and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Education, Homekeeping, Kindergarten, Science Tagged: Arts and crafts, Field Trips, Five in a Row, Kindergarten, Math, Organization and Scheduling, Philosophy and Methods, Reading/Phonics, Science
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer


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