We visited one of my favorite places on earth mid-week: the Huntsville Botanical Garden. The garden was just waking up, but there was quite a lot of color already to be seen, and much of it came from those harbingers of spring, the daffodils. I couldn’t help but be reminded of this poem when I … [Read more…]
I picked up In the Sea by David Elliott at the library on a whim, and because the preschool class at our homeschool co-op had recently had an opportunity to get up-close-and-personal with a turtle, I took it to read to them. What I failed to do is pre-read it before I took it, so I … [Read more…]
Irene Latham is an Alabama author who does our state proud. (I was so tickled to get to meet her a few summers ago!) She wrote a terrific middle grade historical fiction novel, Leaving Gee’s Bend, as well as another work of middle grade fiction, Don’t Feed the Boy, which is on one of my … [Read more…]
I snapped a few “Caught Reading” pictures of Benny last night and decided I’d share the little gem of a book he was looking at for today’s Poetry Friday offering. That’s sort of backwards to how it all came about, though, really: I took this little book, which I guess we’ve had since Lulu … [Read more…]
For our first six weeks school term (or more), we are memorizing “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. So far as I know, his works have passed into the public domain, so I’ll share it here in its entirety: Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the … [Read more…]
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