With the release of Disney’s new Alice in Wonderland movie it seemed very fitting for our book club to explore this classic story. Our journey began by reading the story of Alice in Wonderland . Since our book club began several months ago my children have started to understand how authors take the original story [...]
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The Jungle Book (Learning)
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Magic Kingdom, Prep & Learning
We’ve wrapped up our learning activities for our January book club selection of “The Jungle Book”. The kids’ reaction to our new book club format exceeded all of our expectations! Here are a few additional things we did and learned on our journey – We allowed each family to select a version of the book [...]
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The Jungle Book (Prep)
January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Magic Kingdom, Prep & Learning
Last fall I worked with a couple of other homeschool families to start a book club. The goals were simple – to introduce our children to classic literature and to incorporate a writing/public speaking element (with each book we would introduce a different writing activity for the children to complete and share with the group). [...]
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Books
A couple of months ago we were introduced to the world of Mr. Fox. While watching clips for upcoming movies we saw the trailer for the new movie based on the Roald Dahl book “Fantastic Mr. Fox.” We are fans of Roald Dahl’s works such as James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate [...]
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How I Became a Pirate
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Pirates
Yesterday we enjoyed a wonderful performance of “How I Became a Pirate” at the Orlando Reparatory Theatre. The show is a funny musical adventure based on the book of the same title written by Melinda Long. The main character, Jeremy Jacobs, is recruited by Captain Braid Beard and his crew. The pirates need help burying [...]
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Flat Stanley
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Books
Who doesn’t love Flat Stanley!? Every time I pack to go on a trip I think about how fortunate he is to be able to slide into envelope and head out on a new adventure. Apparently he’s ready to search for his next big adventure and he needs some help. According to a recent press [...]
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My name in …
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Books
My name in lights…books I guess that’s everyone’s big dream…to see their name up in lights. Well, since I’m such a fan of books I’ve realized my dream because this week I’ve seen my name included in two new books. These are two very different books, but both are books I’m very happy about. [...]
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Cloudy with a chance of….
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Books
One of our favorite children’s books has made its way to movie theatres. All summer my kids have been anxiously awaiting the release of “Cloudy With a Chance to Meatballs.” This fall we started a book club co-op with two other families. We decided to read books that we could then go and see. We [...]
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