R chose our very sad little orange tree. My sister and bil gave us this tree as a house warming gift. Citrus trees don't like to be transplanted and this poor guy was transplanted a couple of times before finding it's final resting place (and I'm afraid it truly is a "resting" place). It only gets watered from our sprinklers, which isn't nearly enough. You'll also notice the lovely gray guard around the trunk. That's there to keep the weed wacker from hacking away any more of the trunk!
Poor, poor little tree.
For whatever reason, that's the tree she picked so here is her drawing and songs and poems to this poor little tree!
Her song sung to the tune of "Found a Peanut" or Clementine, if you prefer (sortof LOL) (:
My little orange tree, my little orange tree is so cute and soon it will be a big orange tree but now it is a little, o little orange tree.
Little orange tree, little orange tree you are so very cute and I know you will make yummy oranges someday. but right now you are still little, my little orange tree.
I have a little orange tree, it is so very cute. In the morning I go to see it grow little orange.
When I spy a little orange I will be so happy I will jump up in the air and scream so loudly I will knock the orange right off. So I love you little orange tree.
Story of the Orange tree:
The Story of My Orange Tree! This is my orange tree. (note there are illustrations to this story not included ;-) ) It was brought to us by our cousins. It began to die but it has some leaves now. We try to water it but sometimes we forget to. But, I still love it. The End
R chose our very sad little orange tree. My sister and bil gave us this tree as a house warming gift. Citrus trees don't like to be transplanted and this poor guy was transplanted a couple of times before finding it's final resting place (and I'm afraid it truly is a "resting" place). It only gets watered from our sprinklers, which isn't nearly enough. You'll also notice the lovely gray guard around the trunk. That's there to keep the weed wacker from hacking away any more of the trunk!
Poor, poor little tree.
For whatever reason, that's the tree she picked so here is her drawing and songs and poems to this poor little tree!
Her song sung to the tune of "Found a Peanut" or Clementine, if you prefer (sortof LOL) (:
My little orange tree, my little orange tree is so cute and soon it will be a big orange tree but now it is a little, o little orange tree.
Little orange tree, little orange tree you are so very cute and I know you will make yummy oranges someday. but right now you are still little, my little orange tree.
I have a little orange tree, it is so very cute. In the morning I go to see it grow little orange.
When I spy a little orange I will be so happy I will jump up in the air and scream so loudly I will knock the orange right off. So I love you little orange tree.
Story of the Orange tree:
The Story of My Orange Tree! This is my orange tree. (note there are illustrations to this story not included ;-) ) It was brought to us by our cousins. It began to die but it has some leaves now. We try to water it but sometimes we forget to. But, I still love it. The End
History:
Child's History of the World ch 85-91
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age
Augustus Caesar's World
Story of the Greeks
Story of the Romans
History Tales/Biography:
Trial and Triumph
Genesis, Finding Our Roots
Never Give In (Winston Churchill)
Geography
The Story of David Livingstone
Natural History
Handbook of Nature Study
School of the Woods
The Sea Around Us
Science
Exploring Creation with Zoology 3
Science Biography
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Galileo and the Magic Numbers
Shakespeare
Midsummer Nights Dream
The Tempest
Hamlet
Plutarch
Pericles
Literature
Age of Fable chapt. 29-end
The Hobbit
Animal Farm
The Iliad
Poetry
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
Alfred Noyes
Free Reading
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
Little Brother of the Bear by William J. Long
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 20th century -- Finished
*The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig -- Finished
***The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare -- Currently Reading
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor -- Finished
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates -- Finished
MIracles on Maple Hill, by Virginia Sorensen -- Currently Reading
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse -- Finished
Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Martyred Missionary to Ecuador by Russel T. Hitt
The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp
God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew -- Currently Reading
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry -- Finished
The Ark by Margo Benary-Isbert
Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stocku -- Finished
History Tales/Biography: Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark by James Daugherty
Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter by Miriam Huffman
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Teddy Roosevelt by George Grant
Geography
The Book of Marvels: The Occident and The Orient
Science:
Christian LIberty Nature Reader, Book5
The Fairy-land of Science by Arabella Buckley
Physics Lab in a Housewares Store by Robert Friedhoffer
Exploring Creation With Zoology 3
Science Biography:
Isaac Newton
Always Inventing
George Washington Carver
Poetry:
Rudyard Kipling
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier and Paul Lawrence Dunbar
History Tales/Biography Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula Finished
Da Vinci
Michelangelo by Diane Stanley
Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley
Squanto by Feenie Ziner
Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg
The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Free Reading Grade 3
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong
History
Trial and Triumph
An Island Story chapt. 1-21
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Viking Tales
American History Biography
Benjamin Franklin by D'Aulaire
George Washington by D'Aulaire
Buffalo Bill by D'Aulaire
Geography
Paddle to the Sea by Holling
Natural History/Science
Handbook of Nature Study
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
The Burgess Bird Book for Children Poetry
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Now We are Six/When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse
Literature
The Aesop for Children
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
The Blue Fairy Book
Just So Stories
Parables from Nature
Free Reading
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Red Fairy Book
St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams -- Finished
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pocahontas by D'Aulaire -- Currently Reading
FIAR Studies
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear by Glady's Scheffrin-Falk
Phonics
Reading Made Easy By Valerie Bendt
Math
Math U See Alpha
Handwriting
Handwriting Without Tears
My Reading List
Do You Think I'm Beautiful?
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God by Mary E. DeMuth
Other Books We're Reading
Mother Daughter Bookclub
September The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
October Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
November In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord
January Little Women
February Betsy & Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski
March Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
April Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
May All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
June The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
July Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Book Club Across The Miles a bookclub w/ fellow homeschoolers across the country The Penderwicks Mummies in the Morning
