first grade

  • What Nino Read, September 2016

    A Child’s Book of Manners A Gift of Gracias Atoms and Molecules Experiments Using Ice, Salt, Marbles, and More Bard of Avon Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Mayo/Malone) Buffalo Bill Bugged: How Insects Changed History Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chemical… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, August 2016

    26 Fairmount Avenue A Kiss for Little Bear A Spider Story Abner Doubleday (Dunham) Alamat ng Ampalaya Billy and Blaze Blaze and Thunderbolt Blaze Shows the Way Charlotte’s Web Daniel (Animated Stories Activity Book) Edward Hopper (Venezia) Extreme Machines Eyewitness… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, July 2016

    A Boy Named Giotto A Little Pigeon Toad A Swiftly Tilting Planet A wind in the door And Then It’s Spring Are You My Mother? Attack of the Clones Basic Aid Training Basketball for Young Champions Bionics Brian Jacques The… Continue reading

  • Resources for Drawing Comic Superheroes

    We were just at Michaels to pick up stuff for Nino’s sacramental preparation portfolio (will blog that at a later date) and he found a book on how to draw comics, except it wasn’t on sale, and the “50% off… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, June 2016

    A Rooster in the Sun / Ang Tandang sa Araw A Spider Story (Isang Kuwentong Gagamba) Alamat ng Ampalaya Alexander Graham Bell Ang Mahiyaing Manok Ang Prinsipe ng mga Ibon Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare Beverly Cleary:… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, February 2016

    Zita the Spacegirl Legends of Zita the Spacegirl The Return of Zita the Spacegirl Little Catechism on the Eucharist Hurricane and Tornado Childcraft World and Space The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook Saint Martin de Porres Star Wars The Yoda Chronicles… Continue reading

  • Homeschooling First Grade Science (A Sample Curriculum)

    Posting this for my friend Madora who asked for a bit of guidance on how to homeschool Science with a first grader without the use of a textbook. Prior to fifth grade and often even beyond, I rarely use a… Continue reading

  • My 6-year-old’s Christmas/Birthday Wish List

    Sharing this in case it’s helpful to anyone who’s gift-planning for their own kids. A catalog came to the house a few weeks ago, and today I found these items circled in it. LOL. He just made our gift-giving easy.… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read (November 2015 Update)

    Religion, History, Geography: The Reader’s Digest Children’s Atlas of the World On the Mayflower If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Favorite Norse Myths Thomas A. Edison (COFA) Abner Doubleday (COFA) If You Lived at the Time… Continue reading

  • What Nino Read, October 2015

    Curriculum “after the fact” What Nino read the past couple of months or so. He’ll be 7 in December, so I guess this is around first grade? Right now our 13-year-old does a combo of unschooling/homeschooling/co-op schooling, so whenever I’m… Continue reading