What to Read Wednesday

The Best Valentine’s Day Books for Kids This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. As homeschoolers, isn’t it fun that we can incorporate holiday books into our reading, especially if they increase our understanding of why we celebrate the holidays the way we do? History of the Holiday One of our […]

The Best Chinese New Year Books for Kids This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. We usually do something special for Chinese New Year. My boys love Chinese food and have studied China for our homeschool support group’s International Festival. We have an uncle who lived in China for many years and has […]

The Best China Books for Kids This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. I am so lucky, because I get to travel to China every morning for my job as an online ESL teacher. It is so much fun to learn more about the culture of China through my students as I […]

The Best Children’s Books About School This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy. It’s that time of year–Time for school to start back! Once the new school supplies start appearing on store shelves, it really feels like fall. We are experiencing many changes this year as we transition from homeschool to college […]

The Best America Books for Kids In our homeschool, we seek out real life and hands on experiences for learning as often as possible. Our boys had a wonderful opportunity to meet a World War II veteran who is also a prolific artist, and we were honored to spend some time with him and learn more […]

The Best Easter Books for Kids & Free Printable This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Easter is just around the corner, and we are knee deep in Easter books for read aloud time. There are so many fun new choices for the spring holiday season, and we have a few classics we […]

The Best Tree Books for Kids This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. With fall in the air, it won’t be long until we start seeing changes in the trees all around us. These changes are a prime time to teach kids about trees and their life cycles through the year. The […]

The Best Medieval Books for Kids This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Learning about Medieval times with picture books is a great way to introduce young kids to this historical topic. Who can resist finding out about kings and queens, and castles and knights, and even a dragon or two? It’s […]

The Best Calendar Books Books for Kids This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. There are so many great calendar books for teaching days of the year to kids. It’s easy to find holiday books of all types, but if you want to teach kids the concept of general days and the […]

The Best Vacation Books for Kids This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. July is almost over, so this is the last ‘hurrah!’ for vacation time before school starts back. Do you vacation in July? As homeschoolers, we actually love to vacation during the ‘off’ season, and our schedule gives us a […]

The Best Shark Books for Kids This blog uses affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy. Fins to the left…Fins to the right… When I was a kid, the movie Jaws scared the willies out of everyone who saw it. When my cousins came to visit us in Charleston that year, they refused to even […]