Here are two poems Talmage has memorized from his language lessons. I am using the text "First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind". It is a first and second grade curriculum. He is excelling at it and I usually combined several lessons because the lessons move too slow for him. Some days I wonder how I'll keep up with him. I need more chapter books that are "age" appropriate. We've gone through nearly all of the Beverly Cleary (Ramona, Henry Huggins...), Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach . . .), E.B. White (Charlotte's Web . . .) and many many others. Talmage averages at least two chapter books a week (being read to him). So does anyone have favorite books for younger kids?
4 comments:
Good Job Talmage! This is so wonderful! You are such a smart little boy! Thank ou for sharing!
I remember having the Indian in the Cupboard read to me sometime in elementary school. Talmage might enjoy those books. He is SO smart - I can't believe it!
We just read The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to Dallin and he loved it. I think Talmage might too. I have to edit too much of Prince Caspian for violence.
That's so great! Nothing can help prepare you for a lifetime of discovery better than a love of books and reading, imo.
One of my childhood favorites was The Farthest Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks, who also wrote the Indian in the Cupboard books.
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