“Well, we have been seeing flowers for years – but our children haven’t. Flowers are still new and wonderful to them, and it’s the fault of grown-ups if every new flower they see ceases to delight them.”
~ Charlotte Mason, volume 1 page 53
“They must be left to themselves for a good part of the day to take in their own impressions of nature’s beauty. There’s nothing worse than children being deprived of every moment to wonder and dream within their own minds because teachers and adults are constantly talking at them, not leaving them a moment’s peace. Yet, the mother must not miss this opportunity of being outdoors to train the children to have seeing eyes, hearing ears and seeds of truth deposited into their minds to grow and blossom on their own in the secret chambers of their imaginations.”
~ Charlotte Mason, volume 1, page 45
Ms M was very interested in the Second World War and we kept reading books related to it – fiction and non-fiction – for the longest time. I was going to write summaries and/or reviews, but I am in a blue funk because my digi-cam has gone wonky.
So here is a list of books we like… reviews will come later in shaa Allah… when my good humour is restored…
Reference
Stories/Chapter Books by Michael Morpurgo
Other Chapter Books
Picture Books, etc.
Ms M looks but isn’t the girly sort. She likes pretty scarves and pins, princessy dresses, flowers and lace. She also loves learning about spies and the World Wars. She was heavily into snakes at one point and never got queasy watching Venom ER and Austin Stevens at my mum’s.
She went craaaazy over pirates – no, not the Johnny Depp kind, thank you very much… the real ones! We read all about pirates, baked pirate cookies, attended a pirate party, put together a Jolly Roger and also made a pirate ship out of Hama beads. We also got a lovely surprise from the family behind Islamic Unit Studies – a pirate colouring book with stickers! You gotta love the blogging community :)
Some books we read:
Here are some links that you might find useful… I am still trying to download the book from WOWIO – if anyone in the US can help me, I’d appreciate it!