It's been nearly a month since we "officially" began our 2011-2012 school year, and I am now just getting around to posting. We did do a bit of light work on auditory memory and a lot of read-aloud books over the summer. Here were the kids summer favorites:
Abby discovered the Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew series this summer. Although the the main characters are the same, the girls are much younger than in the original Nancy Drew stories that I grew up with.
As an eight-year-old third grader, Nancy Drew loves to solve mysteries. Three girls get invited to a sleepover at Deirdre Shannon's, where they play games, eat pizza and cake, and watch Deirdre open her presents. However, one present catches the girls' attention: the City Doll Hollywood Heather. After a good night's sleep, a panicked Deirdre wakes Nancy up to tell her that her Hollywood Heather doll is missing and begs her to help solve the case. Nancy, George, and Bess set out to discover who has taken the missing doll. The three girls collect evidence, generate a suspect list, and begin to question the other girls who attended the sleepover.
While Ian loved listening to three installments in The Magic Repair Shop series.
Twelve-year-old Maggie Malloy can make wishes come true. But she’s learned that people like magic better in storybooks than in real life, and longs to find someone who understands her power. When she’s forced to spend a year with her grandmother, Maggie discovers an old magic repair shop—and the owner, Mr. McGuire, is a real magician, just like Maggie! She becomes Mr. Maguire’s apprentice and learns how to repair cauldrons, break disfiguring hexes, and mend magic hats that won’t stop duplicating rabbits. But Maggie is in more trouble than she bargained for when an evil magician, Milo the Magnificent, comes to town with his deadly magic act.
Nathan usually falls off to sleep in the evening as we read. He has no favorite series at this time but loves all kinds of books and is eager to pick his own books to read.
