Tuesday, August 18, 2015

My Reading List: Prep for NEXT Year!

Okay, I'll admit it. I DO like to plan, make up schedules and lists, and follow a routine. After summer days, I'm always ready to get back to my regularly scheduled program!

But even for me, this is planning pretty far ahead. Those lovely ladies on the Ambleside Online forum are really rubbing off on me!

My intent for this year: to leisurely (I hope) read through all the books I expect my oldest son to read for his school work next year, while at the same time making some notes of some questions I might ask him to engage him in conversation about said books. This feels ambitious as a fairly new home educator! It may also be unnecessary, as I'm unsure how many of these books he'll be able to read on his own, and how many we'll end up reading together. My assumption is that it is best to read most of them anyways!

Without further ado, here is my reading list:

Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall (I've read some of this, but need to finish it)
Leonardo Da Vinci by Emily Hahn
Bard of Avon by Diane Stanley
The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
Pagoo by Holling C. Holling
Secrets of the Woods by William J. Long
American Tall Tales by Adrien Soutenburg
The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Children of the New Forest by F. Marryat
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong

Wow - now that I've listed that all out (from the Ambleside Online Year 3 curriculum booklist), I'm feeling like I better get cracking if I expect to get all that read, especially in a year in which we are expecting a newborn to join the family!

ETA: As I read, I'll mark off the ones I finish with!

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