Marcus is reading several books at the moment, but recently completed A Good Night for Ghosts, Mary Pope Osborne (~110 pages), and a few shorter stories like: Grandaddy's Place (Helen Griffith), Goldilocks and the Three Bears (a modern take on the old fairy tale by Steven Guarnaccia), How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball (David Shannon).Gabriella is reading through all of her Magic School Bus Books again and also her "about" books: About Birds, About Mammals, About Arachnids, etc... (Catherine Sill). We have all of them and although they are very simple, she enjoys the illustrations and the longer descriptions of each animal in the back of the book. Gabriella is very much enjoying Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg (Levine, ~208 pages) and is almost finished.
Gabriella and Marcus both recently finished The McElderry Book of Aesop's Fables (Morpurgo), and The Unusual Suspects (The Sisters Grimm, Book 2, ~320 pages).
We are currently reading The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Braum, ~200 pages). I particularly like the version illustrated by the Junior Library, as the writing is a bit larger and the illustrations are simple and sweet.
Steve recently finished his unit on Literary Devices and now, especially during family worship, the children are recognizing them when we read scripture. His plan is to teach them ten new devices each year. They now are familiar with: Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole, Understatement, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Hendiadys, Eupemism, and Irony. If you would like to see what he has done, feel free to email him! He's happy to share :-).
