Rain Garden: The Friendly Beasts

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Friendly Beasts

I have officially arrived into the Christmas season with Songs for Christmas by Sufjan Stevens. This version of The Friendly Beasts has been known to make my brother cry and now it is making me cry too. Enjoy.

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Reading Aloud (for our little home-school) -- Ambleside Online: Year One

Viking Tales - Jennie Hall
Paddle-to-the-Sea - Holling C. Holling
The Aesop for Children - Milo Winter
The Burgess Bird Book for Children - Thornton W. Burgess
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
The Blue Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
DK Illustrated Children's Bible
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
Piper, Pipe That Song Again: Poems for Boys and Girls - Selected by Nancy Larrick
Buffalo Bill - Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
Children of the North Lights - Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (finished)
When We Were Very Young - A.A. Milne (finished)
Fifty Famous Stories Retold - James Baldwin (finished)
Pocahontas - Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (finished)
Benjamin Franklin - Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (finished)
George Washington - Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (finished)
Our Island Story - H.E. Marshall (audiobook)
A Child's Garden of Verse - Robert Louis Stevenson (finished)

2013 Booklist: Completed

Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (audio)
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (audio)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (audio)
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life - Gretchen Rubin
Room with a View - E.M. Forster (audio)
Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montegomery (audio)
Hatchett - Gary Paulsen (audio)
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense - David Guterson
The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom - Mary Griffith
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (audio)
The Cricket in Times Square - George Selden (Read Aloud)
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie - Wendy McClure
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montegomery (audio)
Lengendary Learning: The Famous Homeschoolers' Guide to Self-Directed Excellence - Jamie McMillin
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis (audio)
Your Five Year Old: Sunny and Serene - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
Your Two Year Old: Terrible or Tender - Louise Bates Ames, Frances Ilg
Your Seven Year Old: Life in a Minor Key - Louise Bates Ames, Frances Ilg

2012 Booklist: Completed

One Whaling Family: A Stirring Adventure - the Authentic Account of a Great Whaling Captain Who Took His Family to Sea - Edited by Harold Williams
Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
Why? - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes - Mark Bitterman
Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round - Marisa MeClellan
The Preservation Kitchen: The Craft of Making and Cooking with Pickles, Preserves, and Aigre-doux - Paul Virant, Kate Leahy
A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond - Harriet Fasenfest
Your One Year Old: The Fun-Loving, Fussy 12 to 24 Month Old - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
Your Four Year Old: Wild and Wonderful - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
Your Six Year Old: Loving and Defiant - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook - Alice Waters
I'm Still Scared - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
An Invitation to Indian Cooking - Madhury Jaffrey (again)
Things Will Never Be the Same - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home - Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Bauer
Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting - Pamela Druckerman
The King of the Golden River - John Ruskin (Read Aloud)
A Charlotte Mason Education - Catherine Levison
A Home Start in Reading - Ruth Beechick
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis (Read Aloud)
What a Year - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
On My Way - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking - Kate Payne
Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes - Jennifer McLagan
The Essential Oils Handbook: All the Oils You Will Ever Need for Health, Vitality and Well-Being - Jennie Harding
The Mystery of the Periodic Table - Benjamin D. Wiker
Here We All Are - Tomie dePaola (Read Aloud)
26 Fairmount Avenue - Tomie dePaola (Read Aloud)
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Aromatherapy: A Practical Approach to the Use of Essential Oils for Health & Well-being - Julia Lawless
Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Bodycare for Every Body - Dina Falconi

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Friendly Beasts

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