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It’s a basic overview of George Washington’s life paired with simple, but nice illustrations, making it another good option to share with younger kids. Judith St. George’s Take the Lead, George Washington is a colorful picture book about Washington George Washington’s Breakfast is a fun book to add to your reading pile because it does such a great job of bringing you into life as George Washington knew it. A Newberry Honor Title recipient, Genevieve Foster’s George Washington’s World is a great choice if you’re looking for living books about Washington that are well-suited for older students.

Here are a few other things I’m learning about playing with my kids: I’m so grateful for homeschooling and the gifts that come with it, but all those blurred lines between life and learning sometime make it hard to just be mom and connect with my kids without an educational agenda in the back of my mind. Now that I know how to play, I’m able to jump down in the floor and play against one of my kids every couple of days. Playing with my kids helps me see value in their interests. In closing, know that it’s okay if playing with your kids doesn’t come naturally to you.

That changes a bit when you’re facilitating poetry teatime as a class through your co-op. Instead of simple and relaxed, homeschool co-op poetry teatime usually has to last a certain amount of time and hold all kinds of attention spans. Before we jump into those themes, keep in mind that it’s nice to have poetry collections like A Child’s Book of Poems and A Child’s Garden of Verses on hand for your homeschool co-op Poetry Teatime classes. It’s always fun to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday with kids each March, so this Dr. Seuss-inspired teatime is a fun idea to incorporate into your co-op class. Brave Writer’s Poetry Teatime site has some fun suggestions for World Cup Poetry Teatime.

It explains Maria’s background, the general perception about insects at that point in history, and Maria’s scientific contributions in regards to insects and metamorphosis. Using any photos or book illustrations for inspiration, have your child sketch one phase of the life cycle into each quarter of the unpainted circle (eggs, caterpillar, chrysalis, and butterfly, in clockwise order). In addition to cutting the two basic circles, cut out one quarter from the the top circle at this time (the one without the life cycle). We’re loving our butterfly life cycle art project, but we’re also excited to take a look at the other book-inspired ideas happening through The Nature Book Club.