Crystal Wiley

Since many libraries have closed for the unforeseeable future, I hope to help offer several of our family’s favorite read-aloud books for the whole family. For a shorter read, this short child’s adventure book appeals to everyone in the family. Our kids still talk about these hilarious books and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle’s solutions for children’s bad habits (and it’s been three years since we read through them all). The Read Aloud Handbook Give Your Child the World Read Aloud Revival Booklists (website)

So links you find in this post are resources our family has used and feels are USEFUL and won’t waste your or your child’s time but be fruitful for their time at home. If you have 15 minutes a day to read aloud, you’ll be surprised how kids will gather around and listen to children’s classics or a different fairy tale each day (whatever you have on hand will work!) We just signed up for THE GREAT COURSES free trial (for a month) and here is a list of HEROES HISTORY BOOKS LIST from my HEROES + HOPE SIMPLE STUDIES. If you’re creating a schedule, maybe you schedule a time to gather for 30 minutes each day.

This weekend over on Instagram I launched my new Simple Studies: HEROES & HOPE – This is a faith-based study featuring timeless & historical heroes who’ve inspired generations with hope for centuries. So many inclusions with this one: A coloring book aligning with each lesson, a massive picture book list with links, and copywork, recipes and other resources. With Heroes & Hope, instructors read aloud while students cover reading, history, handwriting, narration, art, memorization and critical thinking among other areas of schooling.

and it’s become so much bigger than anything I ever expected… It’s called Learning North American Animals with Thornton Burgess – With Learning North American Animals with Thornton Burgess, students will cover science, reading, handwriting, spelling, narration, drawing or art among other areas of schooling. Rather, our aim is to encourage our children to form personal relations with God’s beautiful animal creations and give them the opportunity to fall in love with learning more about these lovely, unique creatures. So I specifically designed it for those looking for a simple, flexible way to lay the feast on the beautiful pages of the Burgess Animal Book for Children.