We are wrapping up our school year and my boys are all busy finishing up their reading.. though we'll read here and there on our summer vacation I don't require them to read everyday.
1. Iceberg by Clive Cussler- My oldest is really enjoying this series of books. In this book Dirk Pitt is pulled away from his vacation to go to the North Atlantic where a ship has been found floating inside a giant iceberg.
2. Firstborn by Tor Seidler-- Blue Boy has a son named Lamar that he wants to see take over the pack someday but Lamar is not living up to his father's expectations... a great story that shows it takes bravery and courage to just be ourselves.
3. Al Capone Does My Homework-- In this third book in the series Moose's apartment catches fire one night and many on the island think his sister Natalie started it. Now Moose and his friends must try and determine who started the fire and why.
4. Wings of Fire the Dark Secret by Tui Sutherland-- Both of my younger two boys read (or began reading) this book this month. As the 4th book in the series it introduced the island of the Nightwings.
5. Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret by Trudi Trueit-- Crus leaves his home in Hawaii to train at the Explorer Academy, a prestigious honor, but soon finds himself at the center of an evil plot. He must solve the puzzle of who is out to get him and why.
6. Brotherband Chronicles: The Outcasts by John Flanagan-- These outcasts might be smaller than the other boys but that doesn't mean they are weak. They go to battle at sea against the other bands in an ultimate race. My husband read this series a few years ago and suggested Alec give it a try. So far he seems to be enjoying it.
Fellow homeschooler here! Love your list of books. Some of my kiddos love to read, but some don't. Sometimes it is finding those "perfect" books! Thank you!
Happy April Fool's day to you! It's the first Monday of the month and time for Prime Purchases with Tanya. I was doing so well with my Amazon purchases right up until the end of the month when we decided to host Easter dinner at our house and I felt like I "needed" so much not having any Easter decorations at all. I bought a few new cardigans for this "in between" season and really love this cable knit one so much it's all I can do to keep myself from buying a second one! I also like this gray one.. . but I find myself wishing I had bought it a different color since it's not very "spring" feeling. Evan needed some new hiking shoes and we really wanted something waterproof this year but our local shoe stores didn't have anything that worked so we turned to Amazon and he found this pair that he really likes. I've been working on lots of scrapbook pages and I needed to buy some more of these adhesive refills and Cricut cutting
Last spring when Alec started his college planning I was pretty surprised that he only wanted to visit 2 colleges out of state (he visited a few in-state with his high school culinary class). He ultimately decided to apply to just the 2 colleges we visited-- Johnson and Wales University (JWU) and the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). Both ranked as the #1 & #2 schools in the U.S for culinary and baking/pastry arts. Funny enough out of his 2 culinary teachers he's had in high school one attended each of those schools! Photo of harborside campus from last spring JWU Future wildcat photo also from last spring Visiting the CIA over the summer We were lucky that both schools are easily visited in a day and we had a great time touring them both. Alec made sure to ask lots and lots of questions. The two schools were so comparable to one another that we had quite the pro/con list going. He LOVED the CIA's campus and that it was along a river and rather rural and quiet... but
I decided to document last Friday for today's Friday Favorites post. I hardly ever document a day in the life anymore now that my boys are grown and mostly on their own. But I knew we had a pretty full day and thought it might be fun. These are some of my favorite posts to read and I think I did a pretty great job remembering to document and take pictures for the whole day! 5:00 wake up and I allow myself to blog, read emails, etc. until 5:30 5:30 get up, get dressed for the gym, put away my laundry from the night before, make the bed. 5:45 head downstairs to make Alec's lunch (1/2 way though he came to the balcony to tell me he wasn't going to school since he wasn't feeling well-- he's 18 and allowed to make this call himself). I decided to make a salad, some chicken salad, hard boil some eggs, and cut up all the fruit since we had just done groceries after dinner last night and none of that had been done yet. I emptied, reloaded, and restarted the dishwasher.
What did they think of Explorer Academy? We have that one but no one has read it yet!
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DeleteFellow homeschooler here! Love your list of books. Some of my kiddos love to read, but some don't. Sometimes it is finding those "perfect" books! Thank you!
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