Well, last week was our annual reading week. We took hundreds of books out of the library, read many of them, and also really exercised our right to start a book and then decide it wasn’t for us. It was a wonderful adventure, one that we look forward to every year. We would have spent […]
Weekly Wrap Up
Weekly Wrap-Up
This was Remembrance Week. We finished reading aloud a book about the Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, wrote and drew about the past, and attended Remembrance Day ceremonies. At these ceremonies, I always think about my Dutch parents, freed by Canadian soldiers. I am intensely grateful to the veterans and those who suffered with them, […]
Weekly Wrap-Up: Mostly Writing
Miss 12 started her NaNoWriMo novel on Monday. She writes a few hours a day, with a Huguenot history book on her lap. Occasionally she makes forays onto Wikipedia to learn more about French geography and history. When she found the NaNoWriMo word count goals for different grades she was shocked to see that her […]