You all know us and how we can’t resist an opportunity to celebrate!!! We love making books memorable and today was Today was World Book Day and the perfect day to bring one of our favourites to life. Let’s introduce our favourite picture book ever: The Green Ship by Quentin Blake: It is the story [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Language Arts'
Se7en Celebrate World Book Day With The Green Ship…
March 8th, 2013 · 10 Comments
Tags: Language Arts · What We Are Reading
Se7en + 1 Shadow Puppets – Book Reviews on a Stick…
January 31st, 2013 · 12 Comments
This week we have been enjoying our book reviews on a stick… There comes a time when the fun of a book can be totally destroyed by another written book review… and I am happy for our kids to be able to enjoy what they are reading in any number ways… Today we took a [...]
Tags: Language Arts · People/Puppet Crafts · Se7en at School · Tuesday Art Task
What We Are Reading Right Now #3 – The Back to School Edition…
August 14th, 2012 · 12 Comments
This is a special edition… When my friend Zoe at Playing By the Book calls for books on a particular topic… then we respond!!! I thought we might battle to find books about “Back to School” since we have never been in school… turns out there are heaps of school books out there and tons [...]
Tags: Language Arts · Reviews · Se7en at School · What We Are Reading
Se7en’s Summer Reading: The Fairy Episode… Crafts, Reads and Exploring…
May 15th, 2012 · 12 Comments
It has been a while since I had a little girl who was wild about fairies and since fairy parties were the order of the day… everyday!!! But suddenly this past summer we had two small girls of just the right age: the moment between everything being just too tricky for little hands and too [...]
Tags: Book Crafts · Language Arts · Se7en at School · Tuesday Art Task
Happy Birthday William Shakespeare… And a Visit to the Globe Theatre.
April 23rd, 2012 · 10 Comments
Today is Shakespeare’s birthday and in our Summer of reading and we have been reading Shakespeare… lots of it!!! I know, it’s a weird homeschool thing!!! When we started blogging a couple of years back we mentioned that Hood #1 was mad about Shakespeare. In the first few years of homeschooling we covered quite a [...]
Tags: Language Arts · Se7en at School
The War Horse… A Drop Everything and Read All Day Book…
April 19th, 2012 · 5 Comments
A couple of posts back I mentioned that this had been the summer of reading… I wasn’t joking – and one book in particular stands out. When we saw that Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse was going to be a movie we knew that we had to read it quickly, before anybody got to see the [...]
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Saturday Spot: Se7en’s Summer Reading Stack and the Library Pile…
April 3rd, 2012 · 4 Comments
My summer reading plan was well thought out and carefully preprepared!!! It involved a weekly trip to the library: One evening each week we headed out and filled our quota of books then we headed home to hours of silence!!! Whatever the kids selected we read… and read and read… I have to declare we [...]
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