Ooh, Calpurnia Tate is a good one. Did that with my son, need to dig it out. She’s already read most of the rest except no LeGuin here yet. And thanks for the French suggestion, always looking for easy French stuff esp with accompanying audio!

Thanks both for the heads-up. Definitely don’t need a slog at bedtime. We are in the middle of Immune for non-fiction and it’s the opposite of a slog!

We hated The Book Thief. Will look into the rest, thank you.

The catch is that I need to enjoy it too. I work like 80 hours a week but read aloud time is special and can’t be one more chore as we both have enough of those… prefer fiction but we do have non fiction lined up as well (we read 2-3 books at a time): Hidden Figures and Brave the Wild River for non fiction and Count of Monte Cristo for fiction. Tween girl. Others? 🙏

Thanks. Good reminder to have on the thread. I’m not personally on any meds

I’m bumping this thread—can orange juice be replaces by grapefruit juice? Freshly squeezed in each case but I much prefer the taste of grapefruit…

I mean, AMNH, but we are due to go again. Thank you!

We have Herkimer ia few hours away where I took my son—will need to make a trip with her for sure.

Dd has asked for a proper rock collection and a rock encyclopedia. i think I used to have both for DS who touched them not once 😉 but they’ve been lost in the moves. Any suggestions for me? Many thanks!

Interesting—this is what my sister said as well, exactly (they were there last week). Thank you!

When I took DS and his friend in middle school we did ALL the things, capitol tour, science museum, spy museum, zoo, library of congress, bureau of engraving and printing, etc etc. I even did a baseball game (nationals?) as DS’s friend was/is a baseball guy. now I’m taking DD and her friend and I’m old and can’t do all the things lol. we have the Spy museum, a tour of Capitol through our Senator’s office and the zoo (maybe. We have the Bronx zoo here so not sure the DC one impresses. All I remember from last time is a vile smell and shy pandas). We will walk through Georgetown and have lunch or dinner there. And walk around the monuments. i want to add one more museum. I’m dying to do the African American one but I’m told it’s a bit dark and my girl is somewhat sheltered and has a massive reaction to things. Two questions: —If I wanted to do ONE more museum, what would you choose? My DD is sciency but friend is more crafty/musical. We’ve done a number of art museums in NYC with these two girls so maybe the National Gallery? —is Bureau of Printing still doing the money tour? I recall we had to line up for tickets at a random street and it was a bit of a pain to obtain them but the boys did love it. —anything else must-do? I looked for any concert/event type tickets for an evening but I can’t seem to find much. Thanks for any thoughts

That’s very close to the text as we will be reading along? I have the Folgers on audible and have heard it while driving, it’s decent. I think this is the best Shakespeare entry for a tween girl so that’s what I’m rolling with lolz I plan to take her to see the new &Juliet play when we are done. i recall a very good one we either listened to on BbC or on some sort of cassette tape (as a kid that’s what we would have had lol) and it was so easy to listen I would do so while doing my housework. So maybe it’s just amazing in my memories but wondering what your favorite has been, as we read these at bedtime and can’t fall asleep. many thanks for any thoughts.

Hi, I already have masterpiece, but I don’t think this allows to watch the rest of the series. However, passport worked (and, small miracle, we got it to play on the actual TV) so thanks so much!

Oh geez, thanks for setting me straight. Amazon has all the rest of the episodes listed but “unavailable”. This is what usually my old foreign films say on Amazon when it’s really no longer avail so I was in panic lol.

Hello—my dd and I watched this through Season 4, ep 3 on prime, but the rest of the episodes show as “unavailable”. We don’t have cable but happy to purchase them wherever—would PBS Passport get us access to these? Many thanks for any thoughts 🙏❤️

So thoughtful, the bookmarks. where is the “she hated being impressed” quote from?

I’m tinkering my supplement soup. Has anyone done any research on best magnesium to take at bedtime recently? Very many thanks.

Whereas my school district is doing high school bio in 8th (with the grade going on the high school transcript). Same for algebra in 8th.

I’m reading out loud with DD the book “Immune” by the creator of this channel, and personally finding that I’m understanding, at long last, basic, middle school textbook things that get repeated often and I also repeat without much understanding (but owing ti this book it’s finally clicking for me…I’m not a science person). And so the sceptic side is now musing and wondering: is the science sound enough in these resources, or is it simplified into inaccuracy? Many thanks

She sounds good—I downloaded the audio for her Harvard ladies book since we have a drive today. Immune also looks good. Has anyone read that? Keep the ideas coming 🙏

I really like that lumni site—I think they started that during pandemic. Need vpn for some of the content though (which I have). I had forgotten about it. Thank you!!

I’m looking for “popular science” books to keep in our read aloud rotation. How readable is this one? I feel like we are in no man’s land with the non fiction (too old for most middle/elem), too young for adult ones. And if you have recommendations for such books, I’d love to hear them as I’m making a list! She’s in 7th. DS and I read Do no harm when he was this age and that was great (but more memoir than science which is fine) many thanks for any thoughts

The Home by Penelope Mortimer The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Back to update. I’m hearing it this morning too. Definitely light coming out of my huge window and definitely bushes right below. But it’s cold!

If it’s mice, I had no idea they could be this loud!