6packofun Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Always on the hunt for new titles to read aloud here while they will still listen! lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Ramona the Pest. I forgot how badly behaved she was!!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 We have several read alouds that we cycle through during Morning Time. We have just finished Her Stories and are almost done with Fifty Famous Stories Retold. We are in the process of reading aloud the following: From Sea to Shining Sea Lives of the Scientists Heroes of the Environment The Autumn Moon The Wild Muir Lives of Extraordinary Women We Were There Too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 We have several read alouds that we cycle through during Morning Time. We have just finished Her Stories and are almost done with Fifty Famous Stories Retold. We are in the process of reading aloud the following on a rotational basis: From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs Lives of the Scientists Heroes of the Environment The Autumn Moon The Wild Muir Lives of Extraordinary Women We Were There Too! 101 Changemakers Abraham Lincoln's World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsunshine Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 To Kill A Mockingbird 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 We are currently reading Peter Pan. They are going to be in a kid production and I wanted them to hear the original. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I'm listening to the Harry Potter series in hopeful expectation of a trip to London sometime. :-) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 My kids favorites: Island of the Blue Dolphin Sign of the Beaver The Indian in the Cupboard series Old Yellar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatherwith4 Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Ramona and Her Mother The Fellowship of the Ring 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 We just finished The Green Ember and started the prequel The Blackstar of Kingston. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Above The Rowan Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Tales From Wildwood It is fantastic!! A bit Narnia-ish. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Right now we are reading Wonder. For fun. DS loves it, and I do too. :) It's timely since DS is the new kid in the neighborhood and is fielding questions like, "what is homeschooling?" from his peers for the first time. And I love some of the pop culture references in the book. We're also reading Sapiens. We'd taken a break, but DS asked for it last night so we started it again. Those are the fun books. Everything else is ... School stuff. Fun, but perhaps not noteworthy here. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristie in Florida Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Sense and Sensibility. She can't quite read it by herself yet but was sick of waiting. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenaj Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Just finished the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I was surprised by the enthusiastic response it got from kids ages 6 up to 14. Now they want to read some more of the Oz books. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamanthaCarter Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (Lloyd Alexander) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 We're reading through some of the books in the Smithsonian Oceanic Collection. Great books! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callapidder Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Almost done with The Book of Three, and plan to continue through the Chronicles of Prydain. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I didn't know there was a difference between school and fun. Isn't that part of the reason we homeschool? ;) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertBlossom Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 On a whim I picked up the audio book on cd for the Spiderwick Chronicles to listen to it in the car. We've just started it, but my kids are loving it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashfern Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Heidi. The kids are loving it while I am not. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 I'm reading How Children Fail by John Holt. We have been reading Aesop's fables together. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathnerd Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Dr Doolittle series - I don't like it as much - but, my DS seems to love it and enjoy it a lot. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 School reading has been a lot of non-fiction through the Renaissance (Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines, Famous Men). Hamlet will be coming up soon though. No time for fun read-alouds anymore, but we're listening to The Graveyard Book in the car as we drive around to kid activities. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momee Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Hinds Feet on High Places for my older one and this for my younger one http://www.amazon.com/Hinds-Feet-High-Places-Delightfully/dp/0768420210/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1443556827&sr=8-4&keywords=hinds+feet+on+high+places 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outdoorsy Type Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Audio: Fellowship Of The Ring and Where The Red Fern Grows. Audio for youngest: Dramatized Narnia Read Aloud to all: Chestry Oak Reading to youngest: Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. ETA: in the car when DH is with us: HP and the Sorcerers Stone. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Disclaimer: as of this fall, I am no longer home schooling. My youngest just started high school. But I am still reading aloud! For him, it's The Once and Future King For 18 yo, I am reading Resilience: Hard Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life by Eric Greitens. He is transitioning slowly to adulthood and has had a serious depression, so it seemed apt. Many references to the ancients which my classical heart likes! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollhouse Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 We're reading "Holes" right now. We just finished "My Side of the Mountain" and "Ginger Pye." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Oliver Twist. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 And...my boys are 10-almost 15 and have informed me that they will listen to read-alouds even when they are in college. :) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 The Green Ember by S.D. Smith for my olders and Ramona the Pest for my little girls! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 The Tempest - Charles Lamb then some Shakespearean language tossed in from Poetry for Young People William Shakespeare. - all together The Mysterious Benedict Society - all together D'Aulaire's Greek Myths - all together Ginger Pye - with DS And Then There Were None - with DD 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thessa516 Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 The Black Star of Kingston by S.D. Smith (just for fun) Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac (ties in with our history) All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn (our Halloween read) North! or Be Eaten by Andrew Peterson (#2 in the Wingfeather Saga - just for fun) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 Tales From Wildwood It is fantastic!! A bit Narnia-ish. Can you give a link for this? Is it Wildwood by Colin Meloy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlemommy Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 Langs fairy tales (during sensory play time with dd3, but usually everyone listens), Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (all the kids), Little House (dd2's bedtime story), and Eragon (dd1's bedtime story), various picture books (dd3's bedtime stories), Pippi Longstocking (audio in the car), Story of the World (together during school). I just finished reading The Neverending Story to dd1 at bedtime and it was fantastic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Lord of the Flies. :zombie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 KJV in the car 'Packing for Mars' (edited as necessary for a younger audience!) Geraldine McCaughrean's 'Canterbury Tales.' We're both really enjoying that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Farmer Boy The kids don't remember the last time we read it aloud, and they are enjoying it very much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Farmer Boy The kids don't remember the last time we read it aloud, and they are enjoying it very much. No book, including Homer Price, ever made me want to eat donuts more than that book!! LOL!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammyw Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Treasure Island for my son, and The Moffatts as our nightly read aloud. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Tanglewoods secret, The life of Saint Therese, and random library books 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers How are you coping? Don't you want to slap her? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perogi Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 The Green Ember all together The Golden Goblet dd1 Jeremy's War dd2 Follow my Leader ds 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocCityMom Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 We just finished The Wanderings of Odysseus and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. Both were hits with my 7 and 9 year olds. I absolutely loved Mrs. Frisby; as a child, I think I had only seen the animated film and somehow missed reading the book. My boys just started listening to The Indian in the Cupboard. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 How are you coping? Don't you want to slap her? Ha. Well, we are only three chapters in, but to me she's obviously a witch on leave. (Like a potions and wands witch.) I suppose the story may reveal itself otherwise but so far I like my notion that she was burned out on the witching business so she decided to nanny for a bit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lea_lpz Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Naya Naki- Girl Who Ran Meet Cecile (AG series) My kids are 6 & 8. We're doing US history. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbobeara Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 We finished The Willoughbys last week. DD9 (and whoever is in the room) is listening to me read The Little Princess. Based on her asking me to read the servants' words in proper English so she can understand them, we may move onto The Secret Garden. She read it herself for fun but it sounds like she skipped whatever the servants had to say. We may also be reading The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, which is probably not your typical read aloud! Last night, I was trying to get my son interested in something new and so I read the first few chapters out loud last night as a teaser. He grudgingly listened and seemed to enjoy it but we'll see if it continues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 We're reading The Trumpet of the Swan again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abeille Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 We just finished The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which both ds and I enjoyed very much. We're currently reading through As You Like It for his Shakespeare class, and Ever Since Darwin for his biology class project (though we may be switching books if this one doesn't start holding ds' interest better). Not sure what our next literature read-aloud will be yet, probably either Fahrenheit 451 or Slaughterhouse Five. Reading aloud while bundled up on the couch with our dogs is ds' favorite part of homeschooling, so we'll continue with read-alouds for as long as he still enjoys them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted September 30, 2015 Author Share Posted September 30, 2015 Last night, I was trying to get my son interested in something new and so I read the first few chapters out loud last night as a teaser. He grudgingly listened and seemed to enjoy it but we'll see if it continues. My 9yo VERY grudgingly started listening to read-alouds a little over a year ago. He would complain every single time I cracked open a book, but I just ignored him and kept going. Now, he actively looks for the next read-aloud! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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