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Can't you all see Theresa writing a tremendous study using these books!?  |
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LOL!
Funny thing is, we are reading "One Day in the Desert" as our nature book next week! I already have it set aside, ready to go!
Great minds think alike!
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That sounds like an awesome book! Why have I never heard of this? Maybe because I've never been much of a doll person it slipped past my radar.
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The Moffats by Eleanor Estes....
There are four books in the series about life in small town Cranbury around WWI.
The books are quite funny and could be read independently by a student in grades 3-5.
Over the four books there are abundant subject topics to in corporate into daily study: WWi- planting victory gardens, and the school children all knitting washcloths for the soldiers. The part about the "false victory" announcement was very interesting.
There is a scene with a Salvation Army preacher that is funny but could also spur a lot of conversation. Also trolley cars and trains, a homemade museum, the oldest inhabitant turning 100 ( a civil War vet- the whole scene is quite hilarious and yet very touching), Straw Hat Day (when all the men in town throw their hats into the sea to mark the end of sum-
mer) would be interesting to research....
There's just a lot in there, and it is fun to hear of the adventures of the Moffats.
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Wah! So many great books! How will we ever read them all??
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lapazfarm wrote:
Wah! So many great books! How will we ever read them all??
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I know! It drives me nuts just thinking about all the great books out there.
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Louisa May Alcott books.. not necessarily Little Women, Little Men and Jo's Boys.. but maybe
Eight Cousins, Jack and Jill, Under the Lilacs.. lots of geography, nature (mountains, beach) etc
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lapazfarm wrote:
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I missed this growing up, too, because I wasn't a doll person either. I read this last year and couldn't put it down!
I also read almost all of Rumer Godden's doll books and found them wonderful!
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SeaStar wrote:
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes....
There are four books in the series about life in small town Cranbury around WWI.
The books are quite funny and could be read independently by a student in grades 3-5.
Over the four books there are abundant subject topics to in corporate into daily study: WWi- planting victory gardens, and the school children all knitting washcloths for the soldiers. The part about the "false victory" announcement was very interesting.
There is a scene with a Salvation Army preacher that is funny but could also spur a lot of conversation. Also trolley cars and trains, a homemade museum, the oldest inhabitant turning 100 ( a civil War vet- the whole scene is quite hilarious and yet very touching), Straw Hat Day (when all the men in town throw their hats into the sea to mark the end of sum-
mer) would be interesting to research....
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I was just going to post something similar. I absolutely love Elizabeth Enright with her stories of Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away, but somehow missed her Melendy Quartet series. I just read through them and found them so delightful, and they are also written in the period of WWII, with lots of nature and child independence. Just wonderful, wonderful books.
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The Betsy-Tacy books are excellent (early 1900s - great detail on family life, school, clothes, etc.).
Also, if you have time and money to go on a quest for out of print books, I highly recommend anything by Margaret Leighton. (Judith of France might be too old for your dd, don't know - it has a more romantic theme and witchcraft is mentioned, so if you could find it you would want to pre-read it. So far it's been the hardest of her books for me to find affordably.)
Also, Noel Streetfield's dancing shoes series...
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Oh---my ds listened to Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away
on cd over and over and over last summer. He loved them!
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JennGM wrote:
I was just going to post something similar. I absolutely love Elizabeth Enright with her stories of Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away, but somehow missed her Melendy Quartet series. I just read through them and found them so delightful, and they are also written in the period of WWII, with lots of nature and child independence. Just wonderful, wonderful books. |
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I was just going to suggest the Melendy series. I am reading 'Then There Was Five' with my ds right now and we are enjoying it a great deal. This series offers a plethora of jumping off points for rabbit trails....nature study, WWII, Shakespeare, classical music, astronomy, etc. and this is just from one book!
Oh, I am getting so excited! I feel the temptation to do our own rabbit trails with these books.
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