We are currently studying the Arctic circle, using FIAR books as our core. Although we use the text from FIAR, I will only be posting the extra activities we do. The Very Last First Time chronicles a young Inuit girl's very first time mussel gathering under the ice of the oceans. I particularly like the…
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Around the World with FIAR: Snowflake Bentley
We are currently studying the Arctic circle, using FIAR books as our core. Although we use the text from FIAR, I will only be posting the extra activities we do. This week we read Snowflake Bentley, which is a stunning and probably my favourite ever FIAR book. It has the most beautiful real photos of…
Around the World with FIAR: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening is a poem by one of my very favourite poets, Robert Frost. This a simple poem which Frost claims he wrote in just one night. Simple it maybe, but it has a class that spans the ages. As it is short I have included it here: Whose…
Around the World with FIAR: Owl Moon and the Arctic Circle
Owl moon is a book about a father taking his child out one evening to hunt for owls. We slowly worked through the FIAR manual and Bible and Character manual produced by FIAR. However, my main goal for using these books was geographical, just to introduce the little ones to world geography. I would be…
Around the World with Five in a Row (FIAR)
We will be using Five in a Row curriculum with my two littlest up until the end of 2015. We don't have enough weeks to cover every book. As I am doing world geography with the older children along side their explorers unit I am also going to 'travel' around the world with my littles…
Before Five in a Row (Ages 2-4)
In a quest to organise my blog a bit better, I am attempting to gather posts with similar themes together in one place. These are all my Before Five in a Row posts. I used Before Five in a Row with my pre-schoolers as their very first 'structured' school. It is a literature based program…