Book Basket

Warning...this list is extensive!!!!
These are all a list for Joshua for the upcoming year. (Many of these are from the http://www.sonlight.com/ booklists and some are just books we want Josh to read and series he has started and enjoys.)

The Big Balloon Race (I Can Read Book 3)
Greg's Microscope (I Can Read Book 3)
Hill of Fire (An I Can Read Book, Level 3)
Surprises (I Can Read Book 3)
The Sword in the Tree (Trophy Chapter Book)
The Titanic: Lost and Found (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4)
Wagon Wheels (I Can Read, Book 3) (Book & CD
Chalk Box Kid (Stepping Stone, paper)
Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read Book 3)
Cora Frear
The House on Walenska Street (Puffin Chapters)
Jake Drake, Bully Buster
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (1st Avenue)
The Last Little Cat
The Long Way to a New Land (I Can Read Book 3)
The Long Way Westward (I Can Read Book 3)
Paint Brush Kid (Stepping Stone, paper)
Prairie School (I Can Read Book 4)
Riding the Pony Express
Tippy Lemmey
Tornado (Trophy Chapter Books)
Viking Adventure
Along Came a Dog (Harper Trophy Books)
Frindle
Henry and Ribsy
Lumber Camp Library
McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales
More Stories from Grandma's Attic (The Grandma's Attic Series)
Ralph S. Mouse
Socks
Shadrach (Harper Trophy Books)
The Toothpaste Millionaire
The Whipping Boy
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
The Hundred Dresses
A to Z Mysteries
Flight of the Phoenix (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist, Book I)
Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805 (Dover Books on Americana)
Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America
Ramona Books
Magic Treehouse books
The Boxcar Children Books
Time Warp Trio Series

Literacy Activities - Big Tracks Little Tracks

Big Tracks Little Tracks
Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1)

Whip up some Trail mix to enjoy while searching outside for animal tracks!
Match animals to their tracks with Animal track cards (Look under Zoology- Animal Tracks!)
Advanced track cards here!
Follow the track game from Curious George
Animal track matching game online -- Animal tracks web game
Website to checkout with your child -- http://www.bear-tracker.com/
Make tracks with a Potato stamp like this!

Literacy Activities- A Pair of Socks

A Pair of Socks by Stuart J. Murphy

Make a Silly Sock Puppet !
Play online - Sock It matching Web game
Reading color words Sound out word and color.
Sorting socks - great for visual discrimination.
Counting Spots on socks match sock to proper number.
Have a sock race - The person who puts on the most socks in 60 seconds wins!

Book Basket

I know that it is not always easy to get boys motivated to read. We have been lucky in that Joshua LOVES to read. But, I find it especially difficult to find books he wants to read that do not involve violence or potty humor. I can only take so many spiderman etc... books before I want to poke my eyes out!

Recently, we stumbled upon a nice compromise. They are called All Aboard Science Readers and there are several fun titles.
Gross Out! (All Aboard Science Reader)
Fake Out!: Animals That Play Tricks (All Aboard Science Reader)
Freak Out!: Animals Beyond Your Wildest Imagination (All Aboard Science Reader)
Far Out!: Animals That Do Amazing Things (All Aboard Science Reader)
Bug Out!: The World's Creepiest, Crawliest Critters (Penguin Young Readers, L3)
Maxed Out!: Gigantic Creatures from the Past (All Aboard Science Reader)
Giant Lizards: All Aboard Science Reader Station Stop 2
Black Out!: Animals That Live in the Dark (All Aboard Science Reader)
Planets (All Aboard Science Reader)
...among others!
Check them out and if you are a Costco member they currently have a set of these for $10. in the store.