Last year I made a list of the books we’d read together as a family, and I was disappointed at how few books we’d actually done. My vision for homeschooling is centered around reading aloud as a family, so this was an area that I wanted to improve on over this past year! I feel like we read a lot more together in Iowa, but looking at this list, we did a bit more chapter book reading and a lot more reading picture books to the little girls. (An * means we listened to the audiobook together.)
Chapter Books I Read with the Kids 2017-2018
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Madeleine Takes Command *
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
Farmer Boy
The Children of Green Knowe *
The Sign of the Beaver *
The Matchlock Gun *
Secret Water *
The Big Six *
Ben and Me
Mr. Revere and I
Calico Captive *
Johnny Tremain *
The Winter of the Red Snow
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Tom Sawyer *
Eight Cousins *
Rose in Bloom *
Zia
By the Great Horn Spoon! *
Patty Reed’s Doll
The Adventures of Lewis and Clark
The Story of the World: Early Modern Times *
Al Capone Does My Shirts *
The Cruise of the Arctic Star (this was the only dud in the whole lot!)
Al Capone Shines My Shoes *
Al Capone Does My Homework *
The Princess and the Goblin *
The Princess and Curdie *
Mother Carey’s Chickens *
Streams to the River, Rivers to the Sea
The Story of Dr. Dolittle *
Derek also read aloud to the kids:
The Boxcar Children
Surprise Island
The Yellow House Mystery
Also in process (but not completed yet): Hitty: Her First Hundred Years, The Cottage at Bantry Bay, Minn of the Mississippi, The Mitchells: Five For Victory