For the month of November we read the book
Calico Bush by Rachel Fields. We were skeptical of this book as we started reading it, it was so similar to
The Witch of Blackbird Pond , that all I heard is "I don't want to hear about this again....we've already read a book about this type of thing." I'm sooo glad that we preserved and kept at it. It's become one of our favorites. Cailin's even re-reading it. Because of time constrains we had to move our group meeting day...and that made us read the entire book in one week. Again, this became a good thing. We had wonderful family together moments reading for an hour or more every single day.
We made shoo-fly cupcakes. Delaney loved these so much that she wanted them for FHE treat the following Monday.
One theme within the book is the concept of overcoming challenges. This was exemplified by the mountains. There were many mentions to a certain quilt pattern called
Delectable Mountains . They all created a paper quilt square using this pattern. The first picture shows them all together as a paper quilt.
I love how you read together as a family. It really does foster such wonderful conversation :)
ReplyDeleteThat paper quilt looks really fantastic. Even though I don't scrapbook like I always wanted to...we end up using all the lovely paper for school projects. Funny how things turn out...I used to guard that paper...now I'm like, "Go check the scrapbooking drawer...there might be something there you can use..."