The Gammons Fam

It's been a while since I've posted on the books that we are reading.  This one has been so good that I had to write about it.  Ro...

I posted about what I have been thinking about the boys and their futures last week.  Last night we were reading our latest read aloud ...

We finished Where the Red Fern Grows  last night at about 10:00.  When we got close to the end we just had to keep going.  There was not a d...

Where were you when you read . . .?  There are few books that have this kind of impact.  I can distinctly remember reading the last few chap...

Paddle to the Sea  by Holling C. Holling is a great book, especially if you grew up on the shores of one of the Great Lakes like I did.  Our...

We've now passed through the Revolutionary War and have move on to the early years of the United States of America in our read alouds.  ...

After reading Johnny Tremain , Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady just didn't compare.  While it's an interesting story a you...

Gregg and Allison got us The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook .  America's Test Kitchen is one of our favorite PBS shows and ...

As I've stated before, this year's read alouds are mostly historical fiction centered around American history.  I have really enjoye...

I'm a little behind on my read aloud reviews.  We finished The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare back in the fall.  Sh...

Tonight we will finish our second read aloud from this year's curriculum list.  The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare has b...

We have begun our home school curriculum read alouds for the year.  The kids and I are really enjoying them.  As I've stated before, we ...

At the end of the last edition of the The Borrowers we found Pod, Homily and Arrietty having to flee their home because then had been ...

We've finished all of our home school read aloud books for the year so we are on to some that my mom has passed along.  We just finished...

We have listened to The Cricket in Time Square  and even watched the cartoon movie.  We had never read the book though.  It's well writ...

Our last book was a great one.  It was about a young man who wanted to become a great painter.  Caleb loved it from page one.  The Apprentic...

I am currently listening to the audiobook of Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss.  I am loving it.  A year or so ago we watched the ...

The last book we read, Kildee House by Rutheford G. Montgomery, was a great one.  It is the story of Jerome Kildee, a former head stone make...

We just finished another great read aloud entitled, Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski.  It is the story of two feuding families in the pioneer...

I have not written about any read alouds for a long time because we had been engrossed in this book for months.  I have saved a few of the ...