@@SimplyLivingIt Thanks Jamie! I just ordered it, looks amazing! I’ve been on the hunt for a good devotional to teach the boys about growing up into godly men! ❤️
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow! I read it with my three now-adult children and when I saw it on my list for this term with the next batch of kids, I was SO excited that I called up the adults to come home and listen to it again :)
Reading aloud is the absolute best part of homeschooling. I do not regret any of the thousands of hours we've read aloud together. I may have driven my children batty, and made some mistakes along the way, but as adults now, they still love to talk about the books we read aloud together. :)
Roll of Thunder... is excellent. And the Vanderbeekers is on my list too! Thanks for all the other ideas. When I was teaching, Bud, Not Buddy was my favorite read aloud. We’re very excited to be diving in the Narnia series right now.
What a fantastic list! I'm working on a video about our upcoming reads as well, and I think the one I am most excited about is the Andy Serkis narrating LOTR...
We just finished the Green Ember series by S.D. Smith and really enjoyed them. We also finished up the Wild robot books by Peter Brown and loved getting to know Roz the robot. Thanks for sharing, there were a few I've not heard of before!
Thank you!! We love the Heartwood Hotel series, and a book called the Prairie Thief was so good!! There’s a few spots I had to skip with my 7 & 9 year old, because it’s set in the olden days and a character is on trial for stealing and a boy tells the girl’s father he will hang 🤭 We skipped that part and a part with a mean guardian and the rest is pure gold!! So worth it! My kids have heard it twice and hang on every word!
I’ll check out the Prairie Thief, thanks for the recommendation! FYI… Roll of Thunder has some worse parts in it that what you’re describing (about racism in the south and all that went along with that pre-civil rights), so maybe stay away from that one… My kids are a little older, so a few of these books are more mature.
Love RAR, Sara Mckenzie is awesome! We have read a many books she recommends and have fallen in love with the characters and have become a part of their families! The vanderbeekers and the penderwicks are two of our all time favorites!! Roll of thunder is also a great one and is a series which are all great! Just note that they do use the n word in this book series as that is the language that was used at the time which is sad but I like the conversations that came of it and how my kids were very concerned and socked at how people were treated due to the color of their skin and notice that most of them worked harder than a lot of the whites at the time. Thanks for sharing! Please do a review at the end of the year with star rating those are some of my favorite videos!
I’ve been binge watching your channel the past few days! I found your planning videos and love how you explain everything so clearly. Your videos are great! I’ve been homeschooling my three boys for 12 years and I do very much the same style you do, or at least did when my boys were younger. I love how you share with others this more relaxed eclectic style. We have so enjoyed our journey so far and look forward to finishing up Jr high and high school in this same relaxed and eclectic way. You are such an encourager to new homeschool families especially! 💗 Little Men is my very favorite book ever, so perfect for a homeschooling family. I read it with my middle son last year in 8th grade for our co op and we really enjoyed it. We also read Roll of Thunder, it is so poignant. My youngest read all of the of the Wing Feather Saga in a month earlier this year and adored them all. We enjoyed A Place to Hang the Moon and the Peter Nimble Series recently too. RAR is 😍!
Thank you so much for the wonderful compliment! ❤️ I’ll check into those books, I’ve heard of the ones you mentioned but haven’t read them yet. Always good when you hear about something from more than one source. 😄
Great book choices! A few are on our list, like The Vanderbeekers....just wanted to add that The Good Master is the book that comes before The Singing Tree. Both are fantastic, and not intense or too much for young ones. The Singing Tree deals with a hard topic (the war), but in a way kids can really connect with. The Good Master is so funny as you learn how Kate came to live with Jancsi's family and all her mischievous antics! ;)
Mysterious Howling! That's such a cute book! I'll have to add that into our rotation. I read it years ago when my kids were in preschool, and now I know they will love it.
My kids (5,7,9) all enjoyed listening to My Side of the mountain by Jean Craighead George. Not too big of a book but very fun for boys amd girls who love survival stuff. A young boy leaves home in the city to survive on his own in the wilderness for a year. Two sequels follow also, planning on reading them next.
Love this list! Thanks very much. Could you do a similar video on independent reader book recommendations? I have a 5th grader this year and would really like some ideas on quality books he can read to himself.
Thanks for your list! I’m so excited to read some of these we haven’t gotten to yet. We read the whole Incorrigible Children series (well, audiobooked) and the kids loved them! We recommend the audio if you’re into that sorta style.
Oh my goodness! You’re going to have such a great year, great picks!! We have 4 kids too so we have sought out books with big families. We’ve done penderwicks, moffats, vanderbeekers, melendys and loved them all. We are on book 3 of the wing feather books, so so good.
We have many of these on our list too! I’m excited to read Little Women and Little Men with mine this year. I think Hatchet is going to be a good one since I have a house of boys who love to explore outside and learning survival skills will be sparked even more so by it
Just discovered your channel and loving it. Just added your books to our book list. We love books about large families- Encouragable Children, Vanderbeekers, Penderwicks,
We are starting with Brandon Mull’s The Candy Shop Wars. My oldest kiddos LOVED this book and now I am reading it to my youngest. 💕👍🏻👍🏻 This book is definitely a family favorite!!
I am just starting this video and I am a little scared…I love books and every time I watch one of your videos I feel compelled to buy something because you have such great suggestions! I am sure I will be running to Amazon after this video..Thanks for sharing!
Francis Xavier was the first missionary to arrive in India. He arrived in Goa on May 6, 1542. He was the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times who was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity in India. :)
Oh!! Really good read aloud we are reading right now is Howl's moving castle. My kids are absolutely enthralled-- I haven't seen the anime movie but I'm thinking of maybe having a movie night after we finish it. 🍿🍿This is a stellar list! I'm adding some of these suggestions. 💕💕
If you have the audiobook available to you at your library for "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place", it is worth going that route. The books are great, but we started it on audiobook when we were doing swim team one summer and the lady that does them is fantastic. It was hard to read the last one (that one was not available on audio at our library), because I can't do the voices and accents justice. :) I keep seeing that Wingfeather series and have it on my Thrift Books wish list. I am seriously thinking I need to squeeze that one in this year!
Do any of these have magic (white or black), witches, wizzards, spells, or anything like that? I kinda steer away from that, and these books sound good and I’m wondering.
Pretty sure Circus Mirandus does. Little Men, Roll of Thunder, The Twenty-One Balloons, The Singing Tree, and William Carey definitely do NOT. I haven’t read the others yet so I’m not 100% sure on those. Perhaps some other viewers that have read them can comment?
Erin have you seen the Well-Educated Heart booklists? And she has lots or books she’s reprinted from before 1924 that are in public domain so you can get the ebook versions free or you can buy physical copies.
How do you do read alouds... Do you read 1 book til its finished? Do you read multiple and just alternate every day? How much time do you spend daily on read alouds? This is my 2nd year homeschooling and i also work part time at home. My time is pretty flexible but still need to manage properly so i can get everything done. I really want to incorporate MORE books this year! I love reading and i really want my kids to have the same love for reading as i do! Any help in how to "plan" this in would be greatly appreciated. Also, are the Christian Heroes then and now books appropriate for all ages? I have 3 kiddoes but only homeschooling 2 of them, they are going into 2nd grade and kindergarten.
We often have 2 going at a time, one fun one for our afternoon read aloud time when the kids have their afternoon snack, and one that is more literature/biography that might align with our history lessons that we would do in the morning with our family time lessons. Sometimes one of them might be on audio that we only listen to when we are in the car or eating lunch. It really depends on how much time I feel like we have. And we don’t always do them every day. If there are other pressing things that are more important, we do that instead. We usually only read 1 chapter per book at a time, unless the chapters are short and the kids want me to keep going. Some of the Christian Heroes books cover some heavy subjects that were part of life for the missionaries (death of a child, persecution, etc) so the content would depend on what you feel like would be appropriate for your children. I would suggest starting with George Mueller. We all loved that one (including my daughter who was 4 at the time).
@@TheEclecticHomeschooler Thank you so much! i do have read alouds for a family subjects (Science and History) but i wanted to incorporate more "fun" books :). Do you have a homeschool "schedule" that you follow. like you start at such time and end at a certain time? do you have set times set for each subject that you try to stick to?
@@suziekuhn8857 Nope! We use block scheduling. You can see what our normal daily routine looks like in this video. ruclips.net/video/qaOqxhFuE0c/видео.html
My girls are obsessed with the Wingfeather Saga. We are on book 3 and there is no way they’ll let me switch to any other books until we finish the series. It is pretty intense and there is at least one heartbreaking part so it might be too much for a sensitive kiddo.
What would you recommend for read alouds for 12 yo girls just pulled out of public school? Neither are reading at grade level, both groan when reading time starts -sigh- I know it will get better with time, as listening to challenging vocabulary if you're not accustomed to hearing it can be frustrating. (I am homeschooling them, they are not my children)
My only girl is 5, so I can’t speak from personal experience with girls that age yet. But, Sarah Mackenzie has great book lists! Here’s a link to a list for books girls love on Read Aloud Revival. readaloudrevival.com/series/04-girls/
It's so hard to wait till my children are the appropriate ages for some books. I want to read The Wingfeather Saga but I know we needs about two more years for everyone to be ready. I'm excited for my boys to Heartwood Hotel this fall. I think it'll be the perfect bedtime story. Our goal this fall is to read all the books on our shelves. We don't need more till we've read what we have, but that's hard 😆
Your descriptions and enthusiasm is awesome but there is no list of them in the description and you wave the books around sooo much I had to take atleast 10 screen shots each time to try get a good shot and even then your fingers covering part of the name.. I gave up after book 3 😪
Roll of thunder hear my cry is very good but might be too intense for your younger two children. A man gets killed when his shop is robbed and there are a lot of intense racial conflicts.
What book are you most looking forward to reading this year?
@Enchanted Homeschool Oohh! I haven’t heard of that one! Thanks for the suggestion!
We are loving Boyhood and Beyond!!!! ❤
@@SimplyLivingIt Thanks Jamie! I just ordered it, looks amazing! I’ve been on the hunt for a good devotional to teach the boys about growing up into godly men! ❤️
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow! I read it with my three now-adult children and when I saw it on my list for this term with the next batch of kids, I was SO excited that I called up the adults to come home and listen to it again :)
@@gobigandgohomeschool4882 Love that! I’ll add it to my TBR list!
Reading aloud is the absolute best part of homeschooling. I do not regret any of the thousands of hours we've read aloud together. I may have driven my children batty, and made some mistakes along the way, but as adults now, they still love to talk about the books we read aloud together. :)
Oh Little Men is one of my absolute favorite!! Beautiful choices.
I’m so excited to read it! I loved Little Women!
Currently we are reading Pages and Co. The Book Wanderers. We have been enjoying it.
I’ve not heard of that one, I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!
I love book recommendations! These are great- thanks!!
Hey friend! 👋🏼 😄
We are reading through the Growly series right now for our read-aloud and we've also been reading the Little House series. Great book recommendations!
We did Little House a few years ago! So fun!
The wingfeather saga is so good!
My kids really enjoyed it!
Roll of Thunder... is excellent. And the Vanderbeekers is on my list too! Thanks for all the other ideas. When I was teaching, Bud, Not Buddy was my favorite read aloud. We’re very excited to be diving in the Narnia series right now.
Good to hear! We did Bud, Not Buddy a couple years ago and really enjoyed that as well as Narnia! Hope you love that series!
I would love a video update at some point for how you and your kids liked each of the books! Thanks for sharing!
Super keen on Little Men, thank you for sharing
We love love love the Incorrigible children series. We have listened to it so many times on audio. It’s well done on audio as well.
What a fantastic list! I'm working on a video about our upcoming reads as well, and I think the one I am most excited about is the Andy Serkis narrating LOTR...
Oh I bet that will be great! He did so amazing as Gollum!
I have never read any of these! Can’t wait to hear updates on them :)
We just finished the Green Ember series by S.D. Smith and really enjoyed them. We also finished up the Wild robot books by Peter Brown and loved getting to know Roz the robot. Thanks for sharing, there were a few I've not heard of before!
We really enjoyed William Carey. We finished it last school year.
Added some more to my list! (We also read "21 Balloons" when my oldest was in 1st and are planning to read it again!
Thank you!! We love the Heartwood Hotel series, and a book called the Prairie Thief was so good!! There’s a few spots I had to skip with my 7 & 9 year old, because it’s set in the olden days and a character is on trial for stealing and a boy tells the girl’s father he will hang 🤭 We skipped that part and a part with a mean guardian and the rest is pure gold!! So worth it! My kids have heard it twice and hang on every word!
I’ll check out the Prairie Thief, thanks for the recommendation! FYI… Roll of Thunder has some worse parts in it that what you’re describing (about racism in the south and all that went along with that pre-civil rights), so maybe stay away from that one… My kids are a little older, so a few of these books are more mature.
Love RAR, Sara Mckenzie is awesome! We have read a many books she recommends and have fallen in love with the characters and have become a part of their families! The vanderbeekers and the penderwicks are two of our all time favorites!! Roll of thunder is also a great one and is a series which are all great! Just note that they do use the n word in this book series as that is the language that was used at the time which is sad but I like the conversations that came of it and how my kids were very concerned and socked at how people were treated due to the color of their skin and notice that most of them worked harder than a lot of the whites at the time. Thanks for sharing! Please do a review at the end of the year with star rating those are some of my favorite videos!
I appreciate this video so much. My son LOVES TO READ. I am always looking for good books for him. Thank you!
We absolutely LOVE the Wingfeather series. We will be reading book 3 this school year. My kids begged for more after every reading!
These are so great choices. We have read the Vanderbeakers it was all really good. Roll of thunder is on our read aloud list this year too 😊
We just read the first of the wingfeather saga and loved it!
I’ve been binge watching your channel the past few days! I found your planning videos and love how you explain everything so clearly. Your videos are great! I’ve been homeschooling my three boys for 12 years and I do very much the same style you do, or at least did when my boys were younger. I love how you share with others this more relaxed eclectic style. We have so enjoyed our journey so far and look forward to finishing up Jr high and high school in this same relaxed and eclectic way. You are such an encourager to new homeschool families especially! 💗
Little Men is my very favorite book ever, so perfect for a homeschooling family. I read it with my middle son last year in 8th grade for our co op and we really enjoyed it. We also read Roll of Thunder, it is so poignant. My youngest read all of the of the Wing Feather Saga in a month earlier this year and adored them all. We enjoyed A Place to Hang the Moon and the Peter Nimble Series recently too. RAR is 😍!
Thank you so much for the wonderful compliment! ❤️ I’ll check into those books, I’ve heard of the ones you mentioned but haven’t read them yet. Always good when you hear about something from more than one source. 😄
Great book choices! A few are on our list, like The Vanderbeekers....just wanted to add that The Good Master is the book that comes before The Singing Tree. Both are fantastic, and not intense or too much for young ones. The Singing Tree deals with a hard topic (the war), but in a way kids can really connect with. The Good Master is so funny as you learn how Kate came to live with Jancsi's family and all her mischievous antics! ;)
Good to know, thanks! ☺️
You will love the Wingfeather saga!!!!
Mysterious Howling! That's such a cute book! I'll have to add that into our rotation. I read it years ago when my kids were in preschool, and now I know they will love it.
Oh fun! Good to know!
My kids (5,7,9) all enjoyed listening to My Side of the mountain by Jean Craighead George. Not too big of a book but very fun for boys amd girls who love survival stuff.
A young boy leaves home in the city to survive on his own in the wilderness for a year. Two sequels follow also, planning on reading them next.
We read that one a couple years ago to go along with a foraging unit! We loved it!
Love this list! Thanks very much. Could you do a similar video on independent reader book recommendations? I have a 5th grader this year and would really like some ideas on quality books he can read to himself.
Here you go! 😉 ruclips.net/video/THyiP3oFWYo/видео.html
@@TheEclecticHomeschooler yes! Thank you!!!!!
Thanks for your list! I’m so excited to read some of these we haven’t gotten to yet. We read the whole Incorrigible Children series (well, audiobooked) and the kids loved them! We recommend the audio if you’re into that sorta style.
We love audio books!
Oh my goodness! You’re going to have such a great year, great picks!! We have 4 kids too so we have sought out books with big families. We’ve done penderwicks, moffats, vanderbeekers, melendys and loved them all. We are on book 3 of the wing feather books, so so good.
Oh yay! Happy to hear you have enjoyed some of the books I chose! ❤️
Could you show us your homeschool corner behind you?! Love it😍😍😍
Yes! I’m going to do a Homeschool Room Tour video soon!
The William Carey book is so so good!
Oh yay! So glad to hear that!!
Great selection most of your choices are on my list. Loved little women didn't know there was a little men
We have many of these on our list too! I’m excited to read Little Women and Little Men with mine this year. I think Hatchet is going to be a good one since I have a house of boys who love to explore outside and learning survival skills will be sparked even more so by it
Fun! We have Hatchet sitting on the shelf but we haven’t done that one yet. I’m thinking it might be a good silent reading book for my outdoorsy boy!
I just added so many to my wish list for this year! Thank you.
Just discovered your channel and loving it. Just added your books to our book list. We love books about large families- Encouragable Children, Vanderbeekers, Penderwicks,
We are starting with Brandon Mull’s The Candy Shop Wars. My oldest kiddos LOVED this book and now I am reading it to my youngest. 💕👍🏻👍🏻 This book is definitely a family favorite!!
Thanks for the recommendation!
Loved the suggestions and your enthusiasm for them! 🙂 Thanks for the website suggestion to Sarah MacKenzie's booklist too! 💕
Oh, and our family's favorite read aloud from last school year were The Very Very Far North by Dan Bar-El and The Worst Christmas Pageant Ever.
@@thaselhuhn I haven’t heard of those! I’ll check them out, thanks for sharing!
I am just starting this video and I am a little scared…I love books and every time I watch one of your videos I feel compelled to buy something because you have such great suggestions! I am sure I will be running to Amazon after this video..Thanks for sharing!
Haha! I’m the same when I watch other people’s videos like these! 😅
We are reading The Wild Robot book you suggested in your last video. It's amazing!
You should try ready "The Cay" it's a 2 part book and it's great for a geography lesson.
Yes! My husband read both to our boys a few years ago. They loved them!
Francis Xavier was the first missionary to arrive in India. He arrived in Goa on May 6, 1542. He was the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times who was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity in India. :)
We did the incorrigible children a few years ago on audio.
We are reading the wing feather saga as a family read aloud. The first book wasn’t too scary or over the top for our 4 year old!
I'm interested to hear how you like the books. The Wingfeather book wasn't my favourite but I loved The Singing Tree.
Oh you have piqued my interest! The Vanderbeekers have been on my shortlist for a while. ❤ LOVE Sarah Mackenzie!!!!
Oh!! Really good read aloud we are reading right now is Howl's moving castle. My kids are absolutely enthralled-- I haven't seen the anime movie but I'm thinking of maybe having a movie night after we finish it. 🍿🍿This is a stellar list! I'm adding some of these suggestions. 💕💕
Super fun! Love watching the movie after reading a book when there is one!
If you have the audiobook available to you at your library for "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place", it is worth going that route. The books are great, but we started it on audiobook when we were doing swim team one summer and the lady that does them is fantastic. It was hard to read the last one (that one was not available on audio at our library), because I can't do the voices and accents justice. :) I keep seeing that Wingfeather series and have it on my Thrift Books wish list. I am seriously thinking I need to squeeze that one in this year!
Great tip! Thanks!
Do any of these have magic (white or black), witches, wizzards, spells, or anything like that? I kinda steer away from that, and these books sound good and I’m wondering.
Pretty sure Circus Mirandus does. Little Men, Roll of Thunder, The Twenty-One Balloons, The Singing Tree, and William Carey definitely do NOT.
I haven’t read the others yet so I’m not 100% sure on those. Perhaps some other viewers that have read them can comment?
@@TheEclecticHomeschooler thank you!
Erin have you seen the Well-Educated Heart booklists? And she has lots or books she’s reprinted from before 1924 that are in public domain so you can get the ebook versions free or you can buy physical copies.
I haven’t! Thanks for the tip!
How do you do read alouds... Do you read 1 book til its finished? Do you read multiple and just alternate every day? How much time do you spend daily on read alouds? This is my 2nd year homeschooling and i also work part time at home. My time is pretty flexible but still need to manage properly so i can get everything done. I really want to incorporate MORE books this year! I love reading and i really want my kids to have the same love for reading as i do! Any help in how to "plan" this in would be greatly appreciated. Also, are the Christian Heroes then and now books appropriate for all ages? I have 3 kiddoes but only homeschooling 2 of them, they are going into 2nd grade and kindergarten.
We often have 2 going at a time, one fun one for our afternoon read aloud time when the kids have their afternoon snack, and one that is more literature/biography that might align with our history lessons that we would do in the morning with our family time lessons. Sometimes one of them might be on audio that we only listen to when we are in the car or eating lunch. It really depends on how much time I feel like we have. And we don’t always do them every day. If there are other pressing things that are more important, we do that instead. We usually only read 1 chapter per book at a time, unless the chapters are short and the kids want me to keep going. Some of the Christian Heroes books cover some heavy subjects that were part of life for the missionaries (death of a child, persecution, etc) so the content would depend on what you feel like would be appropriate for your children. I would suggest starting with George Mueller. We all loved that one (including my daughter who was 4 at the time).
@@TheEclecticHomeschooler Thank you so much! i do have read alouds for a family subjects (Science and History) but i wanted to incorporate more "fun" books :). Do you have a homeschool "schedule" that you follow. like you start at such time and end at a certain time? do you have set times set for each subject that you try to stick to?
@@suziekuhn8857 Nope! We use block scheduling. You can see what our normal daily routine looks like in this video. ruclips.net/video/qaOqxhFuE0c/видео.html
@@TheEclecticHomeschooler thank you! im watching as we speak :)
My girls are obsessed with the Wingfeather Saga. We are on book 3 and there is no way they’ll let me switch to any other books until we finish the series. It is pretty intense and there is at least one heartbreaking part so it might be too much for a sensitive kiddo.
Love to hear that! I was thinking that might be the case so we will have to see for my daughter… 🤔
There's a movie called little men
What would you recommend for read alouds for 12 yo girls just pulled out of public school? Neither are reading at grade level, both groan when reading time starts -sigh- I know it will get better with time, as listening to challenging vocabulary if you're not accustomed to hearing it can be frustrating. (I am homeschooling them, they are not my children)
My only girl is 5, so I can’t speak from personal experience with girls that age yet. But, Sarah Mackenzie has great book lists! Here’s a link to a list for books girls love on Read Aloud Revival. readaloudrevival.com/series/04-girls/
Do you have your 5th and 7th graders and maybe even your 3rd grader do any writing or outlines or anything along with the books?
Not normally for read aloud books. They do for their independent chapter books. ☺️
It's so hard to wait till my children are the appropriate ages for some books. I want to read The Wingfeather Saga but I know we needs about two more years for everyone to be ready.
I'm excited for my boys to Heartwood Hotel this fall. I think it'll be the perfect bedtime story. Our goal this fall is to read all the books on our shelves. We don't need more till we've read what we have, but that's hard 😆
Your descriptions and enthusiasm is awesome but there is no list of them in the description and you wave the books around sooo much I had to take atleast 10 screen shots each time to try get a good shot and even then your fingers covering part of the name.. I gave up after book 3 😪
The books are all there, you have to click the little arrow just to the right of the video title and scroll down. ☺️
Roll of thunder hear my cry is very good but might be too intense for your younger two children. A man gets killed when his shop is robbed and there are a lot of intense racial conflicts.