Breyer Stablemates

I still like to work with Delaney 1 on 1 with her reading aloud to me and me helping her with her word attack skills. Again...she is on a horse kick, so I have her reading the Breyer Stablemates series. These are small chapter books...around 40 pages each with a color illustration on every few pages. They are written on an upper second grade reading level, so its too hard for her to read on her own, but hard enough that I can help her on words she doesn't know.

They are fun little books that focus on horses and good morals like responsibility, friendship, self discipline, etc. They won't be winning any awards anytime soon, but both of my girls and my niece Emily have loved them, so they are definitely worth trying out with a girl grades 1 -3.

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa

Delaney has been dreaming of her own horse for quite sometime. Since we know that is NOT going to happen anytime soon, I try to feed that wish with books about horses. She just got finished reading 3 books about Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa by Erica Silverman, illustrated by Betsy Lewin (the same illustrator that gave us the click clack moo series) These are very easy chapter books about a little girl and her pony. They are on Audible as well. She has been wondering around the house with a cowgirl costume on...decorated her side table, and enjoying the tales of cocoa!

Cleopatra...

As a family, we are now going through The Royal Diaries Cleopatra. Its a great one...this is the first one Todd has really enjoyed :-) Kaytlynn has been fascinated with the Queen of the Nile for quite some time...its who she was for Halloween a couple of years ago. We have not read it nightly like we usually do, because we have been so sick around here, but really are enjoying it. So much so, that I bought the whole series off of ebay!