Magazines For Kids

My amazing list of links to magazines for kids:

1. American Girl – for girls ages 8-12
2. Appleseeds – ages 8-11
3. ASK – ages 7-10
4. Babybug – ages 0-2
5. Boomerang (Audio Magazine) – family
6. Boy’s Life – ages 8-14
7. Boys’ Quest – ages 6-14
8. Calliope – ages 9+
9. Chickadee – ages 6-9
10. Chirp – ages 3-6
11. Click – ages 3-7
12. Cicada –  ages 12+
13. Clubhouse – ages 8-12
14. Clubhouse Junior – ages 3-7
15. Cobblestone – ages 9+
16. Creation Illustrated – family
17. Creative Kids – ages 8-14
18. Cricket –  ages 9+
19. Crinkles – ages 7-12
20. Dig – ages 9+
21. Discovery Girls – ages 8+
22. Discovery Magazine – ages 8-12
23. Dolphin – family
24. Early Edition ages 3-6
25. Faces – ages 9+
26. Fun For Kidz – ages 5-13
27. High Five – ages 3-5
28. Highlights – ages 6-12
29. Homeschool Sports Insider – family
30. Hopscotch For Girls – ages 6-12
31. Humpty Dumpty – ages 5-7
32. Jack And Jill – ages 8-12
33. Just For Fun – ages 5+
34. Kids Discover – ages 7-12
35. KNOW – ages 6-9
36. Ladybug – ages 2-6
37. Learning Through History – ages 10+
38. Muse –  ages 9+
39. National Geographic Kids – ages 6-14
40. National Geographic Little Kids – ages 3-6
41. Nature Friend – all ages
42. News Current – ages  8-12
43. Odyssey – ages 9+
44. Owl – ages 9-13
45. Plays – all ages
46. Ranger Rick – ages 7+
47. Skipping Stones – all ages
48. Spider –  ages 6-9
49. Sports Illustrated For Kids – ages 8+
50. Stone Soup – ages 8-13
51. Taking Off – ages 6-8
52. Time For Kids – all ages
53. Top Story – ages 12-15
54. Turtle – ages 3-5
55. Wild Animal Baby – ages 1-4
56. World – ages 15+
57. YES Mag – ages 10-15
58. Your Big Back Yard – ages 3-7
59. Zoobies – ages 0-2
60. Zootles – ages 2-6
61. Zoobooks – ages 6-12

Do you know of any magazines for kids that are not listed here? Please leave a note in the comments and I will consider including it here.

What is your favorite magazine for kids?

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Mountain Born

We finished reading Mountain Born.

The kids really connected with this book. It was a different kind of read for us, but really good. The language was challenging and stretched us. The topics were deep and we had much discussion about life and death.

My husband and I were amazed at the symbolism the author included. We can’t wait to read more of her works. She has written over 40 books.

If you are wanting to do more with this book, here is a collection of resources that you might find useful.

Resources for studying Mountain Born.

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Gooney Bird Greene

We just finished Gooney Bird Greene and absolutely loved it. The kids begged daddy to keep reading more and more each night and even I didn’t want daddy to stop reading. He used funny voices and made the story that much more entertaining.

I was thrilled to discover that Lois Lowry has more books in this series. There are now four books (and I hope there will someday be more). The first book covered many things including the parts of a story (beginning, middle, and end). The next three books cover words, fables, and poetry. I can’t wait to get them and read them aloud to the children.

If you are planning on reading this book (which, I highly recommend that you do) here are some resources for you.

Lois Lowry

This is the author’s own website.

Lois Lowry

Here is a short write up at scholastic about the author.

Book and Author Literature Guide For Gooney Bird Greene

Check out this link if you are looking for some interesting ways to study this book .

Book Discussion of Gooney Bird Greene

This page has some great questions to discuss when reading this book.

Gooney Bird Green

A short audio (by the author) about the books.

Story Telling With Gooney Bird Green

This is a wonderful article about the book.

~Other Useful Resources ~

Grammar: Paragraphs

This page has a large amount of links to useful resources for studying about paragraphs.

Literature: Story Elements

This page has a great collection of resources for use when writing stories.

If you have read this book, I would love to hear your comments.

What books have you read lately that you loved?

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Penguins, Penguins, Everywhere

I have been making some penguin things recently and I have seen people mentioning them on their blogs.

I created The Penguin Path back in December and had a lot of fun trying my hand at graphic design. Spesamor Academy mentioned me in her post titled Penguins Part One and shows a picture of her children using the game board.

My first download of 2010 was Penguin Learns The Alphabet. My second download of this year was Penguin Learns -at Words. These two downloads were tons of work to make, but loads of fun. Cariann over at Unionvale mentioned me in her post -at word games.

I have some more fun ideas for Penguins that will be showing up soon.

I would love to hear what else you would like to see – leave me a note in the comments and I’ll see what I can do.

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Reading Resources

I was asked yesterday for some basic phonics and reading resources. Here are some of the best resources that I have found. I have included a short note under each link so that you can determine the appropriateness for your own family.

Starfall

This is a link to the free download center at Starfall. If you like the activities on the website, these compliment them perfectly. Here is a link to Starfall’s home page.

Alphabet Set 1

This set of worksheets from Beginning Reading will help your child work on their letters. They are very simple.

Alphabet Set 2

This is another set of worksheets from Beginning Reading to help your child work on their letters.

Alphabet Set 3

This set of worksheets from Beginning Reading has some beginning letter identifying.

Alphabet Set 4

This set of worksheets from Beginning Reading has you selecting the correct beginning letter.

Alphabet Set 5

This is another set of worksheets from Beginning Reading and has you choosing the correct beginning letter.

Word Formation Cards

A set of 12 collections of letter cards from Beginning Reading to help your young learners build words.

Free Phonics Worksheets

This is one of my favorite collections of phonics worksheets. There are two volumes on this one page. They cover tons of phonics and reading instruction. Have a look at this one for sure.

Phonics Printabe Worksheets and Activities

This is a nice collection of Word Family resources from Kidzone.

Free Phonics and Reading Worksheets

This page has a nice collection of Short Vowel, Long Vowel, and Consonant Blends worksheets.

Letters and Sounds

SparkleBox has an amazing collection of resources for literacy and beginning reading. I  also wanted to let you know that they have tons of other resources on their website too.

First Grade Language Arts

TLS Books has an excellent collection of worksheets. Scroll down to find the Language Arts section. I would also highly recommend visiting other ares of this site if you have children in other grades.

Blends Boulevard

This web page from Carl’s Corner has tons of resources for when you are learning to blend words.

Digraph Drive

This web page from Carl’s Corner has tons of resources for when you are learning about digraphs.

Sight Word Booklets

This page from Hubbard’s Cupboard has a large collection of sight word booklets that you can print out. I love Hubbard’s Cupboard.

Word Family Booklets

This page from Hubbard’s Cupboard has a large collection of word family booklets that you can print out.

Word Family Workbooks

This web page has 30 different printable workbooks for use when you are working with word families with a (for example ab, ace, and ack) .

Word Family Workbooks

This web page has 21 different printable workbooks for use when you are working with word families with e (for example et, ead, en). Each word family has its own workbook.

KizClub

This web page has  large collection of really amazing printables. If you click on the link Phonics, it will take you to a page with some fun printables. If you look at the left hand side of this page (the phonics one) you will see more choices: Consonant Sounds, Vowel Sounds, Blends/Digraphs, Rhymes, and Word Study. Each of these pages also has some wonderful printables for use when your child is learning to read.

Rhyme A Week

This website has a large collection of printables for use when studying word families. Click on the link that says Thirty Featured A-Rhyme-A-Week Units and Downloadables and it will take you to a section of the page where the weekly units are located. If you scroll down just a little bit on this page then you will see the beginning of the word family sets. If you go back to the main section and click on Thirty Featured Rimes and Rhymes you will see more resources that would be useful in studying word families.

Word Families

This web page has lists of words for each word family.

Mrs. Alphabet

This web page has lists of words for each word family.

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All of these resources will be added to the Homeschool4Free section of my website (under English Resources).

If you have any other printables or resources for learning to read, please share them in the comments.

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