Yellow Ball by Molly Bang Before FIAR Yellow Ball is ideal for toddlers and preschoolers (ages 2-4). Children of all ages will also enjoy this story. Like many families, one of our favorite vacation spots is at the beach! Yellow Ball by Molly Bang is a poignant story incorporating children on both sides of the ocean […]
Letter of the week with Before Five in a Row books is a popular way to expand learning for toddler, preschooler, and kindergarten age children. Before Five in a Row Guides Whenever someone asks me which ‘curriculum’ I used when I started homeschooling, I recommend they spend lots of time reading and playing. And then […]
Putting together a The Carrot Seed go along book basket is perfect for enhancing your Before Five in a Row literature study. When a little boy plants a carrot seed, everyone tells him it won’t grow. But when you are very young, there are some things that you just know, and the little boy knows that one […]
Putting together a The Runaway Bunny go along book basket is perfect for enhancing your Before Five in a Row literature study. A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. “If you […]
Putting together a Goodnight Moon go along book basket is perfect for enhancing your Before Five in a Row literature study. Do you create book baskets at the beginning of each row? Book baskets are a great way to rotate your children’s books, keep library books together, or set the stage for a fun week […]
Fun Ways to Use a Calendar Even in this day of electronic wonder, where your Google Calendar syncs with your Zoom meeting invitations and sends messages to your iPhone, it’s still effective and fun to have a calendar you can print out and write on. There’s something satisfying about writing down and crossing off our […]
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss Summary of The Carrot Seed Title The Carrot Seed Author Ruth Krauss Illustrator Crockett Johnson Copyright 1945 Five in a Row Resource Before Five in a Row All individual Before Five in a Row book titles that are available through Amazon.com can be found at the Treasure Hunt Mommies […]
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown illustrated by Clement Hurd Summary of The Runaway Bunny Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. No matter how or where he decided to hop, his mother is always there – for she loved her little bunny very much. The classic bed-time story can also […]
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd Before FIAR Goodnight Moon is ideal for toddlers and preschoolers (ages 2-4). Like many families, Goodnight Moon was one of our favorite bedtime stories before and for a long time after we started rowing books with Five in a Row during our homeschool journey. Summary […]
Why we love these books My son and I began our homeschooling journey using Before FIAR and Five in a Row. We snuggled up together and read books which have become lifetime favorites. Then I shared my love of the FIAR learning style with 100’s of children over several summers during library time at summer […]