Heroine's Club...

Jennifer Jarrett, or if you grew up in Mill Creek like I did, Jennifer Bradbury did a homeschool book club for girls called "Heroine's Club" for the 2011/12 school year. It was all the way in Mill Creek (a 75 minute drive) by my folks' house and was held every other Friday. Friday. Worst traffic day. 2:30-4:00...Yes...nap time. Friday at nap time 75 minutes from home. Thankfully, it was Ruby and Alice's favorite thing we did with groups this year. They loooooved it. (If you are reading this thinking, "no they didn't" it is probably because you are either my mom or my sister-in-law, Heather. Once Heather's cute family relocated from E. WA and moved temporarily in with my folks, it was like separating mama bear from her cubs...my kids would rather stare at a blank wall with their cousins than go to Disneyland with their friends. Okay, probably not quite that dramatic...but they really, really love their cousins.)

Jennifer did a great job of planning fun activities for the kids. Each month was a different book...
October: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, November: Little House in the Big Woods, January: Charlotte’s Web, February: Heidi, March: A Little Princess, April: The Wizard of Oz, May: The Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang (Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Goldilocks, and Snow White and Rose-red). The meetings started with the girls bringing a "focus item" that reminded them of the book or correlated somehow. They would share their item and talk about how it tied in with the book and then they would have a narration (report) given by one girl (Ruby did hers on Little House in the Big Woods" and Alice was on "Wizard of Oz". After that they would discuss a little more and then do an activity. They learned to finger knit, they made bread, they embroidered, visited an assisted living home with valentine's in hand, had a tea party, etc.

At the end of the year, the girls were in a play based on one of the fairy tales we read, "Twelve Dancing Princesses". It was cute and short and sweet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I loved reading with my girls and reading books with such interesting and inspiring heroines!