Ahhhh, Monday. Another work day. 
But lesson plans are mostly written out and Princess of the Universe seems to be getting over her cold.
There are a few things I wanted to write about this morning.
First of all, Steve Lambert, publisher of Five In A Row curriculum.
Many in the homeschooling community already know about this as The Old Schoolhouse magazine sent out a note to subscribers a couple of days ago. I wanted to mention it here too. Steve Lambert just underwent surgery to release pressure from his skull after taking a fall not too long ago. The good news is that the surgery appears to have been successful and Mr. Lambert is on the road to a full recovery. I just feel that this would be a good time, if you haven’t already, to purchase something from Five In A Row. There’s no way I can say in one blog post how much Five In A Row has enriched our homeschool experience. Five In A Row offers a variety of products, including beautiful Five In A Row manuals as well as digital downloads. How timely that they have a Black History Month Fold-N-Learn and a Valentine’s Day Fold-N-Learn that you can download! Why don’t you look around their site and see what you can find to buy? I will be making some purchases this month. No, the Lamberts didn’t ask for this, I just know the integrity that the Lamberts have and how they — for years — have provided mesage boards to the Five In A Row family, keeping them ad-free and really, as the forum says, like a “family room.” They are self-employed as publishers, and I cannot imagine that it would hurt one bit to purchase something from them right now. I know first-hand that hospitalizations and surgeries aren’t cheap. I also know first-hand how great their curriculum is!
A photograph from last April. I hope you don’t mind.
Second, in light of February being Black History Month, our copywork this week will include some poetry by Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. “Incident” by Countee Cullen breaks my heart.
Last of all, we are moving on from Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho
I think for our rowing this week we’ll revisit a wonderful book, Follow the Drinking Gourd
Lynn
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Dear Lynn,
Thank you for this post-I just ordered a Five in a Row book on Amazon, because I was already there buying other books, but I’ll have to go visit their site.
I’m glad the surgery went well for him.
We’ll have to go visit your dollhouse, too! My girls really love it.
Love,
Marqueta
Reading Rainbow did air Follow the Drinking Gourd today. We watched and got teary eyed. It was my 8 year old’s first look at slavery. She was very sad! I am glad you posted about Mr. Lambert. Five in a Row IS a wonderful curriculum!!
Hey Lynn, I just spent some time going through the Five In a Row website. It looks like a stellar way to do homeschool. I wish I would have known about this when our kids were little. We are huge Homer Price fans and this is the first curriculum we have seen that includes that. We also read all the Henry Reed books (illustrated by McCloskey).
Thanks, Marqueta. We need to “get busy” and play with the doll house this week. Last week, with all else going on, we didn’t really do much with it.
Amber, I love Reading Rainbow. It’s one of the few things on TV that’s worth watching, IMHO. Slavery is a sad and difficult topic. I like that there are books to help introduce that part of history to young children.
Hey Ken. The Lamberts have produced a simply wonderful curriculum. I am so glad I found it the first year we started homeschooling. At the time, Daniel was 10, Joseph 7, John 4 and Michaela a newborn, so it’s been around here for a long time, even though some years our medical problems and my work schedule kept me from homeschoolig. Five In A Row has really changed the way I look at books! Michaela will be moving into Beyond Five In A Row soon. Volume 4 was just so rich, I didn’t want Michaela to miss it!
Lynn