 Hey you guys my name is Brittany Ann welcome back to my youtube channel. You guys in today's video I'm actually going to be sharing with you all of my riddle out choices for our 2021 2022 school year. You guys this video is very special just because this video is in collaboration with my friend Lauren from the practical homeschooler. She actually is a mom of three girls as well. She has a nine eight and a four year old and I'm so excited to be collabing with her on this video. She is a very down-to-earth regular homeschool mom just like me and I would love for you guys after you watch this video to go head on to her channel and go ahead and see all of her riddle out picks that she actually picked for her daughters as well. So you guys I am very excited about today's video so let's go ahead and get right on into all of the books. So you guys this riddle out video that I'm making is a little bit special just because I'm not only including the real louts that I'm going to be doing with my fourth grader I'm actually including real louts that I'm going to be doing with my younger two daughters who are one and three. I really find that it's very important to go ahead and start that love of learning and reading at a young age. My daughter who is three she actually has a speech delight and the first thing the speech therapist told me to do was just to go ahead and start carving out that extra time to read with her one-on-one and honestly you guys like that was the best advice that that speech therapist gave me just because as soon as we started reading her love for books has grown and I actually find her sitting along with us when we're reading the bigger chapter books as well just because we do read a lot. So I hope you enjoy seeing the picks that I picked out for my preschoolers as well. But let's go ahead and start off with the things for my fourth grader. The first book that I have right here is the trumpet of the swan you guys. We actually already finished reading this book. We are actually already have started our homeschooling year and we started off with this book the trumpet of the swan. This book was an amazing read you guys. This book is about Louise who was a trumpeter swan and he actually was born without a voice. So Louise tries everything that he can to win Serena who was a girl swan that he's interested to her affection but he doesn't have a voice. So what his father does is his father steals a brass trumpet for him and honestly we will just find out or you guys will find out in this story if he's able to win over Serena's heart. You guys I will go ahead and just let you know this was an amazing read. I'm so happy we started off our school year reading this book. I would recommend this to anyone. My three year old actually stood and listened to some of their chapters as well and I really feel like this is just a good family read aloud. It's just a heartfelt one. So the trumpet of this one definitely I would say five stars but yeah this is a real out we already did. Now the read aloud that we're actually working on right now is a long walk to water. We're actually doing a Africa unit study from the Heritage Mom and she actually incorporates a lot of picture books and things like that to go along with the Africa unit study. However I just wanted to add in a little chapter book just for us to read as well just because reading in our household is actually one thing I feel like I got right. So read a little bit more books honestly it's just really a joy in our household. So we have been reading a long walk to water and a long walk to water it follows two children from Sudan Nila and Sava and it just follows their stories. These actually stories of Nila and Sava are actually true stories. This right here is I guess I would say this is a nonfiction book. However they did say in the back of the book that some of the chapters they may have added things into I guess beef up the story. So for the most part I will say this is nonfiction. This has been a really good story so far and I really find that this is an awesome read just for Brielle at this age for her to be able to appreciate you know everything that she has and to be grateful and to know that when she thinks she has it hard it's other kids around that world that might have it a little bit harder and we need to have compassion and empathy for those. So this has been a really good read. This has been bringing about a lot of questions and things like that in our household and we have been enjoying this one. So a long walk to water is on our list. Now I have my side of the mountain. This actually was a recommendation from Tori from the Oglesby Ohan. I think she read this with her kids last year and I got interested in it so I went ahead and I just added it last year on to our list. So I'm really excited for us to read my side of the mountain. I think this is going to be a really good reader and yeah. I actually have The Role to Paris. This book you guys I actually got for completely free because right now Coloss is doing their book special where you buy a box of cereal. You get a free book. So I got a few free books from that I guess promotion that they have going on just because my kids love cereal and I figured I might as well go ahead and get my free book to go with it. But this book right here is I will just go ahead and read the back of it for you guys and it says Paris has been sent from one mean foster family to another. Never feeling welcome. Never fitting in. Having her brother by her side makes it tolerable but now the system has ripped them apart. When Paris moves in with the Lincoln's she expects the worst. This family is different though. With daily acts of love and inclusion the Lincoln slowly earned her trust and warmed their way into her heart. She misses her brother of course and as a biracial girl in a predominantly white town there is a constant reminder of her outsider status. Still maybe just maybe Paris has finally found a place where she can call home. But the minute this possibility seems within reach Paris is asked to make a difficult decision about where she truly belongs. You guys like the back of the book this sounds like it's going to be an awesome read so I'm really excited for this one to be in our read aloud and again this one is called The Role to Paris. Okay this is another free book that I got from the Kellogg's book promotion and this one is called The First Rule of Punk and I'm really excited for us to read this book right here. This book to pretty much summarize it is about a young girl um what's her name Malou I believe that's how you pronounce it and she actually has a particular style she likes to wear punk rock type of clothes. However her school has it on their dress code where they can't wear it at her school so we just follow her journey for her finding her um I guess her particular identity and what she does is does when she's faced with these challenges. I'm sorry you guys I cannot talk but yeah my daughter actually picked this one out and she's really excited to read this. I know honestly she could possibly read this as like an independent reader. However she told me she wanted us to read this one together so I'm really excited about this one. So I have gone crazy in Alabama as another one of our read aloud choices. I'm really excited about this one because we read One Crazy Summer last school year and my daughter told me that was her favorite book. We read the whole school year and I'm very excited to go along with the second book. I heard that the first book was better than the second but it honestly doesn't matter to us. We still want to go ahead and follow um these three girls uh Delphine, Vanita and Fern again on their next adventure to Alabama. So we are really excited to read this one as well. Now we started the Little House in the Big Woods series this year or last year we actually already read last year uh Little House in the Big Woods and we also read Farmer Boy. So this is the third book Little House on the Prairie and I have this on here. I'm not too sure if we're going to get to this one just because to really be honest I let my daughter kind of like pick the book she likes to read and this was the last one so I'm not too sure if this is actually going to make it in the actual books that we read. However this is still you know this still made it on the list so this is Little House on the Prairie. This year we're also going to read Roll of Thunder here my cry. We are actually introducing history this year. We're going to be doing American History and I'm really excited to go ahead and add this book to our read aloud. I heard so many good things about this book. This book is actually on the Sunlight Readers and Sunlight they really pick good awesome readers so I'm really excited for us to read this book and I really hope that Brielle enjoys it. Okay we are also going to read Inside Out and Back Again. So I'm really excited about this book as well for us to read. Pretty much this book goes along and it follows a girl's journey through the Vietnam War. I'm really excited for us just to read about other people in other cultures and especially in harder times especially during the Vietnam War so I'm really excited for us to dig into this reader and yeah. I also have Esperanza's Rising and this is actually about a little girl from Mexico who is coming to America and it just talks about her journey and the challenges that they face and I'm really excited for us to read this one as well. I heard that this was a good book and I cannot wait for us to dive into this book as well. I have two books right here. These was also recommendations from Tori from the Oglesby Ohan and this is a book written by Sarah Penny Packer and it's packed and here in the real world. So I'm really excited for us to read these ones as well. Here in the real world is actually going to be our next read aloud. We're going to read after we finish a long walk to water so I am very excited about us digging into these two books as well. So these right here you guys are actually all of the read alouds that I have picked out for my fourth grader. Now I'm going to go ahead and show you guys the read alouds that I picked for my one and my three-year-old and things that I wanted to read. So the first read aloud that I have for my daughters actually is Mother Goose and I feel like this is especially a classic book for you to read with your younger toddlers just so they can kind of get a feel of nursery rhymes and things like that. This book was actually given to me for completely free from her speech therapist. They actually gave me like a big old totes full of books and things like that that they recommend us read. So we have been going through the Mother Goose series and my daughters they especially Leia they she laughs at a lot of the nursery rhymes and things like that. She feels like they're goofy and silly and I want to go ahead and continue to read aloud more of these Mother Goose nursery rhymes to her as well. Now you guys if you aren't new to my channel these books are not going to be a surprise to you but I have I am enough and I believe I can. You guys both of these books are actually in my morning basket right now because my two younger daughters cannot get enough of these books. They love both of these books from Grace Byers and I really feel like these are I guess very good character building books. I am enough really it just it just really just shows you that you know through the challenges throughout life especially challenges that young kids may face like falling down or not being the best or not winning a race. It just really shows them that in the end they are enough and I believe I can. It's really awesome because it just gives the child positive affirmations letting them know that they will make mistakes they will fall but all they have to do is believe they can and get up and try again. So these two books are definitely wins in my household and I will continue to read these over and over to Leia especially who pays attention to them. Not really a lot of um as read aloud for them. This is a new book that I recently got and it's called Not Quite Snow White and Leia she actually really enjoyed this one and I'm really excited to continue to read this as a read aloud. When it comes to picture books especially for my younger daughters I like to read them over and over again because repetition really helps instill the stories and the meanings for them so that is why I picked Not Quite Snow White as a read aloud. She enjoyed it so I'm going to continue to read this one to my younger two as well. Now I have two board books that I've been reading with them which is an African alphabet because we are studying Africa right now and then I also have Dream Big Little One. So these are the two board books that I constantly pick up that they constantly ask me to read for them so these are also a part of my toddler's read alouds. Now I have this Osborn book called A Celebration of Sisters which is a part of read aloud that I love reading to them. My oldest daughter Brielle actually really loves reading this book right here to Leia and Alana. This really just talks about the joys and the relationships of having sisters the disagreements that they might have and I really feel like it's such a positive message especially for when you have like siblings and things like that just to know you guys will disagree but at the end of the day you know you need to be grateful that you have each other and you gotta get along. So if you have any um if you're like me have an all-girl family I feel like this is a really good read aloud for you to read especially with the younger ones um but this book is called A Celebration of Sisters and this is the Osborn one and this is definitely one over my heart at least. Another Osborn book that I'm doing as a read aloud for my toddlers are what are feelings. I feel like right now especially in this toddler age I mean it's just a lot of big feelings and sometimes I feel like um by just taking the time to explain to them what those feelings are and how they feel especially in an age appropriate way it's great. So um this was another book recommended from my speech therapist that I got and I'm so excited to continue to read this one and it's really cute because this book actually has like the little lift lift the flaps and things like that and it's really interactive and I really can get um my toddlers to sit down with me a little bit longer just because it has that interactive part to it. So yes now I have these last three books that I actually just picked up from the library and I think I'm going to go ahead and add these to my library collection just because my daughters love these so much and this one is called um a book of mindfulness and it's by Susan Verde hopefully I'm pronouncing that right but this book right here is called I am peace this one is called I am one and this one is called I am human and you guys this one is actually a book of I am human is the a book of empathy I am one is a book of action and then I am peace is a book of mindfulness so these three books are really positive ways for me to introduce um character and things like that and empathy and my daughters actually have been really enjoying me read these books um as part of like a read aloud even Brielle my um fourth grader she actually has been listening in on them as I'm reading them to my um younger two and I've really been enjoying these and I think I'm going to go ahead and add these ones to our collection because these books are so beautiful the illustrations are beautiful and I think these are just ones that I just have to add I have to add them so you guys those are all of my read aloud choices for my fourth grader and for my toddlers I really hope you enjoyed today's video I hope this has given you some inspiration and some more books that you can add to your read aloud list um I always love watching these videos uh just for me to get inspiration for what's the next book that we're going to read in our family so as always you guys I hope you enjoyed today's video um please don't forget to comment like and subscribe and I look forward to seeing everybody and my next one bye