Thursday, February 25, 2010

Pirate School and Completed Books 2/25

The kids are really enjoying the Pirate School series by Brian James.  They are around 60 pages and on the easier side as far as reading level.  Enjoy!

Marcus:  The Secrets of Droon:  The Coiled Viper (117 pages), Tony Abbott, The Secrets of Droon:  The Ice Caves of Krog (114 pages), Tony Abbott, Annie and the Old One (44 pages), Mishka Miles, Anatole and the Cat (32 pages), Eve Titus, Snoring Beauty, Bruce Hale, Pirate School: The Curse of Snake Island (64 pages), Brian James.

Lella:  The Secrets of Droon:  Voyage of the Jaffa Wind (132 pages), Tony Abbott, The Secrets of Droon:  The Knights of Silversnow (121 pages), Tony Abbott, Adventures of Riley, Panda Project (33 pages), Lumry and Hurwitz, Theodore and the Talking Mushroom, Leo Lionni.

Both:  Babushka Baba Yaga, Patricia Polacco, Airmail to the Moon, Tom Birdseye, I Wonder Why...Greeks Built Temples (31 pages), Reader's Digest, Captain Abdul's Little Treasure, Colin McNaughton.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Ancient Greece

The children and I have been reading about life in Ancient Greece.  One of the things we read about were Grecian children sculpting dolls to play with out of clay.  Lella and Marcus wanted to sculpt their own dolls.  We bought some clay and they came out quite good!  Can you guess who sculpted which doll?  :-)
 

Calvin and Hobbes and Completed Books 2/17

The kids and I have had so much fun reading Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson!  They have read:

The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book
The Days Are Just Packed
It's a Magical World

The children read The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (128 pages), Nancy McArthur, together and just finished it today.  They laughed out loud throughout this whole book!  It was so much fun.

The kids and I also just finished Ballet Shoes (192 pages), Noel Streatfeild.  This was such a lovely book - set in England, three adopted sisters vow to have their names in history books when they grow up.  One of my favorite books this year!

Marcus' recently completed books:  The Secrets of Droon:  The Knights of Silversnow (122 pages), Tony Abbott, Odd and the Frost Giants (117 pages), Neil Gaiman, Theodore and the Talking Mushroom, Leo Lionni, Katie Meets the Impressionists, James Mayhew, Flamingo Dream, Donna Jo Napoli, Seven Ravens, Brothers Grimm.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Books Completed 2/6/10

Gabriella really liked Pirate School by Colin McNaughton (40 pages, very easy read).  One warning though, this is a pirate book and in pirate school kids are taught, well, how to be pirates!

Marcus:  If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (373 pages), Pseudonymous Bosch (note:  There is a character in this book whose parents are divorced.), The Secrets of Droon:  The Knights of Silversnow (122 pages), Tony Abbott, Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, Evaline Ness, The Earth Shook, Donna Jo Napoli, Buying Mittens (31 pages), Niimi Nankichi, Applelard and Liverwurst (34 pages), Mayer and Kellogg, The Trogan Horse, Warwick Hutton, In English of Course, Josephine Nobisso, The Dog Who Lost His Bob, Tom and Laura McNeal.

Lella:  The Real Winner, Charise Neugebauer, Nicolas, where have you been?, Leo Lionni, Morris's Disappearing Bag, Rosemary Wells, How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball, David Shannon, and her wonderful National Geographic Kids magazines that Gigi provides each year, The Secrets of Droon:  The Mask of Maliban (120 pages), Tony Abbott.

Both:  Captain Abdul's Pirate School (40 pages), Colin McNaughton, Count Your Way through Greece, Haskins and Benson, Swimmy, Leo Lionni, The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (46 pages), Kathryn Lasky (note:  I LOVED this book!), Kings and Queens of the Bible, Mary Hoffman and Christina Balit, Tales from the Waterhole (64 pages), Bob Graham, Hotel Jungle (32 pages), D. Napoli and S. Johnston, Cider Apples, Sandy Nightingale, The Rainbabies, Laura Melmed, The Trogan Horse:  How the Greeks Won the War, Emily Little.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Interesting Article From Alpha and Omega Publications

Homeschool View - How to Speak Your Homeschooler's Love Language

After you read the article, this will make more sense.
 
Gabriella said, "First hugs, loves and kisses and then I would want a gift!"
 
Marcus said, "First kisses and hugs, and then I would want you to worship God."
 
Steve said, "I would want to know where in the heck you had been!"  That made me laugh.