Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Hobby

Marcus just finished Hobby (90 pages), Jane Yolen, after I did the post below.  He really likes this series and I hope I can find the third one for him today at the library!

Books Completed 2/15

History (both):
Three Ships for Columbus (32 pages), Eve Spencer
Calabash Cat and His Amazing Journey, James Rumford
Brendan the Navigator, A History Mystery about the Discovery of America (31 pages), Jean Fritz
Stories from India (48 pages), Vayu Naidu
Foolish Men of Agra and other tales of Mogul India (47 pages), Rina Singh
Ghana (24 pages), Lucile Davis
Count Your Way through India, Jim Haskins

Reading (both):
Amazing Coin Tricks, Kirk Charles
Assistance Dogs, Elizabeth Ring
If You Ever Meet a Whale, Poems selected by Myra Chon Livingston
***This is a very fun book!

Lella Reading:
The Dragons of Wayward Crescent, Gauge (105 pages), Chris D/Lacey
A.A. Milne, Author of Winnie the Pooh (45 pages), Marlene Toby
Nature's Children, Frogs, Ivy
Nature's Children, Cats, Ivy
Persian Cats, Stuart Kallen
Really Radical Reptiles and Amphibians, Leslee Elliott
State Birds, Elaine Landau

Marcus Reading:
The Mystery of the Silver Dolphin (45 pages), Elspeth Campbell Murphy

Monday, February 7, 2011

Explore Museums Around the World

The Young Merlin Trilogy and Books Completed 2/7/11

Marcus recently finished the first book in Jane Yolen's The Young Merlin Trilogy called Passager (76 pages).  He is now reading the second book and very much enjoys them.  He said he liked the books because they were "adventurous and mysterious."

Another series that the kids are really enjoying are The Dragons of Wayward Crescent by Chris d'Lacey.

They have both read Gruffen (112 pages) and Glade (96 pages), and Marcus recently read Gauge (112 pages) and Grabber (96 pages).

Finally, Marcus and Lella finished Voyage of the Dawn Treader (248 pages), C.S. Lewis.  Again, they are reading the Narnia series aloud with Steve and get so excited when nighttime rolls around and they are able to lay on the couch and read with Daddy.  Fun.

Gabriella recently finished:
The Apple and the Arrow, The Legend of William Tell (80 pages), Mary and Conrad Buff
The Best-Loved Doll, Rebecca Caudill
***Chandra - she received this for Christmas and has read it through multiple times already.  She loves it as much as Anastasia.
Michelangelo, Diane Stanley

History Completed (both):
Christopher Columbus (32 pages), from the "First Biographies" series
Follow the Dream, The Story of Christopher Columbus, Peter Sis
Young Christopher Columbus (32 pages), Carpenter
Bernal and Florinda, A Spanish Tale, Eric Kimmel
Journeys With Elijah (75 pages), Barbara Goldin
Fa Mulan, Robert D. San Souci
Africa Calling, Daniel Adlerman
Savitri, A Tale of Ancient India, Aaron Shepard
Sundiata, David Wisniewski