Last week I knew I would be in the car and at some point Si would fall asleep. I drove prepared. After a quick stop at Starbucks drive thru which isn't as much fun as sitting in the shop, I pulled into the parking lot drank my new favorite concoction, Mocha Misto and read some books. I tossed the books on the passenger seat as I finished them. The photo above is a recreation of what I saw on the passenger's seat. In true blog thinking, I thought the selection of books would make a great book post.
Wild About Books, a most delightful book, arrived via Paperbackswap.com just that morning. If you haven't read it I'm sure you will love it. I read a book about fractions entitled Full House: An Invitation to Fractions. Miss Bloom runs a bed and breakfast called Strawberry Inn and wishes for her rooms to be filled. As each guest arrives for the night she notes, 1/6th full, 2/6th full and so on. The characters and the rhyming are sure to please even young children. The book reminded me of Meredith's recent post about studying fractions. I was just now checking other books written by Dayle Ann Dodds and discovered that she is also the author of one of our favorite books (there are about 1000 on the list) entitled Hello, Sun.
Jess recommended Autumnblings and I am so thankful. In the past, I hadn't been a big fan of Douglas Florian but Autumnblings changed my mind. I photocopied quite a few poems from the book to use in our home learning. Thanks Jess.
Those Amazing Musical Instruments! is an institutional book that you might only find at the library but I am glad my library listed it as a new arrival because it is a wonderful resource for teaching about musical instruments. We just spent the last half hour listening to the CD-Rom that accompanies the book. The multimedia is so easy to navigate. You can listen to an individual instrument and then there are links to short segments of real music where you can hear the instrument. The photos and the detailed information in the book are fantastic. There is a page that describes the make up of a string trio, quartet, quintet and so on. I imagine we will have this book from the library for the maximum time and will check it again in the future. I just now checked the book on Amazon to create the link and this book is only $13.57. We just might have to purchase this one. :)
I very much enjoyed Mommy, Teach Me even though it took me almost 4 months to read it. I finally finished it as I sat confined to my car last week. I photocopied many of the exercises including laminating photos of different living creatures in order to learn animal classification, introducing geometric solids, the cultural geography exercise where you find images that represent the seven continents and then keep them in separate envelopes. I am looking forward to presenting these to Citcat.
Why do kids sleep so soundly in the car?
