Christmas and books go together like, well, Christmas and trees, which books kind of are, so it all makes sense. I keep a list of books we've enjoyed that I think would make good gifts and I thought I would share it.
It Looked Like Spilt Milk, Charles Shaw
Color Kittens, Margaret Wise-Brown
Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise-Brown
Not the Hippopotamus, Sandra Boynton
Bruno Munari's ABCs
Grover's Resting Places, Sesame Street
The Monster at the End of This Book, Sesame Street
Aesop's Fables (we like Milo Winter's version)
The Sleep Book, Dr Seuss
Little Bear books, Else Holmelund Minarik
Frog and Toad books, Arnold Lobel
Katy and the Big Snow, Virginia Lee Burton
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Virginia Lee Burton
Rainbow Goblins, Ul de Rico
A Child's Book of Poems, Gyo Fujikawa (or anything by her)
James Herriot's Treasury of Inspirational Stories for Children
Everybody Needs a Rock, Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall
Pagoo, Holling C. Holling
The Animal Family, Randall Jarrell
The Bat-Poet, Randall Jarrell
A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears, Jules Feiffer
Madam How and Lady Why, Charles Kingsley
Carry On, Mr Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham
Lost in the Barrens, Farley Mowat
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
1066 & All That, W.C. Sellar
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Slowly but Surely
Life keeps crowding out our home school time. I know life and learning are enmeshed and can't be separated, but I like to have dedicated lesson times so that I don't have to multitask. And between sick kids and me being sick and yard work and Hallowe'en prep and birthday prep, life crowded out our school time last week. And it's continuing today, the day after Hallowe'en.
But. B9 did come up to me with his Life of Fred math book this morning after loudly expressing his displeasure at having to do school instead of eat candy and watch movies all day and apologize for his outburst and say he knows learning is important and I'm just trying to help him learn good things and he does actually think learning can be fun so he shouldn't put up such a fuss about it. And then he did the last chapter in that book and moved on to the next one.
But. B9 did come up to me with his Life of Fred math book this morning after loudly expressing his displeasure at having to do school instead of eat candy and watch movies all day and apologize for his outburst and say he knows learning is important and I'm just trying to help him learn good things and he does actually think learning can be fun so he shouldn't put up such a fuss about it. And then he did the last chapter in that book and moved on to the next one.
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