Friday, April 1, 2011

100 Books a Month Challenge

We have been going through a transition. Not just in our move but also in how and what we read. We are transitioning from reading all together to doing more one on one and we also have been reading more chapter books. This means that the main list is shorter but the book list for each child has grown and there are less books and more chapters. Also both of them are starting to read.


March 2011 Reads:


Read to Both:
1.       17 Things I’m Not Allowed To Do Anymore by Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter
2.       A Friend For Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke
3.       A Kitten Tale b Eric Rohmann
4.       Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat by Alice Low
5.       Autum Bear by Diane Cullin
6.       Bats at the Ballgame by Brian Lies
7.       Bed Head by Margie Palatini
8.       Beetle  McGrady Eats Bugs! By Jane Manning
9.       Boo to You! By Lois Ehlert
10.   rown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? By Eric Carle
11.   Chicken, Pig, Cow by Ruth Ohi
12.   Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel
13.   Counting Kisses by Karen Katz
14.   Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French
15.   Dog and Bear by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
16.   Easter Parade by Irving Berlin (Youtube Video played in background)
17.   Eeeek, Mouse! By Lydia Monks
18.   Epossumondas by Coleen Salley
19.   Extinct Files My Science Project by Wallace Edwards
20.   Four Seasons Make a Year by Anne Rockwell
21.   Franklin’s Big Dreams by David Teague
22.   Gaspard and Lisa’s Christmas Surprise by Anne Gutman an dGeorg Hallensleben
23.   Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Sop A Tale of a Very Greedy Cat by Meilo So
24.   Gone Again Ptarmigan by Jonathan London
25.   Grady the Goose by Denise Brennan-Nelson
26.   Hey, Little Ant by Phillip and Hannah Hoose
27.   Hieronymus Betts and his Unusual Pets by M.P. Robertson
28.   I Love My Pirate Papa by Laura Leuck
29.   Imagine a Night by Rob Gonsalves
30.   Jungle Gym Jitters by Chuck Richards
31.   Little Night by Yuyi Morales
32.   Lizzie Nonsense A Story of ioneer Days by Jan Ormerod
33.   Mama’s Milk by Michael Elsohn Ross
34.   Moi & Marie Antoinette by Lynn Cullen
35.   MoonDog by John A. Rowe
36.   Mr Bear & The Bear by Frances Thomas
37.   Pepi Sings a New Song by Laura Ljungkvist
38.   Peter Spit a Seed at Sue by Jackie French Koller
39.   Pirates Don’t Chane Diapers by Melinda Long and David Shannon
40.   Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? By Eric Carle
41.   Sally’s Great Balloon Adventure by Stephen Huneck
42.   Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn
43.   Santa clause The World’s Number One Toy Expert by Marla Frazee
44.   Say Hello! By Rachel Isadora
45.   Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky
46.   Skunkdog by Emily Jenkins
47.   Sleeping Dragons All Around by Sheree Fitch
48.   Someday When My Cat Can Talk by Caroline Lazo and Kyrsten Brooker
49.   So You Want To Be An Inventor? By Judith St. George and David Small
50.   Stolen Smile by Thierry Robberecht
51.   Tell The Truth, B.B. Wolf by Judy Sierra
52.   The Bunny Who Found Easter by Charlotte Zolotow
53.   The Crow (A Not So Scary Story) by Alison Paul
54.   The Dollhouse Fairy by Jane Ray
55.   The Easter Chick by Geraldine Elschner
56.   The Emperor of Absurdia by Chris Riddell
57.   The Hat by Jan Brett
58.   The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (CD)
59.   The Longest Night by Marion Dane Bauer
60.   The Night Eater by Ana Juan
61.   The Magic Porridge Pot by Paul Galdone
62.   The Princess and the Pea by Janet Stevens
63.   There by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
64.   The Sound of Colors A Journey of the Imagination by Jimmy Liao
65.   The Subway Mouse by Barbara Reid
66.   The Zoo Room by Louse Schofield and Malcolm Geste
67.   Tiger in the Snow! By Nick Butterworth
68.   Touch It! Materials, matter and you by Adrienne Mason
69.   Very  Hairy Bear by Alice Schertle
70.   Vikings by Henry Pluckrose
71.   What Does Bunny See? By Linda Sue Park
72.   What’s the Weather Today? By Allen Fowler
73.   Why Do Stars Twinkle? And other nighttime questions by Catherine Ripley
74.   Winston of Churchill by Jean Davies Okimoto
75.   Woosh Around the Mulberry Bush by Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner
76.   You’re Finally Here! By Melanie Watt
77.   Zoo in the Sky by Jacqueline Mitton

Zoe:
1.       Always In Trouble by Corinne Demas
2.       Animal Tales The Pup Who Cried Wolf by Chris Kurtz (19 chapters)
3.       Hairy Maclary’s Bone by Lynley Dodd
4.       It’s Nice to Meet You by Natalie Shaw
5.       Mama Cat has three kittens by Denise Fleming
6.       Monster Opposites by Ed Hock (Zoe Read)
7.       Once I ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLauchlan Charest
8.       Sap to Syrup by Inez Snyder
9.       Sunshine by Jan Ormerod (Zoe Read)
10.   Smiley World “My Moods” (Zoe Read)
11.   Up in the Tree by Margaret Atwood (both of us read parts)
12.   Wax to Crayons by Inez Snyder

Austyn:
1.       A Million Dots by Andrew Clements
2.       Berries to Jelly by Inez Snyder (Austyn Read)
3.       Can I Play Too? By Mo Williems (Austyn Read)
4.       Leon and the Place Between by Angela McAllister and Grahame Baker-Smith
5.       Magic Tree House Viking Ships at Sunrise by Mary Pope Osborne (10 Chapters)
6.       My Fathers Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (iPad – 10 Chapters)
7.       So That’s How the Moon Changes Shape! By Allan Fowler (Austyn helped read)
8.       The Sun Is Always Shining Somewhere by Alan Fowler (Austyn Read)
9.       The Pet Dragon by Christoph Niemann
10.   What are Atoms? By Lisa Trumbauer (Austyn helped read)
11.   When You Look Up at the Moon by Allan Fowler (Austyn helped read)
12.   Why the Frog Has Big Eyes by Betsy Franco (Austyn Read)


Go to Home-Grown Love to join in.

3 comments:

Serena said...

In the past, a 100 book challenge (in a month) would have been a joke. We are definitely a book family. However, like you say, things change. I find my son with his head in his books all the time, but they are tending to be the same books, over and over! Lol.

On the plus side, he has decided he enjoys allowing me to read picture books to him again (an activity we haven't done in way too long). I love beautiful picture books, but he's 8 and the reading level is too low for him to keep his interests if he's reading them himself.

I suspect the tides will change yet again and variety will again become part of daily life
;-)

Learning With Passion said...

You can actually say that you have read books more than once and they count. I forgot, actually, that we did read a couple of these more than once.

Rana said...

I know it's been awhile. I have been missing all of my favorite homeschool blogs to visit. I'm trying to be more mindful about visiting and commenting. Your blog has always had some great ideas and fun things to do with the kids. I hope to be back more often. Have a great weekend!