100 Books-A-Month Challenge, Reading My Library

I'm getting behind in posts again. Things are busy with drag racing back in our lives. Here is our list of books read for this month. There are a couple of books I didn't record that are up at the race track. I'll add them later. As for reading our library, we are still plugging along. We have only made it to H though and I figure that we likely won't finish our alphabet of authors this year. That is okay. We are enjoying it and have discovered some amazing authors.

Read to Austyn and Zoe:
1. A Friend For Tiger by Laurence Bourguignon
2. A Gift of Gracias by Julia Alvarez
3. A Little Bit of Trouble by Sally Grindley and Eleanor Taylor
4. A Picture Book of Helen Keller by David A. Adler
5. A Particular Cow by Mem Fox
6. A Pocket For Corduroy by Don Treeman
7. Bear at home by Stella Blackstone
8. Big Little Otter by Lillian Hoban
9. Boo To A Goose by Mem Fox
10. Boo to You! By Louis Ehlert
11. Cinderella by Michele Marineau
12. Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway
13. Daisy Rabbit’s Tree House by Penny Dale
14. Discovery by Joseph Brodsky
15. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! By mo willems
16. Ducks don’t wear socks by John Nedwidek
17. Earl the Squirrel by Don Freeman
18. Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest by Irene Kelly
19. Five Little Ducks by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey
20. Follow the Money! By Loreen Leedy
21. Fossil by Claire Ewart
22. Furry Friends Same and Different by Blue Apple Books
23. G is for One Gzonk! By Tony DiTerlizzi
24. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins
25. Happy Birthday to Whoo? By Doris Fisher
26. Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild! By Mem Fox
27. Have You Ever Done That? By Julie Larios
28. How Long? By Elizabeth Dale
29. I Am I by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
30. I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge
31. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling – 1 Story
32. King Puck by Michael Garland
33. Know What I Saw? By Aileen Fisher
34. Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare by Hans de Beer
35. Lucy Dove by Janice Del Negro
36. Marsupial Sue by John Lithgow
37. Marsupial Sue Presents The Runnaway Pancake by John Lithgow
38. Mattland by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert
39. Monkey Business by Wallace Edwards
40. Monster Bugs by Lucille Recht Penner
41. Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile by Won-Ldy Paye & Margaret H. Lippert
42. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! By Candace Fleming and G. Brian Karas – book on CD
43. My Little Sister Hugged An Ape by Bill Grossman – read 2x
44. Never Smile at a Monkey by Steve Jenkins
45. Nicky and the Big, Bad Wolves by Valeri Gorbachev
46. Noah and the Great Flood by Mordiacai Gerstein
47. One Magical Morning by Claire Freedman
48. Pie in the Sky by Lois Ehlert
49. Piggy Monday by Suzanne Bloom
50. Pirate Girl by Kerstin Meyer
51. Pondlarker by Fred Gwynne
52. Quennu and the Cave Bear by Marie Day
53. Robins Songbirds of Sprin by Mia Posada
54. Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee
55. Round Like a Ball! By Lisa Campbell Ernst
56. Skippyjon Jones Lost in Spice by Judy Schachner
57. Slop Goes The Soup by Pamela D. Edwards and Henry Cole
58. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Freya Littledale
59. Teddy Bear Tears by Jim Aylesworth
60. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
61. The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
62. The Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle
63. The Diggers by Margaret Wise Brown – read 2x
64. The Lady with the Alligator Purse by Mary Ann Hoberton
65. The Lion and the Little Red Bird by Elisa Kleven
66. The Luck of the Lock Ness Monster by A. W. Flaherty
67. The Magic Hat by Mem Fox
68. The Real, True Dulcie Campbell by Cynthia DeFelice
69. The Ring Went Zing! By Sean Taylor
70. The Scarab’s Secret by Nick Would and Christina Balit
71. The Song of Six Birds by Rene Deetlefs
72. The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt
73. The Spirit of Canada by Barbara Hehner – 3 stories
74. The Star-Bearer by Dianne Hofmer
75. Those Excellent Eagles by Jan Lee Wicker
76. Tick-Tock by Eileen Browne
77. Too Many Pears! By Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
78. Tough Boris by Mem Fox
79. Traditional Tales of Long, Long Ago by Philip Wilson – 1 story
80. Walk with Me by Stella Blackstone and Caroline Mockford
81. What Are You Doing Sam? By Marie-Louise Gay
82. What does Peace feel like? By V. Radunsky and children
83. What Sea Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern
84. Who Invited you? by Candace Fleming
85. Winter by Sean Smith
86. Wolves by Emily Gravett

Austyn Read:
There Is a Bird on Your Head! By Mo Willems
I Am Invited to a Party! By Mo Willems
Can I Play Too? By Mo Willems

Read to Austyn:
All About Turtles by Jim Arnosky
Amazing Aircraft by Seymour Simon
A Million Dots by Andrew Clements
Animals in Flight by Steven Jenkins and Robin Page
Arthur and the Sword by Robert Sabuda
Cold Feet by Cynthia DeFelice
Dinosaur Hunt by Karen Carr
Giants, Witches and Dragons by Wonder Read Aloud Books – 2 Stories
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty
Jumping Spiders by Meish Goldish
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling – 1 Story
Let’s Go for a Ride by Maxwell Newhouse
Let’s Look at Bats by Ruth Berman
Our World by National Geographic
Prickly Sea Stars by Natalie Lunis
The Boy Who Longed For A Lift by Norma Farber
The Emperor and the Nightingale by Alison Ainsworth
The Moon by Seymour Simon

Read to Zoe:
Duck for President byDoreen Cronin – Book on CD
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow – Book on CD
Les animaux de la foret by Fleurus
MOMfulness by Denise Roy – 1 chapter
Spot Loves School by Eric Hill
Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Baby Einstein
Marcos Counts by Tomie DePaola

A NEW Unschooling Support Forum

I just set up a large Unschooling Network that anyone can join who is interested in unschooling. It is brand new! I mean REALLY new! So, please go easy on me. There may be some things to iron out still. If you see anything that you would like to be changed or anything that would be helpful to add please let me know.

Here is the website:

http://unprocessed.proboards.com

 

Yes!! and Yes!!

Blogger must have put back their old image import feature. I can put images on again! Yes! And the other "Yes" is for us finally racing. This is a picture of my hubby under the race car. I love this picture. It's a bit humorous. Disclaimer: No mechanic was harmed in the making of this photo... Ha ha ha!! He does a large amount of the work himself. 

We had a new engine built this year and it was suppose to be finished for the long weekend in May. It wasn't finished until a couple of weeks ago. It's in and ready to go! 

If you know anything about racing you'll know what I mean when I say that our car use to be in the 12's and now it should be in the 9's. We will find out this weekend. If it's in the 9's we'll have to get a special license. Also, if it has a really hard take-off we may need a wheelie bar.

Wish us luck!

No pictures?!

I am unable to post pictures on here anymore. They changed how it's done and my old Macintosh doesn't work with whatever they did. Without pictures I think that it wouldn't be have as exciting reading this blog. So, I may be taking a break until I get a new computer. I sadly say goodbye until then or until they change how they place images on this site. Hopefully I'll be back soon.
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Book Sharing Monday - Slop Goes The Soup

Want to talk to your kids about onomatopoeia (ahn-uh-mah-tuh-pee-uh)? Onomatopoeia means words that sound just like their sound. Slop Goes The Soup by Pamela D. Edwards and Henry Cole is a story about these words that describe (and sound like) sounds. It's a very simple story, but there is a page at the back that talks about onomatopoeia and has some questions/activities that help reinforce the definition.

Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Here is our butterfly house. We made it at a Homeschool Bug Co-Op. It works well. I wish I could find the instructions on how to make it so I can share, but I was unsuccessful. It's pretty easy but not so easy to explain without illustrations or pictures. Sorry, guys. If anyone finds instructions, please share them with me and I'll share it here.

We started with 6 caterpillars. Four of them are now butterflies and we let them go. Two of them are in the chrysalis stage. We've done well, with the exception of one butterfly that our cats got a hold of one early morning. We set it free because it was still alive but it was unable to fly. Now I keep the butterfly house hanging on a ceiling lamp in the office where I can shut the door at night, locking the cats out.

This is one of our success stories. I captured a picture of it while it rested on a tree branch in our yard, before taking flight.

Black Swallowtail Butterfly

Our oldest caterpillar showed signs that it would be coming out yesterday. The main sign is that the beautiful greenish colour goes a murky black colour. We took it with us everywhere we went so that we wouldn't miss it. 

Looking up close we could see more and more details through the chrysalis. 

We went out and while we were out we took the jar with us. We even brought it into Harveys when we ate lunch. Good thing we did because as soon as we got all settled and started to take our first bites it started to emerge.  I took video and was way too excited, so it's good that my hubby decided to edit it and add music. The kids liked to watch how he edited it on the computer. I'm glad you don't have to hear my shrieking, excited noises as we watch it come out. LOL! It was way to hard to contain the excitement. We've had many caterpillars but never actually saw the butterfly come out of it's chrysalis before. It's a good thing we didn't obey the signs as we entered Harveys that says "No Pets Allowed".

The kids took out the chrysalis for closer observation after we got home and learned that there was a liquid inside it. We identified the butterfly as a female. I'll take a picture of our butterfly tomorrow as we let it go outside so you can see the beautiful markings on it that helped us identify that it as a female.