I'll put the author last name first, then the name of the book. The red ones, are ones I've gotten.
Avi - Prairie School
Bulla - Riding the Pony Express
Bulla - Viking Adventure
Clements - Jake Drake: Bully Buster
De Jong - The Last Little Cat
De Jong - Shadrach
De Jong - Along Came a Dog
Fleischman - McBroom's Wonderful Acre Farm
Goodman - Cora Frear
Graves - Marco Polo
Henry - Misty of Chincoteague
Herman - The House on Walenska Street
Hurwitz - A Llama in the Family
Haywood - B is for Betsy
Kinsey-Warnock - Lumber Camp Library
Levinson - Clara and the Bookwagon
Lovelace - Besty and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
McKissack - Tippy Lemmey
Merrill - The Toothpaste Millionaire
Peterson - The Littles
Richardson - More Stories From the Attic
Repp - A Question of Yams
Roop - Keep the Lights Burning Abbie
Sandin - The Long Way to a New Land
Sandin - The Long Way Westward
Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown
Allan - Tales of Robin Hood
DuBois - The Twenty One Balloons
Henry - White Stallion of Lipizza
Lenski - Strawberry Girl
Llorente - The Apprentice
Montgomery - Kildee House
Platt - Castle Diary
Shemin - The Little Riders
Shetler - And the Word Came with Power
Skurzinksky - The Minstrel in the Tower
Hillyer - A Child's History of the World
Benge - Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime
Barton - Maps and Globes
Hockett - Catching Their Talk in a Box
Johnstone - Explorer's News
Schiller - Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky
Spraggett & Johnstone - Window on the World
Stanley - Michaelangelo
Stanley - Peter the Great
Stanley & Vennema - Good Queen Bess
Told ya it was long!!! Just let me know what level your using and what books you've gotten and can use my catalog to see what others you need and when I'm out looking, I'll look for you too (if you want me to). Thanks a lot!!!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Hi!!
Just a quick update!!
1st: Pregnancy: Well today I'm 14 weeks pregnant. I'm starting to find my regular clothes quite uncomfortable and will probably be transitioning to maternity clothes in a week or two. I still need to shop for a few things. I only kept 1 shirt from my other 2 pregnancies. My mom took me and the kids shopping yesterday, mainly for furniture. She and my Dad wanted to buy us the furniture for the nursery. We picked out the crib and a matching dresser/changing table. I love them both and felt so blessed that they wanted to do that for us. Everything will be ready in about 3 months (they had to order the dresser), so in plenty of time! We haven't decided on names yet. We have 2 or 3 contenders for each sex. We always do Biblical first names, and we're still going with that. I feel like I fall in love with the names the more and more I think about them. Right now the choices are, in no particular order: boy - Joshua, Jesse, Caleb girl - Sarah, Elizabeth (go by Libby), Eden. We won't find out the sex ahead of time, so only about 26 more weeks until we know which name it is!!
2nd: Homeschooling: Our homeschooling adventures are continuing. We had a planned field trip for today, but it was outdoors and I chose to not go considering the rain, wind, cooler temps and I'm sure tons of mud!! I probably would've gone anyway, but Abby has a pretty good cold going and I just thought being out in that weather, wasn't a good choice. We were a bit bummed about that, but hopefully when the weather gets nice again, we can do something similar. We are still planning to go the Reds game next Thursday. At this point they are predicting rain for that as well, but I'm praying that changes! I'm so excited for the weather day portion of the game (before the game, the meteorologists from Fox 19 will be doing special weather presentations and experiments for kids) and I can't wait to see Steve Horstmeyer in person!! (Steve Horstmeyer has been a Cincinnati Meteorologist for just about as long as I can remember and I have always loved watching him do the weather. I love weather in general and I would get up 30 minutes early when I was in middle school to watch him do the weather in the morning!)
The homeschool convention is in 2 weeks and I'm super excited. I LOVE going to convention. There are about 16 slots to see speakers and I've chosen 26 I want to see, so I'm going to have to pare down and make sure I leave time for visiting the exhibition hall where all the curriculum people are. I think I've made most of my decisions about what curriculums we'll be using next year (all except Language Arts/Writing). Notice I said curriculums with an 's' because I'm going to be mixing and matching next year for a change. I'm very excited about that because I'll be able to personalize the education to the child.
Our calendar schedule is going to be a bit crazy for the rest of the year (and next!). We were planning to do all year schooling, with 3 week breaks 3 times a year and a bigger break at Christmas time. But now with the baby coming, we've decided to sort of go all out until the end of September and then break for October, November and December. We'll be actually starting "next years" curriculum in July and then continuing to the end of September and then resuming it in January. We're taking a total of 5 weeks off between now and September. One is for Easter week, one for the week we go to Gatlinburg with my family (mid May) and 3 for the transition from this year to next years curriculum (which will be end of June, early July). I think that will work...hopefully!!
Oh, I almost forgot, I finally found a group to be a part of and I can't even begin to tell you how much of an answer to prayer this is. For so long I prayed to find a group of "like minded" homeschoolers that I could feel comfortable fellowshipping with and having as support. Well I had only been searching for Cincinnati area groups and one day, I did a sort of generic search and found a South Dayton Group. Not only do they hold to the same beliefs we do (Christian, believe in parents right to educate their children, etc..) but I had also prayed to find someone with kids my kids ages and the lady who first responded to me told me she had a son who is 9 (my son is 9!!) and a daughter who is 7 (my daughter will be 7 in 5 months!!), I couldn't believe it. Whe He delivers, He delivers!! They have monthly mom meetings and I'm going to my first one this Sunday. I can't wait!!
3rd: Other News: Not much else is really going on, other than normal day to day living. I'm hosting an Easter brunch for my parents, my mother in law and my brother and his family. I love hosting meals. I'm trying to "do it on a dime" and will probably post how much it all cost.
The kids are doing great (other than the annoying cold we keep passing around and let me tell you, it is no fun having a pretty good cold and being pregnant when you can take nothing for it!!). We're hoping to get a garden going in the next few weeks. The kids are very excited about that. We'll be growing carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, strawberries and later in the summer, pumpkins. We also already have peach and pear trees and are hoping to plant apple and cherry trees this Spring.
1st: Pregnancy: Well today I'm 14 weeks pregnant. I'm starting to find my regular clothes quite uncomfortable and will probably be transitioning to maternity clothes in a week or two. I still need to shop for a few things. I only kept 1 shirt from my other 2 pregnancies. My mom took me and the kids shopping yesterday, mainly for furniture. She and my Dad wanted to buy us the furniture for the nursery. We picked out the crib and a matching dresser/changing table. I love them both and felt so blessed that they wanted to do that for us. Everything will be ready in about 3 months (they had to order the dresser), so in plenty of time! We haven't decided on names yet. We have 2 or 3 contenders for each sex. We always do Biblical first names, and we're still going with that. I feel like I fall in love with the names the more and more I think about them. Right now the choices are, in no particular order: boy - Joshua, Jesse, Caleb girl - Sarah, Elizabeth (go by Libby), Eden. We won't find out the sex ahead of time, so only about 26 more weeks until we know which name it is!!
2nd: Homeschooling: Our homeschooling adventures are continuing. We had a planned field trip for today, but it was outdoors and I chose to not go considering the rain, wind, cooler temps and I'm sure tons of mud!! I probably would've gone anyway, but Abby has a pretty good cold going and I just thought being out in that weather, wasn't a good choice. We were a bit bummed about that, but hopefully when the weather gets nice again, we can do something similar. We are still planning to go the Reds game next Thursday. At this point they are predicting rain for that as well, but I'm praying that changes! I'm so excited for the weather day portion of the game (before the game, the meteorologists from Fox 19 will be doing special weather presentations and experiments for kids) and I can't wait to see Steve Horstmeyer in person!! (Steve Horstmeyer has been a Cincinnati Meteorologist for just about as long as I can remember and I have always loved watching him do the weather. I love weather in general and I would get up 30 minutes early when I was in middle school to watch him do the weather in the morning!)
The homeschool convention is in 2 weeks and I'm super excited. I LOVE going to convention. There are about 16 slots to see speakers and I've chosen 26 I want to see, so I'm going to have to pare down and make sure I leave time for visiting the exhibition hall where all the curriculum people are. I think I've made most of my decisions about what curriculums we'll be using next year (all except Language Arts/Writing). Notice I said curriculums with an 's' because I'm going to be mixing and matching next year for a change. I'm very excited about that because I'll be able to personalize the education to the child.
Our calendar schedule is going to be a bit crazy for the rest of the year (and next!). We were planning to do all year schooling, with 3 week breaks 3 times a year and a bigger break at Christmas time. But now with the baby coming, we've decided to sort of go all out until the end of September and then break for October, November and December. We'll be actually starting "next years" curriculum in July and then continuing to the end of September and then resuming it in January. We're taking a total of 5 weeks off between now and September. One is for Easter week, one for the week we go to Gatlinburg with my family (mid May) and 3 for the transition from this year to next years curriculum (which will be end of June, early July). I think that will work...hopefully!!
Oh, I almost forgot, I finally found a group to be a part of and I can't even begin to tell you how much of an answer to prayer this is. For so long I prayed to find a group of "like minded" homeschoolers that I could feel comfortable fellowshipping with and having as support. Well I had only been searching for Cincinnati area groups and one day, I did a sort of generic search and found a South Dayton Group. Not only do they hold to the same beliefs we do (Christian, believe in parents right to educate their children, etc..) but I had also prayed to find someone with kids my kids ages and the lady who first responded to me told me she had a son who is 9 (my son is 9!!) and a daughter who is 7 (my daughter will be 7 in 5 months!!), I couldn't believe it. Whe He delivers, He delivers!! They have monthly mom meetings and I'm going to my first one this Sunday. I can't wait!!
3rd: Other News: Not much else is really going on, other than normal day to day living. I'm hosting an Easter brunch for my parents, my mother in law and my brother and his family. I love hosting meals. I'm trying to "do it on a dime" and will probably post how much it all cost.
The kids are doing great (other than the annoying cold we keep passing around and let me tell you, it is no fun having a pretty good cold and being pregnant when you can take nothing for it!!). We're hoping to get a garden going in the next few weeks. The kids are very excited about that. We'll be growing carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, strawberries and later in the summer, pumpkins. We also already have peach and pear trees and are hoping to plant apple and cherry trees this Spring.
Abby has lost lots of teeth (including the front two) and Noah has gotten new glasses. Noah is very excited that a Lego store is opening at Kenwood Towne Center this summer.
Oh and 1 more thing, even if you don't believe homeschooling is right for your family, can you please go to parentalrights.org and sign the petition for an amendment that would protect parents rights to choose wheter to send their children to public school, private school or homeschool. As parents we should have that choice and the government is trying to take it away (The UN Conention on the Rights of the Child). So please take just a second and sign the petition so we can maintain the freedoms God has bestowed on us in regards to our children. Thanks!!
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