Homeschooling in beautiful California

Friday, July 17, 2009

Meet our new many additions!

thing 1 thing 2 thing 3 thing 4 thing 5 and so on becuae really i dont have time to name them all,and who can tell them apart anyway...... It is in a way an experiment to teach them of life, of science. We have males and females. Some of the females will get pregnant and have babies. We have babies already.But there will be more! A Life lesson!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Monday, July 13, 2009

Friday, July 3, 2009

Book Post

Langley Snail is worried about Father's Day. He is not crafty, so his homemade presents always bomb. He has some money to spend, but his snail's pace gets him to the store after it closes. Besides, his friends have already snapped up the neat gifts, like the "Super-Duper-Golf-O-Matic-Home-Ball-Washer." Tomorrow is Sunday, and Langley's got nothin'. But as he walks dejectedly home, he finds a perfectly round, lilac-colored stone. Then he spies three baby birds in their nest. A lightbulb goes off: Langley leaves a note for his father requesting his presence on a nature walk. Together, the two explore the woods, and Mr. Snail says their walk is the best present ever--and Langley agrees

Little Cottontail worries that his grandfather, who now lives on the other side of the Great Green Meadow, misses him too much. After his mother says that Grandfather always loved Cottontails snuggly hugs, the rabbit gets an idea: he will send his hugs to his grandfather via the wind. In the same way, he uses the clouds to send a smile and the river to send a joke. When the bunny hears the trees singing and sees the stars twinkling, he decides that they are songs and winks coming from his grandfather. Mother and child blow kisses to the Moon to blow to Grandfather, and they fall asleep.

Mora tells of a Mexican American immigrant child who feels caught between her Spanish home and the English world outside. At home she's Estelita. At school she's Stella.when she goes to the May parade at school in a tulip costume of many colors, she worries that she looks different from everyone else, only to realize that it's fine to be different. Katarina really like this book.

this book shows some of the ways and places this little girl and her brother enjoy Bouncing : on beds, cushions, Grandpa's lap, even the couch "when Mom isn't looking." The second book presents the idea of giving in an understandable and delightful way. A fun book.

It all begins innocently enough, when Violet the dog drops a fuzzy green tennis ball down a prairie-dog hole on the title page. When it finally lands deep in the underground tunnels, dozens of little dogs are gazing at it with trepidation. The biggest prairie dog ,the bully Big Bark, comes to take a look, but before he can get close enough, Pip Squeak runs up to the ball and exclaims, ˜It's fuzzy!'˜Oooooooh!' gasped the other dogs. Soon, they all begin adorning themselves with pieces of lime-green fuzz, ignoring Big Bark's commands that they stop this foolishness. Prairie dogs come from all over to help themselves until the ball is plucked bare. War breaks out, leaving Pip Squeak feeling rather guilty for starting it all. While the embattled dogs collapse in exhaustion, Big Bark steals all of the fuzz, proclaiming himself king of the fuzz, which makes him an easy target for an eagle, who swoops down and grabs him. Pip Squeak rallies the others to come to Big Bark's aid.

love love loved this book! Colin is some swell shoemaker. In fact, people say there's magic in his cobbling, but Colin just laughs at that. Then one night Death arrives to claim his soul. It looks like curtains for the cobbler until he notices that Death is barefoot. Thinking fast and talking faster, he persuades the Grim Reaper that he needs soles, not souls, and pledges to make him a pair of sandals to go with his robe. They'll be ready in a month, Colin promises, showing a thoroughly bemused Death the door, and it goes on and on!