Library Haul 12/9/15

I have a backlog of pictures from library hauls that I never got up onto the blog, so here is the super late picture of some of the books we used to study some earth science.

Right around this time, the boys also vetoed ancient history and decided that they would rather study American history.  I think it was inspired by the Little House audio books we were working our way through.  When I told my husband about our change of plans he complimented me on my flexibility. I tend to get "attached" to my plans.  I still tried to work through the facts in chronological order, rather than skip to the 1800's.  And these are some of the books we started with.

Library Haul 10/16/15

The kids were given a choice of topic for this one.  They picked inventions/machines and oceans.  Here's what we actually checked out.

 Reading practice.  Chosen by me, with their tastes taken into consideration.

 I thought that a couple of days measuring and recording our findings could only do us good.

 Two of the three invention books we checked out.  The other one might have made it up into the bedroom.

Three of our ocean choices.  Another one about salt marshes is probably upstairs as well.  I highly recommend any Arnosky books for nature lovers at this age.  The book Shimmer & Splash is one of his.  He also wrote the Crinkleroot books.

Library Haul 6/8/2015

Yesterday afternoon I brought one young man with me to the library.  The other two opted to stay home with my husband.

We had loved a book nearly to death and needed to drop off a replacement copy to the library.  It's a little embarrassing when you are a librarian yourself, but I guess I'm just proof that it happens to everyone.  We had no agenda as far as new books went, so my buddy just grabbed a couple of things that appealed to him from various display shelves.  He ended up with two "nature study", one "math" and one fun fantasy picture book.

We are still working on two of the Egyptian books from last week, but we picked up a few more "history" books, too.

I love that my kids don't show any real preference for fiction or nonfiction.  They are nearly always willing to snuggle up and listen to anything I'm reading aloud.  Since I only have one confident reader so far, we do all of these "school" books as family read alouds.

Library Haul 6/1/2015

These titles go along with our reading of the first volume of the Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer and The Usborne Book of World History.  This upcoming school year the boys are in first grade, so we are beginning at the beginning.  We're aiming for the standard four year rotating approach to history.

The board books above were chosen by my daughter.  Avatar, Atomic Ace and Pirates were the boys' fun picks.  I chose Seed Soil Sun as a whole family science read aloud because it coordinated so well with our summertime yard and garden projects.  Poppy and Ereth is the boys' current read aloud. While we usually try to have a family-wide read aloud, the language and themes in these are too much for my three year old daughter, so my husband has been reading her bedtime stories while the boys and I work through these.  Poppy and Ereth is the last in the series, but I'm consoling myself with the idea that she'll want to listen to them in a couple of years and we can start again.