Beautiful Picture Books

We have read some truly gorgeous picture books lately.
Check out your local library and see if they have them.

Kids Bowl Free

We are really enjoying our Kid's Bowl Free Coupons this summer. Have you heard of this? Kids under 15, i think, get 2 free games every day. You just have to pay for shoes. We also purchased the family pass for 20 something dollars so Daddy & I could play. One day we went it would have been $28 for the three of us but with the coupons we only paid for shoes... $6 total! We go at least once a week but went more while Daddy was layed off from Chrysler. It is really fun and the bumpers save our self esteems... giggle. You need to see if there is a bowling alley in your area that participates.

Disney Reading List

This Summer (and a little last fall) we have been reading through the list of original source material for Disney movies in anticipation for our Disney Vacation in the Fall. Here are the titles we have enjoyed thus far...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm's
Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi
The Reluctant Dragon (1898) by Kenneth Grahame
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris
Cinderella by Brothers Grimm
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Sleeping Beauty by Brothers Grimm
The Story of Robin Hood by Pyle
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
The Sword in the Stone, by T.H. White
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
James and the Giant Peach by Raul Dahl
Tarzan of the Apes by Robert D. San Souci
Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
A Day with Wilbur Robinson, by William Joyce


Waiting on the Night Stand...
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp
Rascal by Sterling North
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

More Summer Fun

What We've Been Up To...

Anatomy of a Parade Float

Take one drink box

Tie to a skateboard

Decorate

Priceless!

Spring Piano Recital 2009

This Land is Your Land



The Shark

Goodwill Finds

It's the end of the traditional school year and both public & home schools are cleaning closets. Don't forget to check out you local Goodwill and other thrift shops for great school materials. Here is a pile I found last week for 69 cents a piece!!!

Classic Literature

Something I hope G will be motivated to read alone.

Basals

Foundations

Art Enrichment

Great workbooks for the future.