Math Books

Math is something that we struggle with in our house, no one likes doing it, so I tried to find some things that would make math fun, and my kids LOVE books soooo math books is what we got! I ordered some on line but ususally the Library has some. Hershey's Math series of books are really funny and teach the math concepts usuing CHOCOLATE!!! I love love love Stuart Murphy- his books are GREAT there are TONS of math topics from all different ages his books are fun for kids, and really put math in REAL life situations that the kids can understand and see WHY they need math! LOVE IT! Give me Half is our FAVORITE of them all.
this is one of the MANY we have checked out at the library-
The kids are learning to enjoy math a lot more now.

Book Review #2

A few weeks ago, we learned about china, and finding hidden treasure there. We really enjoyed these two books. The Pet dragon was lots of fun, showing kids some basic chinese chartachers and meanings was really interesting. The Fortune cookies Fortunes was a fun sweet book we also made fortune cookies together - really fun activity, I know we will do it next year too, and i will post the house to then if you want to know before then, as always just ask!This is a funny book about gardening, we read this last year in the spring and the kids love it sooo much they wanted to get it again. If you have a garden that gets eaten by critters you will love t his book!
This is not one of my favorites but the boys all love it... you will have to read it to see why....
I think I have this book memorized, Ryan askes to read this book many times a day, it is great book about working hard, problem solving and friendship, and it is funny too!
And MY favoirte! it really deserves it's own post. This will not be the last time you see this book on this blog. We all love it!

THE DOT by Peter Reynolds

Book Review #1

Sooo since I am homeschooling, I wanted to teach the kids how to go the library and pick out books, have them think about what books they are drawn to and why.

In the past I just always pick out the books and, I will still pick out some books but I wanted to let them get more involved.

Then when we find really good books that we love we will share them, so you can enjoy them too, or so we know what books we like for later use, or when my kids are grown to share with their kids.

So, here are some books that we love.

sorry about the dark pictures. i was to lazy to get my flash :)

This book is called "One" by Kaitlyn somebody, I can't read it, but if you click on the picture I am sure you can. This is a great book, it is clean and fun. It is great for teaching, colors, feelings, and numbers 1-7. Ryan really loved this book.

Here we have Richard was a picker, by Carilyn Beck. This is a funny and gross book! I have accepted that a life with boys is a gross one, so I have just trying to enjoy the ride. Ethan could not get his "nose" out of this book! ha ha

We do a lot of potty training in this house, with Aaron and Ryan so we get fun potty books when we can, this has been a great read. It does not really teach them anything about going on the potty, but it is funny and makes the process more fun, we all loved his book. It is called Have you seen my potty? by Mary McQuizlar, again I can't read the name but you can if you click on the picture.

Our last one for this time is... Alligator Ate my Brother. Ryan LOVES this book, and was always looking at it. I think since he has a few brothers to spare he finds this book funny! it is a great story, and it encourages imagination in play, I love it!

I hope you enjoyed our book reviews!!!