Library Books

I've been wanting for a while to get back into my old habit of typing our library book selections into my blog. These are not here as recommendations, necessarily, but to help me when I am thinking back to a certain book but can't remember the title. Yesterday when we were talking about fireflies it made me think of a library book we got some time ago, where it was the day before school started up again and the boy and his friends decided to spend one last perfect summer evening. I think there was something about fireflies in it. But you can hardly Google something like "a boy and his friends decided to spend one last perfect summer evening, fireflies" and get a book title! So scanning the titles of past library book lists can be very helpful.

Anyway, here goes:

Ebbie by Eve Rice

Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys by H.A. Rey

Curious George by H. A. Rey

Platypus by Chris Riddell

Aren't You Coming Too? by Eve Rice

The Ladder by Halfdan Rasmussen

Come to My Party by Judith Richardson

Berry Magic by Teri Sloat

Tiger, Tiger by Dee Lillegard

The Stars Will Still Shine by Cynthia Rylant

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow

Animal Poems by Valerie Worth

Curious George Flies a Kite by Margret Rey

The Dot by Peter Reynolds

My Very Big Little World by Peter Reynolds

Cherry Pies and Lullabies by Lynn Reiser

Mud by Mary Lyn Ray


Today is our final insect "study" and we are doing the honeybee. We'll be heading out soon to visit Battle Creek Cypress Swamp and see their live honeybee hive exhibit (complete with a tube in the wall so the bees can get out and hunt for pollen, then return to the hive). Then we'll have something with honey in it for lunch, take naps, have snack, do some beeswax modeling (this is actually one of Gini Newcomb's suggestions -- go Gini!) complete with the beeswax verse from A Child's Seasonal Treasury by Betty Jones, page 29. It also helps to tell a story to the children while they sit and warm the beeswax in their hands, so I am going to do "The Fairy Weaver" (from the Wynstones Press Summer book). The story is on page 76 and there's also a song version of it in the book with lyrics on pages 34-36 and music on page 36.

Tonight is the showing of Microcosmos, to top the unit off (Natalie only).

Steve affixed the Ladybug Ranch to the side of the children's play house yesterday so today I will plant our rosebush, as well as to put lavender seeds all around our butterfly house. I always put lavender and honey together in my mind; I don't know why (I even wrote a newsletter topic about just these two things, it is on the website, called "Sticky Sweet"). Today just seems like the perfect day to plant all these things and then Sunday is Father's Day and Tuesday we start learning about Spiders!

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