What My Child is Reading - February 27, 2010

This week we read:

Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven, a fanciful, rhyming story, with a recipe for bringing sunshine to a gloomy day. Click, here, for more on the book, and the bread.

On Purim by Cathy Goldberg Fishman, explaining the symbols, and traditions of Purim, which we read for our stART project.

The Mystery Bear, a Purim Story by Leone Adelson, a super cute story of a bear cub, who wakes up early from his hibernation, and sneaks out of his den in search of a snack. He finds himself invited into a Purim celebration, where he is complemented on his costume, and given honey, and poppy seed snacks, until the Purimspiel begins, and it is discovered, that he's not wearing a costume at all! It's a sweet story, but the bear, is a real bear, and while it's fuzzy, and teddy bear like on most of the pages, it does look angry, and a little frightening, at one point.

One Nation, America by the Numbers, and A is for America, An American Alphabet by Devin Scillian. Both are put out by Sleeping Bear Press, and are very much like the state books we've been reading, by that publisher, except encompassing America as a whole. Just like the state books, they have a few short sentences about an American attribute, good for younger children, with a couple of paragraphs of expanded explanation to the side, for older children, and adults.

Finally, today we're reading The Periodic Table, Elements With Style!, but I won't tell you about it, yet. I'm hoping to give it it's own post, later today. But, first we're working on some cookies to go with it.


All of the book cover images above, were borrowed from the Montana public libraries' shared catalogue.

For more reviews and recommendation of children's literature, click over to this week's What My Child is Reading link up, at Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns.

It's great to be a homeschooler.