*The Little House* is a book I remember reading as a child. It was fun to share it with Arielle and Nolan today. 
We finished up our study of the San Francisco Earthquake with *Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco* by Kathleen Kudlinski. We really enjoyed this one as well.
I was excited to give the Ruth Heller books a try. We chose *Merry-Go-Round* to be our first because we were trying to feature nouns and verbs this week. We LOVED the photos! The book was really good and I think I'd like to find the series to own. However, I think for the level of Arielle and Nolan - just being introduced to grammar the other series by Brian Cleary was better. They have much less information in the books. BUT the Ruth Heller books would "last" longer because there is lots of info in the book....not just what a noun IS but then collective nouns, possesive nouns, plurals etc. The children loved the pictures in Ruth Heller but agreed that they understood the words of the other series better. We have some of both for next week. I really like both series. 
*Round Up A Texas Number Book* by Carol Crane is a fun book to learn basic numbers. The extra bennie we are liking from this book are the little TX tidbits in the side bars.
We got school done in good time and then headed to the park with friends....
3 comments:
Regarding the Ruth Heller books. I have on occasion seen them in the Scholastic book order catalogs. They are usually $1.00 or so cheaper that way (compared to the homeschool discount at big name book stores). If I see any, I'll sure let you know. I'll have to look for the other series as something fun to read. One of my friends has convinced me to try the library again... this time using the infomobile... we'll see.
Cynthia
I got our set of Ruth Heller books from www.bookcloseouts.com. They seem to come up fairly regularly there.Do an author search every once in awhile. Her science books are just as good as her L.A. ones. You can't go wrong with this author. They are read again and again books, that's why they're good to have.
I got a few titles from Chris too, so you might check her first!
Good tips Jodi...
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