Yet Another Book List

Edit - again - because I don't feel like starting another book list post...
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Chip Wants A Dog - William Wegman
Edna's Tale - Lisze Bechtold
Treasure Hunt - Allan Ahlberg
Saturday Sancocho - Leyla Torres
Cinderella - William Wegman
Holly Blooms Garden - Sarah Ashman and Nancy Parent
The Full Belly Bowl - Jim Aylesworth
Clifford Gets A Job - Norman Bridwell
Snow Day - Margaret McNamara
Jack and Rick - David McPhail
Meet Kit - Valerie Tripp
Blue's Big Birthday - Angela C. Santomero
Pony Crazed Princesses/Princess Ellie Solves A Mystery - Diana Kimpton
Clifford Goes to Hollywood - Norman Bridwell
Little Critter Storybook Collection - Mercer Mayer
Arthur Goes to Camp - Marc Brown
At Ellis Island/A History In Many Voices - Louise Peacock
The Nutcracker Ballet - Vladimir Vagin
Clifford's First Sleepover - Norman Bridwell
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving - Louisa May Alcott
The Snail House - Allan Ahlberg
If I Ran The Circus - Dr. Seuss

heh - just found more out in the living room - apparently the girls cleaned the library out of Berenstain Bears... ;)

The B. Bears Get Stage Fright - Stan & Jan Berenstain
The B. Bears Think of Those In Need - Stan & Jan Berenstain
The B. Bears and the Big Question - Stan & Jan Berenstain
The B. Bears and the Trouble With Money - Stan & Jan Berenstain
Dora's Book of Manners - Christine Ricci
Josefina's Surprise/A Christmas Story - Valerie Tripp


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Bringing in the New Year - Grace Lin
The Greatest Potatoes - Penelope Stowell
September Roses - Jeanette Winter
Shy Vi - Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Gretchen Groundhog, It's Your Day! - Abby Levine
The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party - Stan & Jan Berenstain
The Berenstain Bears adn the New Baby - Stan & Jan Berenstain
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday - Stan & Jan Berenstain
I'm Not A Baby! - Jill McElmurry
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes - Rose Lewis
Every Year On Your Birthday - Rose Lewis
The Princess Knight - Cornelia Funke
Sky Sash So Blue - Libby Hathorn
The Berenstain Bears By The Sea - Stan & Jan Berenstain
The Berenstain Bears Ride The Thunderbolt - Stan & Jan Berenstain
A Piece of Home - Sonia Levitin
Lili On Stage - Rachel Isadora
All By Myself - Anna Grossnickel Hines
Just Like Floss - Kim Lewis
Plant ABC - Patricia Whitehouse
Tick Tock - David K. Williams
The Creepy Computer Mystery - Elizabeth Levy
My Favorite Foods - Dana Meachen Rau
The Karate Class Mystery - Elizabeth Levy
The Snack Attack Mystery - Elizabeth Levy
Young Cam Jansen and the Substitute Mystery - David A. Adler
Young Cam Jansen and the Double Beach Mystery - David A. Adler
The Supermarket Mice - Margaret Gordon
Nicky and the Big Bad Wolves - Valeri Gorbachev
IQ Gets Fit - Mary Ann Fraser
IQ, It's Time - Mary Ann Fraser
The Vegetables We Eat - Gail Gibbons
Fishing - Diana Engel
Insects - Melissa Stewart
Emmett's Pig - Mary Stolz
Brave Charlotte - Anu Stohner
Kami and the Yaks - Andrea Stenn Stryer
John Muir and Stickeen, An Icy Adventure with a No-Good Dog - Julie Dunlap and Marybeth Lorbiecki

Ahnika's Tests

Quick update while I sit here allll hyped up waiting for my hubby to get home...

Ahnika had her 1st Grade California Achievement Test last week for homeschooling. It went quite well!!!! YAY!

Her language reading vocabulary was scored at 3rd grade level.

Her language reading comprehension was scored at 4th grade level!!! WOW!

Her math skills were scored exactly (to the month) at her current first grade level.

Her math computation was a bit lower - but still within range... AND considering the fact that it was the very first part of her test, she'd never taken one before, and the equations that the guy read off to me that she had missed were simple compared to what we've been doing here, I'm not worried about it... Though it did bug me for a few days since I know she's better at it than that, even if it isn't her strong point!

But good grief! I am SO stinkin' proud of her for the reading!!!!!!!! And thrilled! I was expecting close to 3rd grade reading level - but even higher at age 6! W00T! :0)

So homeschooling seems to be working out well!

And Talia is getting better at reading every day! And has surpassed the "kindergarten readiness list". *RELIEF*

I need to get back in the swing of things again pretty soon though so that the ball doesn't get dropped!

God is good!

I Really SHOULD be...

...Ironing.
On a scale of one to ten that probably rates right about a 3 in house-work thrills, however. Thus, here I sit, wasting time.
The last couple of days haven't been vastly unproductive though, truthfully... I completed the tedious task of taking alllll of the girls' fall and winter clothing items out of their drawers and closets, and going through bags and rubbermaid containers of spring and summer clothing to replace them with. There simply isn't room for everything to be out at once. I found that Talia now has an over-abundance of shorts and capris for this summer. I mean a TON! Jules has quite a large amount of clothing as well. Ahnika needs a couple pairs of shorts, due to her growth spurt of at least 4-5 inches over the past 6 months, but that will be remedied shortly!

The last load of such clothing is currently in the washer! Thank You, Lord! (Even though the storage is "air-tight" I cannnot bring myself to put it directly into their room without washing it first.)

In other news, Ahnika is going over addition and subtraction flashcards in preparation for her CATesting this Thursday morning (which I'm terrified over, considering she's never taken an SAT type test before and likes to take her sweet time answering questions around here... ARGH.)

Talia has made GREAT progress in reading over the past couple of weeks! That's a huge answer to prayer and I'm thrilled!!! She's done wonderfully!

Jules is sick. Again. Every time she's in the church nursery, she gets a nasty fever/cold/congestion/cough deal. There are a LOT of kids in there though, so it's inevitable. Still aggravating however... She's way behind on her shots, and has been consistently sick and unable to get them for a while now. Poor baby. I kept her out for a month or so earlier in the winter when the REALLY bad flu and stomach virus were going around. Dean and I took turns staying home with her. That did wonders!!! And I do know it's the nursery, as that's the only place she really goes other than the park lately. Ah well... Infant tylenol and motrin is a God-send! :)

Orville is about to be sent to Myanmar to feed the starving. And I don't mean by playing pack mule with food packages. HEH.


Our family may be undergoing some major changes within the next few months. More on that later! In the meantime, just pray for wisdom and courage and clarity!

Oh - happy sidenote of the day.. it's in the 50's outside today!!!! I'm thrilled! A great break from the 80 degree heat and humidity we'd already been experiencing this May! ;)

Library Book List

A little late, but I have to return a decent chunk of them today...

-The United States, An Illustrated History - National Geographic
-Granite Baby - Lynne Bertrand
-Rachel, The Story of Rachel Carson - Amy Ehrlich
-Not Norman, A Goldfish Story - Kelly Bennett
-And What Comes After a Thousand? - Anette Bley
-Emily and Alice Again - Joyce Champion
-Banjo Granny - Sarah Martin Busse & Jacqueline Briggs Martin
-Arthur's Jelly Beans - Marc Brown
-Arthur's Tooth - Marc Brown
-Barbie, No Teasing Allowed - Louise Gikow
-CinderEdna - Ellen Jackson
-Dancing With Katya - Dori Chaconas
-Spring for Strawberry Shortcake - Monique Z. Stephens
-Angel Coming - Heather Henson
-Star Blanket - Pat Brisson
-Frederic Chopin - Mike Venezia
-Strawberry Shortcake's Seaberry Mystery - Sonia Sander
-Annie and Snowball and the Dress-up Birthday - Cythia Rylant
-Inside an Egg - Sylvia A. Johnson
-Arthur Babysits - Marc Brown
-Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native America - Joseph Bruchac
-America, An Illustrated History - TIME
-C is for Clown, A Circus of C Words - Stan and Jan Berenstain
-Cooking with the Cat - Christopher Moroney
-Road to Reading, Cat Hat - Michelle Knudsen
-The Story of Babar the Little Elephant - Jean De Brunhoff
-Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus - Kari James
-That Bad, Bad Cat - Claire Masurel
-My Neck and Shoulders - Lola M. Schaefer
-Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm - Herman Parish
-All Aboard Reading, Bad Hair Day - Susan Hood
-Digby and Kate 1,2,3 - Barbara Baker
-Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy - Jane O'Connor
-Chowder - Peter Brown
-Maple Moon - Connie Brummel Crook
-Young Cam Jenson and the Lost Tooth
-Young Cam Jenson and the Baseball Mystery
-The Secret Path
-Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
-Katy and the Big Snow
-Lentil
-The Day the Picture Man Came
-The Runaway
-A Little Bit of Trouble
-Chicken Soup for Little Souls: Della Sp
-Splish! Splosh! Why Do We Wash?
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