TT - Charles Dickens and Friends

 Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures.  I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books out there hiding on shelves so I invite you to blog about a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library and add your post to Learning All the Time Favourite Resource Link Up. 


This week ...

Charles Dickens and Friends

Five lively retellings by

Marcia Williams

• Format: Paperback
• Number of Pages: 48 pages
• Vendor:  Walker Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2007
• ISBN 13: 9781406305630 
• ISBN 10: 1406305634
• Author : Marcia Williams
• Illustrator: Marcia Williams

Main description

Five of Dickens' most famous works are introduced in an exciting comic book style. Whilst retaining the characteristic feel of the Dickensian language, this book is highly accessible and is suitable for use at Key Stage 2. Ages: 7+.

This book has been the highlight of my past week.  I was at the op shop and found it.  I have been wanting to read Dickens to Sir N and this will be perfect.  Each page is just beautifully illustrated and there is enough of Dickensian language to capture and hold the imagination.  Marcia has done an absolute superb job of this book.  Love this book.  Pop on over to The Book Depository and see the range of books Marcia has written and illustrated.

The book contains these five books retold in comic format

1. Great Expectations
2. Oliver Twist
3. A Christmas Carol
4. David Copperfield
5. A Tale of two Cities 

Blessings

Check out Marcia's website

Anouncing the birth of Home School Chicks

http://www.homeschoolchicks.com/

Yesterday was their official hatching and to celebrate their birthday they have:

• A linky for homeschoolers on Pinterest.
• A Totally Awesome Homeschool Blog Roll
• Do you host a linky party ?  Add your party to the list.

There are five chicks in the nest

1. How to Chick is Heidi from How To Homeschool.
2. Organized Chick is Heather from Teaching My 3.
3. Fun Chick is Tamara from Teaching with TLC
4. Reading Chick is Annie from The Moffatt Girls.
5. Math Chick is Cindy from love 2 learn 2 day

Pop on over and say hello as well as follow this site for great HomeSchool support.

Blessings
Chareen

HSMJ - In need of your prayer

In my life this week…

Please pray for us.  My eldest son is having some serious health issues and we are in need of specialist appointments and I am anxious for answers and solutions.
As of now my son has been in hospital since Wednesday and so far all the tests have come back negative. (In most ways this is a good thing but at the same time it means that we still don't know why he has no feeling / movement in his legs from mid thigh down.)  We definitely need a revelation as to what is going on.

On a positive note however I placed my order with Sonlight and had the experience of our items arriving in under four days!

In our homeschool this week…
 

• We did a fire safety experiment and worked on completing our firesafety Notebook pages and Unit Study.
• We started our Who Is God ? And Can I Really Know Him? apologetics course from Apologia.Sir N is thrilled with his new Notebook and the stories.

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

iHomeschool Network is hosting a FREE printable link up party extravaganza. 

Erica from Confessions of a Homeschooler currently has World's Greatest Artists Vol 1 and World's Greatest Artisits Vol II for FREE until Sunday.

 I am inspired by…

Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…

• Saturday -I accompanied my friend to see the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.  The music was beautiful.
• Sunday - Went for a trip to the beach with friends who came to visit.
• Monday - Was a good day at home and in the evening I visited my sister with a friend who gave us a tutorial in making an explosion album.  I had fun learning to do this.  Sir N also did exercise class with the L family.
• Tuesday - We stayed home.  It's school holidays and we are resting. YAY
• Wednesday - Spent the whole day at hospital with no 1 son.
• Thursday - spent the afternoon at the hospital.  Still no answers.
• Friday - Spent a few hours at the hospital and went out my mom.

My favorite thing this week was…

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What’s working/not working for us…

• Having my first born in hospital with no answers and him wanting to check himself out.

Questions/thoughts I have…

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Things I’m working on…

• Fire Safety Unit Study.
• A blog post on composition in the high school years for the Home School the High School blog Carnival which will be on Monday.

On My Bedside Table ...

•  I finished reading  From a Distance by Tamera Alexander (Currently free on Kindle) while at the hospital with Mr T on Wednesday.
•  I have a few books but have not read much since Wednesday due to no 1 son's hospitalization.

In Bloggy world I’m reading…

• I have been poking around the free printing link up over at iHomeschool Network.

I’m cooking…

•  Not much.  I have been blessed with two cooked meals from a friend.

On Pinterest I found...

• A few more pins of interest.  I have been gathering resources to teach Shakespeare in the future with Sir N.

I’m grateful for…

•  The prayer warriors on the Sonlight Forums as well as my friends and family who are praying for Mr T while he is in hospital.

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…
In the introduction to A Child's History of the World in the introduction the author says this about teaching a child only about their own countries history:

"It only promotes a narrow-mindedness and an absurd conceit, based on utter ignorance of any other peoples and any other times - an intolerant egotism without foundation or fact." Virgil M. Hillyer.

Blessings

Chareen

This post is linking to:

Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers - Weekly Wrap-Up
iHomeschool - Homeschool Mother's Journal