TT - Puzzle Journey Under the Sea

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Usborne Young Puzzles

Puzzle Journey

Under the Sea

• Format: Paper back / Hardback
• Number of Pages: 32
• Vendor:  Usborne Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 28 August 1998
• ISBN:9780746026854
• Author L. Sims
• Illustrator: S. Stitt

Sir N found this delightful book at the library last week.  We have had such a great time reading and exploring the pictures as we try to solve the puzzle.  The illustrations are alive with colour and expression.  Every page is full of facts about the sea and all that lives in it. We have traveled to icy mazes in the Antarctic  explored the deepest parts of the ocean where the sun does not shine, discovered robots who work in the seas, found lost underwater cities, explored warm coral reefs to name but a few.  We have both delighted and enjoyed this treasure and if you have young children in your home please see if your library has this one on it's shelf.

Blessings

 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. 

St James Old Cathedral

We visited Melbourne's oldest church last week Thursday after seeing the Narnia Exhibition.

This wooden cross is on top of the baptismal font in front of the church.  It was a gift from Queen Victoria and brought by La Trobe.  It was the baptismal font from St Katherine's Abbey, London.

Baptismal Font

This was Melbourne's Cathedral from 1848 - 1891

Beautiful stain glass windows line all the walls in this church and the lady who heads up the archives is a fountain of knowledge about each one.

The woodwork is just amazing.  Even more interesting was the old organ in the church.  One of the gentleman came and played it for us and allowed the children a turn.

The detail in the archetecture was a delight and we spent a good two hours exploring.

More on the www

• Wikipedia
• Vicnet
• Walk Melbourne

Do you have any interesting buildings nearby ?

Blessings

HSMJ - A New Year A New Beginning

In my life this week…

Source

Happy New Year to you all! It's a new year and a new beginning.

This is a year I desire to become healthy and trim.  To aid me in my journey I have purchased Trim Healthy Mama.  I'm not an extreme health conscience make everything holistic kind of person but I do realize I need to make some changes that will suite my family too.
I am tired of feeling tired, cranky, in pain and I want NEED a change and it needs to be for me and no one else.... Now the waiting game begins .... counting down the days till the postie arrives with my new book :)

I had grand plans to start back to school this week but that did not happen the way I intended so we spent the week watching classic movies and reading the books we brought home from the library.
In our home school this week…

• We made our way to the library and found some books to continue our Expedition Earth studies.
• Focusing on reading skills.
• We watched three DVD's this week: 
  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
  The Wizard of OZ
  Beauty and the Beast with Rebecca De Mornay and John Savage
• From the library we read
  Merry Christmas to You, Blue Kangaroo! by Emma Chichester Clark
  A bus called heaven by Bob Graham
  Did Castles have Bathrooms by Ann Kerns
  Santa Koala by Colin Buchanan
  Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner ** This is a great book and is written in prose
  If You Lived Here by Giles Laroche
  The Classic Tale of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Narrated by Greg Hildebrandt

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

• SOTW Vol 1 Resources for Chapter 0 {Archaeology} over at Motessori Tidbits
• FREE Valentines Day Note Pack {Limited Time} by In the Hands of a Child over at Gricefully Homeschooling
• Heritage Store is offering Stories from Roman History for FREE
• FREE - Be My Valentine Lapbook for Grades Pre K - 2nd over at Kathy's Cluttered Mind.
•  Membership over at Notebooking Pages.com has changed.  Membership is now a Life Time membership with access to past, present and future pages.

I am inspired by…

• Artistic people who create amazing buttons for blog hops and design back grounds for blogs.
• Sally Clarkson who heart from One Heart to another this week.

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

• We visited friends and family this week.

My favorite thing this week was…

• I was super proud of Paul and Sir N who featured on TV this week as they were part of the Zoo's Victoria Bandicoot release.
• being gifted a copy of Ann Voskamp's book: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are (Hardback)

What’s working/not working for us…

• these very hot days!  Today it has been 42'C (107.6 'F)

Questions/thoughts I have…

• How do you do it "all" and fit it 'all' in ?

Things I’m working on…

• Preparing to start a full week of school next week

On My Bedside Table ...

•  I've started reading Teaching the Trivium again.

In Bloggy world I’m reading…

•  Nurturing a Project Learning Environment over at Harmony Fine Arts at Home.
• Kindle Freebies Daily over at Ben and Me
• Lose Baby Weight 
• Dear Homeschool Dad over at Ben and Me
• 5 Easy Ways to Incorporate Music in 2013 over at Homegrown Learners.

I’m cooking…

•  Nothing new this week

On Pinterest I found...

• Cathy James @ Nurture Store has some amazing boards for you to pin from.

I’m grateful for…

•  Those who support and encourage me daily

A photo, video, link, or quote to share…

Blessings

This post is linking to:

Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers - Weekly Wrap Up
iHomeschool - Homeschool Mothers Journal
Hammock Tracks - It's a Wrap

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