TT - Favorite Poems of Childhood

Favorite Poems of Childhood
*Unabridged*

• Format: Paper back
• Number of Pages:96 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication Date:01 February 1993
• ISBN 10: 0486270890
• ISBN 13:9780486270890
• Edited by:Philip Smith
• Illustrator: Harriet Golden

Contains poems such as:

• Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter, " 
• Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-cat, " 
• Eugene Field's "Dutch Lullaby" ("Wynken, Blynken, and Nod"), 
• Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody! Who are you?, " 
• William Blake's "The Tyger, " 
• Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Swing, " and many more.

Poetry is not my forte but it is something I would love to do and do well with Sir N.  Yesterday we had a home school mother's meeting where we discussed incorporating poetry in our homes.  I was remided of this little treasure I read to my first two 15 years ago when we first started home educating.  Sir N and I recently started reading our way through it.

It's a small book with a few illustrations sprinkled through out.  If you are starting out with poetry with primary aged students I encourage you to start with this one.  The poems are beautiful.  It's not complicated simply read a poem or two a week and enjoy the words together.

What is your favorite poetry resource ?
Blessings
Chareen

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 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. Grab the button for your post and add a link to your post below. I would love to read about your treasures. 

HSMJ - Scientific Adventures and Fireworks

In my life this week…
My mom discovered a book written about the life of my great great great great grandparents. I have ordered a copy and am looking forward to reading it.
I'm still trying to get my act together and join The Pebble Pond Beauty Captured challenge ... I was extremely frustrated about a photography course that was touted as being Free turned out to be an advertisement to sign up after the first week...
In our home school this week…

• This was week four of our five week cycle.  Sir N was sick for three out of the five days.  So we will do a light school week next week to make up for what we missed this week even though it's supposed to be our holiday week.
• We are enjoying Charlottes Web and Seed Sowers Gospel Planting Adventures 
• Science this week was a blast.  We went across town (an hour and a half drive one way) to play in a highschool science lab!
• We had heaps of fun making and playing with HexaFlexagons

Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…

• Beware the "Expert" over at HEDUA 
• FREE & Cheap Bible Study Tools for Kids over at Ben and ME 
•  Murrayshire Academy has the most amazing FREE printables/Schedules/Resources list
• 1777 New England Primer Cursive Printable Alphabet set over at Growing Home
• 1777 New England Primer Manuscript Printable Alphabet set
• The Shorter Word Timeline of Western Civilization over at The Shorter Word
• The Paper Train Station over at The Paper Maid.  Deborah has found and is building a beautiful paper model train station.  Pop on over to see more
• The Homeschooling Critic Who has decided to Homeschool over at Visionary Womanhood
• Read about The Seven Wonders of the World book over at Homeschool Coffee Break
• How to use Scrapbooking for the Reluctant Writer over at Aussie Homeschool

I am inspired by…

• For the One who Married Young over at Addie Zierman I loved this post. 
• The Joy and Profit of Reading Aloud over at Visionary Womanhood
• Heart-rending’: Young Slovakian sculptor captures post-abortion pain, mercy and forgiveness 
• This is a great speech Ashton Kutcher Reveals His First Name at Teen Choice Awards.

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

• We travelled across town to go to a science class and played with milk, water and soap to explore the properties of surface tension. 
• Spent the evening in Docklands and went to see the Docklands Fireworks.  Boy was it cold out there!
• Tennis
• A birthday party and a mini trip to the zoo

My favorite thing this week was…

• Was finding two great websites that help to make widgets.  If you are looking for a grab my button code generator go to: Grab My Button Code Generator and to create a Google+ Button go to Widgets Plus
• Reading 10 Clues That You Might Be a Homeschool Kid 
• The Surprising Benefit of Having Siblings over at Yahoo! Shine

What’s working/not working for Me…

• Gosh I feel so annoyed with scare / bully tactics have you seen this Labor to cut tax benefit for parents who don't immunise children and what are your thoughts ?
• I was deeply saddened and grieved when I stumbled upon this article Twenty weeks pregnant with twins, but last week she had an abortion

Questions/thoughts I have…

• How on earth do you use Google+ ?  I finally found a way to add a widget with my Google+ account to this blog BUT I realised that for some reason my stuff is not public :(  Please can you tell me how to use it or where I can find a good tutorial for my tired brain ...

Things I’m working on…

• Applying for positions to review some new products on the Schoolhouse Review Crew.

On My Bedside Table ...

• I've been reading instruction manuals to use a DSLR camera

In Bloggy world I’m reading…

• Want to be encouraged ?  Read 3 Things I Wish I Knew Before We Got Married
• How a single income family can afford a whole-food diet over at Growing Home
• 10 Healthy Snacks Children Love
• 16 Veggies You can re-grow from kitchen scraps over at herbs info
• 5 Cliches you should NEVER say to someone who is grieving.  This struck a chord with me.  I think this pretty much applies to any woman who has lost a pregnancy too.
• This YouTube clip made me cry.  My heart went out to this man. The Most Honest And Heartbreaking Reason To Leave Your Front Door Unlocked I've Ever Heard
• Very interresting read about the affects of crop spraying Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought
• This is a great list and interesting point of view over at Relevant 11 Questions Every Twentysomething Should Ask
• .Terminally Ill Bride Given Dream Wedding a $50,000 gift
• I am constantly amazed at what people do What an amazing transformation for your old cot.
• Over at Growing Home Infertility and Hormones: Is there a Connection?
• I'm An Outcast over at The Focused Homemaker. 
• Three Things You Don't Know about Your Children and Sex over at Anne Marie Miller.
• The Joy and Profit of Reading Aloud 

I’m cooking…

• same old same old ...

On Pinterest I found...

• YouTube Video's for Vol 1 The Mystery of History

I’m grateful for…

• Saints who are faithful prayer warriors and pray for me diligently

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


Blessings

Chareen

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HexaFlexagon

Welcome to the Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to take turns hosting this weekly meme.

Your hosts are

• Jennifer at A Glimpse of our Life - 29 August
• Kym at Homeschool Coffee Break - 5 September
• Nikki at Angels of Heart - 12 September
• Chareen over here - 19 September

This week Sir N and I have been playing with HexaFlexagon's.

A Flexagon is a flat geometric model constructed out of folding strips of paper to form a moveable/flexible shape.  When flexed these shapes reveal different faces/facets of the shape produced. They were discovered by Arthur Stone in 1939.

Over at Aunt Annie's Crafts you can download and print either a patterned, numbered or blank template to colour in. She also has a step by step tutorial.

My nephews school sent home a pdf link to some instructions and templates you can find HERE.


I had a little trouble with folding it so I watched this video which is a step by step on making one from a piece of blank paper without a template.





For an over view and history of the Hexaflexagon is watch this clip. She speaks very fast but it's still interresting.


I have since found out that you can make a TriHexaFlexagon which is a lot easier.

We're having a lot of fun with these.  Do you know of any other mathematical game puzzles along these lines that we could try ?

Blessings
Chareen

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.

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