Friday 9 May 2014

B is for bountiful blessings ...



B is for counting your blessing each day
Building up memories 
B is for birthdays each one a gift
Broadening horizons a daily affair

A blackboard for basic addition
Blending our letters with brilliant review
Books on display for all to explore a
Breath taking vistas to study and learn
Bolivia, Belgium, Britain and Bermuda

Blissfully baking biscuits for banquets
Boiling beef, barley and beets with more gravy
Budgeting weekly for bargains and more
Brownies, bananas and blueberries galore

Banning all bullying and boastful behaviour
It's better to be without bad behaviour
Building up character
Brushing up good manners

Bouncing a ball on the beach - a bonanza
Blissful blue sky with sun burning brown
Buckets, balloons and bubbles 

Bravely going on barnyard expeditions 
Bounding up bravely for

Bike rides and boating
Breaking baseball records for all to enjoy

Breathless with wonder to see 
Boa's and bees, bandicoots and bears
Bright bold birds branching and singing
Beautiful butterflies balancing on buttercups

Beware dear Mother
Be warned without sleep
Beauty will fade
and Burnout will be


Before it's too late
Blissfully soaking in bubble bathes
Basking in the Bible
with Bed time benedictions
and of course 

By counting your Blessings
B is for the best, the best you can do

If you missed the start of blogging through the alphabet you can read A is for answers to questions aplenty.

For more blogging through the alphabet on the letter B be sure to read Marcy's post B is for and see more B is for in the hop linky.

Blessings
Chareen


Ben and Me
Join Marcy over at Ben and Me Round 5 of Blogging through the Alphabet. Beginning on Monday, April 28, finishing up the week of Monday, October 20!

Marcy has challenged us to blog for all 26 weeks.  IF you are able to keep up you will have the opportunity to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card!
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Thursday 8 May 2014

Zentangle {Virtual Fridge}

This Week
Have you heard of zentangle ? I happened to stumble across it when looking up doodling on YouTube a few weeks ago. This is turn led me to look for FREE patterns online which I discovered at www.TanglePatterns.com After poking around for a while I found Chrissie Murphy Designs which inspired me to take the plunge and start tangling.



I found a small square book and decided to divide the page in four and work my way through the TanglePatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE, 2014 Edition trying out tangles. 


I've had so much fun doing Tangle patterns I decided to get Sir N started.  Here is his first attempt at zentangle. He chose to do the 2-N-5 pattern.


Featured This Week

Using art in geometry over at The Potters Hand Academy.


Kym shares her favourite Art Resources


Your Turn

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.
Virtual Fridge Link Up

Blessings
Chareen


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 co-host this weekly meme.

Your hosts are



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Tuesday 6 May 2014

Solar System


SOLAR SYSTEM
A Visual Exploration of the Planets, 
Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies 
that Orbit Our Sun.
  • Format: Hardback
  • Number of Pages: 224  
  • Publisher: FABER & FABER 
  • Publication Date: 
  • ISBN 10: 0571277713 
  • ISBN 13: 9780571277711 
  • Author Marcus Chown 
  • Illustrator: 
  • Purchase: Book Depository and Amazon.
A few weeks ago I shared with you my favourite chemistry book - The Elements.  Over the last few years I have developed an interest in Solar Eclipses and Lunar Eclipses. As a result of this I am always on the lookout for books about the universe. This week I discovered a book about the Solar System published by the same company who published The Elements book.

It is a visually stunning book.  You can take a look inside this book over at Amazon. As a christian family we do not believe in the big bang theory of where our universe came from so we skipped that part of the book.

Each part of the system starts off with a double page spread.  On the left page is a full page photograph of the sun, star or planet discussed.  The right hand page has a break down.  It contains a short summary, orbital data, physical data, atmospheric composition, a labeled cross section and a mean density graph.


Following this page is another double page spread of interesting photographs and then some other information about theories and famous scientists through the ages.

This book would make a wonderful gift to anyone who has an interest in the solar system.  

Description on Book Depository "In this title, bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insightful and surprising text are a wealth of beautiful images and diagrams, printed in full colour, richly detailed and accurately based on real scientific data. A perfect gift for anyone with an interest in astronomy, "The Solar System" allows the imagination to roam free from Mercury to Pluto and beyond."

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 and Resources out there out there hiding on shelves and somewhere on the internet.

I invite you to blog about

  • a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library,
  •  a great homeschool item you have found and
  •  any new resources you are enjoying. 
Grab the button for your post and add a link to your post below. I would love to read about your treasures. 
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