Let's Read & Find Out Science ~ Tuesday's Treasures

The Let's Read And Find Out Science series of books are definitely one little treasure that I am very happy to have my shelves. They get used a lot!

There are 2 levels in this series, with Level 1 aimed at Preschoolers and early Elementary years, Level 2 is slightly older.

Right now we are focused on all things related to the human body, hence these images, but there is a whole range of science books in this series, covering all manner of topics.

Some of them are a little harder to find but they are worth hunting down.

I found this on the Harper Collins website showing all of the currently available books in Level 2 and here for the Level 1 series.


This post is linked up at Tuesday's Treasures, over at Every Bed of Roses
 

Ponding - Tuesday's Treasures

Ponding by Wilhelmina Wallis is great little book packed full of hands on activities for children to do near and about your local pond.

I mentioned that we are using this book as part of our Year Long Pond Study and I wanted to share more of it with you.

A quick glance over the contents page of this book and you will quickly notice that there is an abundance of activities and information to be found inside, covering all manner of subject areas.

The pages are black and white but with lovely well drawn illustrations.

 

Every activity is very clearly laid out and if a check sheet or data record sheet is required that is also supplied for you to copy.

This book really does cover so many areas of a pond ecosystem.

You can purchase a copy of Ponding from the Gould League website.

I have purchased this copy myself and have not been compensated in any way for this post. I simply wanted to share this fabulous resource with all of you.

I am linking this to Tuesday's Treasures, over at Every Bed of Roses
 

Book Club - Week 1, Term 2

Through LHEN we have organsied a children's book club at Logan Library, we had the first meet up today. It was always going to be a little unknown as to how many would show up and what the age mix would be.

The librarian (Jenny) used today as a 'getting to know you' day. The children were asked to brainstorm lists of books that they enjoyed. They could inlcude, favourite authors, series, themes, anything really that they liked to read about. As you can imagine the list was long, very long!

From that list a theme for the month was chosen - ANIMALS - so B7 and K4 now need to choose a book that relates in some way to animals. We will take the books they have read along with us to the next club meet up in a month's time for discussion and activities revolving around the ANIMAL theme.

From there it was library treasure hunt time. The children were broken into groups and were given a set of clues that had them hunting and meandering through the children's section of the library. This was fun, for both the big kids and the little and it gave all of us an opportunity to really see where everything is in the library.

We are looking forward to future book clubs, wonder what they'll have in store for us next time.