Books for Sale!!

 Hi Everyone!

I have an eclectic mix of books that we no longer need or want. A lot of them I've been given and not used. Some I bought brand new, but haven't used. I've uploaded pictures here;  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ls2qfjwza3t2ddm/HQ8eroiPCE       so you can have a look. It's worth viewing the album BACKWARDS (don't ask!!)

If there's anything you want just shout in the comment box (or email me ~ pcjjap at gmail dot com)

All prices exclusive of postage. 

SCIENCE:

• Primary Science - Knowledge & Understanding. This is more of a primary teachers 'guidebook'. £2
• 'Science Plus' (KS4 supporting text). £1
• 'Singapore' Start-Up Science ~ books 3 & 4 (KS1) ~ unused. £3
• 'Singapore' EPB i-Science Textbook 2 ~ unused. £2
• CGP KS1 Science ~ Study book & Question book ~ unused. £3
• CGP KS1 Science ~ Question book (duplicate) ~ a few pencilled in answers. £1
• Carol Vordermann KS1 Bk3 (5-7) ~ about 12 pages have pencilled in answers. Some stars already used. £1
• Lonsdale Science Textbook (KS2). £1

MATHS:

• GP ~ So You Really Want to Learn Maths ~ book 2 - textbook & answer book. £4
• Fun with Maths (Kingfisher). £2
• Inspiration for Maths (teachers book). £1.50
• MPH Maths 3B textbook ~ the mice got at this whilst in storage and ate the bottom of the first few pages (see pics). Seems we have some clever mice in our house! It doesn't affect any of the text though. £1
• SPMG Heinemann Maths 5 (textbook). £2
• Calculator Maths ~ quite a lot of pencilled in answers. £1

OTHER:

• Art Basics for children (unused) ~ has a slight mark on the back cover. £1
• 'How to be Top' Grammar ~ has some pencil work in, which could be erased. 50p
• Around the World in 80 Days (Geography) ~ 2 bk set ~ BRAND NEW! Bought, but not a good fit for us, so not used. Cost £25.  Stayed in shipping box for over a year now! £15
• Spelling Power ~ spelling program (?Sonlight) ~ in a binder ~ heavy! £5
• Spanish storybook (multilingual) ~ x-library book. £1

If you are coming to Christmas Camp I can bring with me what's not already sold, or anything you 'reserve' for you to choose and filter! That'll save you postage :D

Struck through books are already reserved for Kfish, but if you're at camp and she decides against them, they will be available there!

Shadow Links 4 Little Kids ~ Science & Literacy

Science
http://printables.familyeducation.com/tv/printables/orange/sp-33.pdf
http://cybrarian.edu.glogster.com/My-Shadow/
http://www.brainpopjr.com/science/energy/light/grownups.weml
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/F_Keeping_Cool_With_Shadows.html
http://www.sfscience.com/english/grade_1/unit_B/chap_2/act_5/1.htm
http://www.sciencekidsathome.com/science_experiments/sundial-1.html#more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/kids/sundial_base.pdf
http://www.yourskinandsun.com/article1097.html
http://familyfun.go.com/playtime/shadow-play-706838/

Literacy/Craft
http://www.yourskinandsun.com/article1097.html
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Stevenson-Robert-Louis.html
http://printables.familyeducation.com/tv/printables/hmco/cgtgacrosticpoem.pdf
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/haiku-scroll-663328/
http://printables.familyeducation.com/tv/printables/Moutran_0876283024_52.pdf
http://printables.familyeducation.com/tv/printables/Moutran_0876283024_139.pdf
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/shadow-puppets-663981/
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/squawking-parrot-669935/
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/lanky-giraffe-669945/
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/toothy-alligator-669955/
http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/pdfs/pdf3/tvs6636_shadowpuppets.pdf

Just had to post today...

Today has been one of those days when I get to see my 'hands off' approach with my youngest three beginning to bear fruit. Admittedly I feel they all spend too much time on the computer, but I am the world's worst example in regards to thats, so..! But today I did manage to prize Stitch off Poissonrouge and he has a much more 'productive' day :D But it wasn't just him...

Here's a glimpse of today (warning ~ photo overload upcoming!);

I bought a new game in ToyRUs on Saturday that I'd had my eye on for a while. DD and Stitch both found it easy to play, but they also both enjoyed it VERY much ~ here's hoping it comes out lots :D It was good for DD to work on his shape names (he almost remembers them all) and for Stitch to work on both colours - although he pretty much gets them correct now - and shape names which are newish to him. He can match them up though :D The big girls were wanting to play along too ~ so that was fine by me! They really enjoy playing with the little ones at times.

Lilo is rapidly falling in love with rods and she worked well on this today :D

Then I introduced her to another new game I found on the net last night ~ she enjoyed it (despite her face in the next picture, which I included just because it's funny!) and it was an easy way to point out some sequence patterns to her. She continued with ease until she'd used up all the dominos :D

I spent a large chunk of my afternoon making THESE & THESE (if you click the links you can download them). They are based on a Melissa and Doug toy that I have also had my eye on for a while, but can't justify the expense of for only eight words and some wooden letters (that I already have), so I decided I could make them ~ and did. I'm really pleased with them, but more to the point DD is rapt! He even wanted to help me choose which words to make (he chose panda, and bear). I've made them double sided. The colour side co-ordinates with the wooden letters I have and will make it easier for Stitch to play with too, but DD can manage the B&W side with relative ease. It was good to see that he is beginning to be able to recognise some of the letter (thanks to Ed City and Starfall !) :D

but DD also had his own idea about how he wanted to use these! Autonomy at it's best :D He wouldn't go to bed until he'd had a go at this and it was a REALLY good idea ~ better than he knew in fact. He wanted to open up Tuxpaint and use the 'writing' tool to write the words. This of course meant he had to look carefully at each letter and then try to find it's matching capital on the keyboard. Some he could do, others he needed me to tell him, but I can see that within a quite short time he could make the links this way and have the added benefit of then knowing where the letters are on the keyboard. The reward of course was that when he hit the correct key he got to see the lowercase letter on screen - further reinforcing the links :D BUT there was more to this too - it was really helping him take his time to hear the letter sounds and hear how they work to make words. He can identify beginning sounds and has been able to for a while, but tonight he was getting to grips with middle and end sounds too, which are always much harder :D

School at bedtime is not the ideal I know, but I decided to play it his way and I was so glad I did :D

New Tools for Smalls!

I woke up to the sound of noisy dinn this morning. That never bodes well for me and put me instantly into an "I can't deal with this today!" kind of mood, so to avoid monstrous levels of confrontation I hid as much as I could all day! Of course I was physically present, but I think the kids knew all too well that in mind I was 'not in'! Despite that they seemed to have a relatively OK day. I had planned their boxes back on Saturday, so despite not having filled them last night (in favour of watching a film with Paul) they were able to quickly stock them up from my list and carry on with school.

Later in the day some more of my order of new resources for my under 5's came - bearing in mind that I will not likely be sending NJ to playgroup unless I learn to drive, I thought I'd better get sorted with him. I must confess some of the inspiration for this bean-baggy order came from Carisa over 1+1+1=1. So here are some photos from today and yesterday & my 'tot-tray' shelf which I just got organised. Some of NJ's were completely self-instigated (the dominos), some were him mucking in with CT (finger painting), some were 'tweeked' by him - beads go from threading to pouring! and others he played along with my plan for - well almost!! I've discovered this week he can thread round beads on pipe-cleaners and flat beads on laces, he can colour match red, blue and yellow and he can picture match, with some pretty nice attempts at finding labels for the pictures (I used one lotto board & tiles for this - he loved it).

TRAY-SHELVING

THREADING BEADS ON PIPE-CLEANERS

EXPLORING THE ROLL OF DIFFERENT SHAPED BEADS

COLOUR SORTING (NO PROBLEM MUM!!) - AND NAMING!

BEAD POURING - NOW THAT'S MORE FUN!!

FINGER PAINTING - TIME TO GET MESSY!!

REALLY - MESSY!!

LINE-UP, LINE-UP!!

THREADING BUTTON BEADS ON STRING - EASY!!

(BUT IT DOES TAKE A LITTLE CONCENTRATION ;) )

TIME TO LINE-UP AGAIN - AND THEN STACK BACK UP.

NOW LETS SEE HOW ELSE THEY LINE UP...

NOW FOR THE NEW STUFF - HOW MUDDLED CAN I MAKE THIS!!

NOT SURE WHAT TO DO WITH THESE YET, BUT THEY LOOK LIKE FUN :D

DO YOU LIKE MY SMILE? ;D

Aside from Tot-school, CT has been very keen to 'do school' and his big question atm is "What's that letter?" So I think my alphabet buy will be a big hit with him too. Perhaps even better for him that NJ, but hey-ho - whatever. It seems he already knows 'curly c', 'kicking k', 'o' and 'ex' - so that's a good start considering I've taught him nothing so far! He was also making an attempt to write his name free hand today which is great :D (see pictures). He has also pretty much mastered lacing cards this week. He kept going back to it until he completed his way around one whole picture and despite the frustration of entanglement, he still persisted to the end - major progress :D

Ellie also suprised me today with the way she was able to play with the pattern shapes. She made some lovely pictures with them :D

PATTERN SHAPES AND LACING - YUP SUSSED THAT THEN!

LOOK - I WROTE MY NAME ALL BY MYSELF!!

I have decided to have a quick fly through Jolly Grammar with Phoebe as when going into Year 3 she tell me "I don't know how to write a sentance!" I feel a little paniced!! I'm not really sure this is true, but she obviously is not confident with her writing skills, so we are going to cover some 'ground rules' and then hopefully she will feel better equiped, and after all - I never actually did do JG with her because her reading was so far behind, so I guess there probably might be some gappy holes that need patching :D.

There has been a stack of cartoon drawing going on too - with the purchase of 6 whiteboards. The ones I've posted are JAH's and one is a bit gruesome, but is pretty brilliant all the same. I'll try to get some the others do over the next few days too - they really are pretty cool - even if they do rapidly consume my whiteboard markers!! :D

GRUESOME BUT AWESOME - by JAH

TOO COOL! by JAH

MUMMY'S FAVOURITE SHOT OF THE DAY!! :D