Cleaning Out! - Books for Sale

I have several books I have cleared off our bookshelves that I'm ready to pass on to another family.

 Lightning Literature Teacher's Guide $10.00 (Retail $20)  Here is the link to their website.

 Easy Make & Learn Projects - Colonial America $5.00

 

2 books - Hands On History - Pioneers and American Adventures 1776-1876 (stories of famous Americans) $5.00  

 Evan Moor Readers' Theater - Grade 4   $5.00

 Evan Moor Literature Pockets - Tall Tales Gr. 4-6 $5.00

 Usborne Puss in Boots (hardcover - gently used) $5.00

 Usborne Percy and the Pirates (hardcover - gently used) $5.00

 Usborne Armor (Hardcover - like new) $5.00

2 Kay Arthur books - Lord, Teach Me to Pray for Kids, and How to Study your Bible for Kids  $10.00/set (softcovers - like new)

 Usborne Cowboys (hardcover) $5.00

 Activities for Any Spelling Unit - Primary  $3.00

 Writing for 100 Days $5.00

 Famous Americans - Read, Sing and learn mini-books Grade 2-4 $3.00

 

30 Biography Book Reports  Grade 2-4 $3.00

 A Beka Art B book (I bought from a used book sale, it was already written in - we never used it)  $3.00

 Shurley English Level 3 teacher's manual (older printed edition) $10.00  Here is their website.

 Easy Grammar Grade 3 Teacher's manual and student manual all in one book $15.00 Here is a link to their website.

 First Spanish Words $5.00

 Lyrical Life Science - Volume 2 (never opened) $10.00  Here is a link to their website.

 Easy Grammar Grade 6 Teacher's manual and student manual all in one book $15.00 Here is a link to their website.

Spanish with audio CD $7.00

Leave a comment here or e-mail me at mmmysmll at gmail dot com.  Thanks for looking!!

Creepy Crawlies

One of the classes I'm teaching this semester is Insects.  I'm actually teaching it twice - once for younger children, and once for older children.  We went to Minnetrista recently for a Creepy Crawlies field trip.  Here they are searching for insects in the grasses and plants.

 Then we went inside and talked about the different types of creepy crawlies- insects, arachnids and worm-like creatures.  They played a matching game.

 Then we talked about pollen and how insects have sticky feet and get the pollen on their feet when they walk on plants to eat.

 Lastly, they played a game.  The first person in line is the egg, the next person is the larva (jumping in a sack), the next person is the chrysalis (wearing a pillowcase) and the last person has the wings for the butterfly.

Monocots VS. Dicots

As Nicolas moves through his Apologia Botany textbook, he is learning many new things.  If you have ever seen bean plants come up out of the ground, you notice 2 parts that look like leaves.  These are really the 2 parts of the seed.  Bean plants are dicots - meaning 2 parts.  Monocots have only 1 part to the seed. Here are pictures he took of Monocots in our yard.  You can tell they are monocots because the veins in the leaves come straight up from the middle.  Dicot leaves have a many vein called a midrib and other veins branch out from that one - like a maple leaf.