Happy Saturday My Friends!!!

 

 

I hope my readers will please post a comment on my blog and I still have a Disney Princess book to give to one of my readers.  So post a comment and I will be glad to give away the free book.  Today I have another great fall book for elementary age children.  So check out my post below and be sure to make a comment .  I would love to hear from my readers.  Hope each of you have a terrific weekend.  See you Monday.

 

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Count Down to Fall

by

Fran Hawk

Illustrated

by

Sherry Neidigh

 

 

     This book has beautiful illustrations of fall trees, leaves, and cute animals.  Children can also learn how to count backwards from 10 to 1 in this book.  The children will learn about the  trees with bright leaves from which they fall.  There are aspen, birch, maple, oak, chestnut, linden, pine, beech, dogwood, and sweet gum.   I really enjoyed this book and I loved the beautiful illustrations most of all.  The children will love this book and it will help with counting.  Check it out at the library or your nearest bookstore.

 

   Also, there are some fun activity pages at the end for children to do with parents.  You should also check out this web site for more activities and learning opportunities.  www.sylvandellpublishing.com.  The site has many teaching activities and quizzes.  Happy Reading!!!!!

 

 

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Happy Wednesday my friends.

 

I hope it is a glorious fall day wherever you are in the world.  It is beautiful here and I am so glad I was able to be out and enjoy some it.  Today I am going to write about a favorite fall book that I read to my students when I was teaching every fall.  They loved it too.  I hope you and your children will enjoy it too.  It is a great book to purchase and read every fall.  It has beautiful illustrations and many of them are embossed.  SO the children can feel them . It is an amazing book.  It is called The Lonely Scarecrow.

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The Lonely Scarecrow

by

Tim Preston

 

    I have already said it is an amazing book and that younger kids will love it.  I love it and I just read it again before I started writing my post. It also has some great vocabulary words that you might want to discuss with your child before you read the book.  Some words that you might want to discuss are jagged,marooned,churning,ravaged, vanished, and thaw.

 

    The Lonely Scarecrow sits in a field all alone and he is very lonely.  He wants to be friends with all the animals he sees scurrying around the field.  The animals though are afraid of his flapping coat and jagged metal mouth.  As the swaying wheat grew in the field the scarecrow stood all alone and he was very lonely.  Then the combine monster comes to harvest the wheat and the lonely scarecrow is just left standing in the barren field.  Then the winds started to blow and the scarecrow got even lonelier, for he knew winter was coming. Snow fell heavily one night and transformed the lonely scarecrow into a friendly snowman.  All the animals came to see the friendly snowman and play on and around him.  The the snow started to melt and the scarecrow wondered if his new friends would stay around after he was the scary scarecrow again and not the friendly snowman.  Please check out this book at the library or your favorite bookstore. You will enjoy it!!!!!

 

 

The kids would love making cut or ugly scarecrows after they read the book.  

 

 

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The Mystery of the Runaway Scarecrow

by

Elspeth Campbell Murphy

 

  This book is for 9, 10, 11 year olds.  It is a mystery about the disappearance of Buster the Scarecrow.  Buster is a popular feature of the Fall Festival in Fairfield.  It is also about Sarah-Jane, Timothy, and Titus from the Three Cousins Detective Club.  It seems Buster is gone and left a note saying that he's tired of standing around and would like to travel!  Everyone is a buzz in Fairfield as to who wrote the note.  The TCDC is on the case .  So read the book to find out who took Buster and why.

 

  This is a Christian book and the author has written several of the books all detective stories.  So check out Elspeth Campbell Murphy if you like good Christian detective stories.

 

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See you Friday with more great books,  Happy reading and please share a comment about the blog and what you would like to see here.  Thank you.



 



 



 



 



 



 

The Four Seasons

Fall

by Maria Rius

 

 

    This is a really cute book for young children.  The boy and girl go on many adventures having to do with fall.  They go back to school, they ride their bikes through the park and the leaves are falling all around.  Then they go to the store and see all the different kinds of apples.  Their grandfather is growing pumpkins so they go to the garden to look at them.  They pick grapes and berries from the bushes. Their mother makes jam with the berries and the boy and girl help. It is a quick look at fall activities

that young children would enjoy.  The book has great illustrations too and some questions parents could ask children for more comprehensions which is a very good reading skill.  It also has a couple of activities at the end that you could do with your child.

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I added all of the season books I could find by Maria Rius.  So other books out there by Maria sharing about the seasons of the year.  This is a good skill for children to learn about the four seasons and to know how they are different.

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The Fall Gathering

by

Rita Kohn

 

   This book is for preschool and primary grades based on learning the concept of Quantity, such as how much and how many.  The story takes place of course in the fall in a woodland region of the Great Lakes of North America.  This was the homeland of more than twenty Native American nations.  The book's focus is the annual gathering to share and give thanks for the harvest.  The

 children can count along and see each page which shares the number of things brought to the festival.  This is a great book for children to strengthen their counting skills and help them to learn to share and cooperate with others.  At the end of the book the author shares  about the woodland tribes of the Great Lakes.  She also shares some woodland recipes.   One of my favorites is the Woodland Fry Bread.  A good activity after reading and talking about the book would be to try the 5 Woodland Recipes at the end of the book with your family that night for dinner.  It would be a great learning experience. Great book!!!!  Happy Reading!!!!!

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I had help writing the blog today.  Our sweet cat was helping me out on the desk.  He says Hiiiiii.

Lovely fall picture.  Hope you are enjoying the first full day of fall.  Happy Reading my friends.

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Fall Leaves

by

Mary Packard

 

 

   This book is a Kindergarten-First grade book.  It has wonderful illustrations and just a few words on each page about fall leaves.  It would be a great book to teach young children about leaves and a great first reading book.  It also has activity pages at the end of the book that you could do with your child after you read the book.  It is a book young children would enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

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Fall

by

David Webster

 

I thought I would share another activity out of this  book that I shared about on Wednesday.  This activity I thought both boys and girls would enjoy.  It is making a leaf monster. :)

 

 

First, collect colorful leaves of different shapes and then paste them to a piece of paper in the shape of a monster. Find a nice large leaf for the head and one for the body.  Use some seeds or tiny leaves for a face.  Glue them on.  The kids will come up with all kinds of monsters.  When the monster is finished put it between newspaper and under some heavy books for a week or two and then hang it up.  A really cute fall decoration.

 

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The Colors of Fall

by

Jerry and Marcy Monkman

 

   This is a great fall road trip book if you live in the New England area or the Appalachians.  Also, if you are planning a fall trip to see the beautiful fall trees. The authors even give GPS coordinates for areas  in the book.  They give interesting places to visit for each road trip and how long to get there .  It would be a great book to have if you were planning a trip to New England or the Appalachians.  They also tell you the peak seasons to see the best fall foliage.  The book is full of beautiful pictures of fall foliage, lakes, and waterfalls.  I have decided a trip to New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine should be on my list of places to go and the fall of the year would be the perfect time to go.  Check out this book and see where you would like to go and enjoy the beautiful pictures.  Personally, I can't wait for the leaves to change here in Missouri too. 

 

 



 

 

 

Have a great weekend and I will see you again on Monday.  Happy Reading and Happy Fall.

 

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Mouses's First Fall

by

Lauren Thompson

 

     Hooray for fall.  That is what Mouse and Minka say as they venture out to play on a fall day.  They love the colors of the leaves, red, yellow, orange and brown.  They get excited about all the shapes and colors of the leaves.  They run and skip through the leaves and even pile them up and jump in them.  Even Minka hides in the leaves and Mouse has to find her.  It is a really cute and colorful fall book for young children to help them enjoy the leaves of fall.  Check one out at your local library or bookstore.  Happy Reading!!!!!

 



 

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Fall

Activities, Projects, and Science Facts

by

David Webster

 

      This is a really nice book for fall projects that children can do.  It has activities, projects, and science facts about leaves, apples, pumpkins, seeds, soil, sky, bones, and a section on animals preparing for winter.  There are great projects to do with children for the fall of the year.  I am going to share one today and one on Friday.  I hope you enjoy and children would enjoy the projects in this book. 

 

 

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Leaf Book

from the Fall Book

by

David Webster

 

First of all collect twelve leaves from different trees around your neighborhood or park. All kinds of colors will look good in your book.

Neatly mount the leaves on sheets of paper with transparent tape.  Try to put three or four leaves on each page.

Try to label each leaf with its correct name.  You might also need a leaf book from the library for all the names.

When you have them all labeled make a cover for your book.

 

Get some construction paper in pretty fall colors and draw some leaves on the front cover.

Then staple all the pages together with the leaf pages and voila you will have a nice leaf book.

When your book is done, place it under some heavy books for several weeks to keep the leaves from curling up.

 

Hope you enjoy making your own Leaf book.  I know I did when I was a child and so did my children.  Have fun!!!

Good afternoon friends! 

 

 

     I am going to be sharing some good fall books for children the next couple of weeks.  I love fall or autumn and love seeing the leaves and the weather change.  It is a beautiful time of the year.  I always loved raking the leaves and jumping in them in the fall.  I love going to get apples from the apple orchard and my mom would make great applesauce and apple butter.  I loved making leaf books and searching down the different kind of leaves for it.  My daughters loved doing it too.  So many fun and exciting things to do in the fall.  What is your favorite?  Please share in the comments your favorite fall things to do.  We would love to hear from you.  So post a comment friends anytime you would like to.

 

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The Fall Festival

 

by

 

Mercer Mayer

 

     Who doesn't like a Mercer Mayer book?  They are always so delightful and lessons to be learned.  This one is about a fall festival in the Critter's hometown .  The family is headed to the fall festival.  They can't wait to see all of the fun things to do at the festival.  The Critter family brings a wagon to hold all that they buy.  The first thing they buy are apples and  Little Critter can't resist so he eats one of the apples.  Little Sister has some apple cider.  The family goes on a hayride through the pumpkin patch and then the family looks for a pumpkin for Halloween and Little Critter finds one and so does mom critter.  Little Critter's is to big so they take the one mom found.  They also pick apples from the trees to take home so mom can make apple pies.  Little Critter eats another apple.  The family plays the horseshoe game and dad critter wins a bunny for Little Sister and a bear for Little Critter.  Then it is time to go home and Little Critter decides he has eaten to many apples !!!

   This is a really cute book and one both boys and girls t would enjoy. It is a I Can Read Book.  It is a shared reading book.  Also check out the website www.icanread.com for more information about I Can Read books.  They are great books to help children learn to read.                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

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Ruby's Falling Leaves

by

Rosemary Wells

 

This is a really cute book with Max and Ruby.  It is fall and as Ruby says that is why it is fall because of the falling leaves.  Ruby is making a Leaf Book for school.  Her and Max are in the backyard looking for the leaves for her book.  She is  looking for leaves from a willow tree and an apple tree and Max is trying to help.  Together they find the willow and apple leaves and now Ruby is looking for a Japanese maple leaf and a big tooth aspen.  They have a time with all the leaves and the leaves in Max's dump truck getting mixed up but they do find both and Ruby puts them in her book.  Ruby finds all the leaves for her leaf book in the end of the story. 

This is a great fall book for young children and after you read the book with your child you could take them to make a leaf book.  On Wednesday's blog I will share some information on making a Leaf book.  I think all ages of children and some adults would love to make one.  See you Wednesday friends!

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 



 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Southern Living

The Official SEC Tailgating Cookbook

 

 

 

     Are you a college football fan?  My team is the Missouri Tigers.  THis is a really cool book with recipes and information about every school in Sec conference.  I enjoyed reading the information and traditions of each school and then the recipes for the tailgating fun listed.  Some of my favorites were the FIzzy Strawberry Lemonade from AUburn University.  The Rocky Top Popcorn from the University of Florida and of course from the University of Missouri  Cowboy Nachos and Tiger Striped Brownie Sundaes.   This book is really amazing and even if you aren't a tailgater there are some really great recipes from drinks to desserts.  It is all covered in this book with great pictures of the food and the schools.  Are you tailgating for a college game tomorrow?  This is the book to get.

 

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FANFARE

A Playbook of Great Recipes for

Tailgating

or

Watching the Game at Home

by

 

Debbie Moose

 

     I love the way the author lists the chapters in this book.  Strategy Session-Proper Prior Planning, Kickoff-Snacks, Appetizers and Drinks, Bowl Games-

Soups, beans, and chili, Hot Streak-Main Courses, Pit Stops-Salads, Sides, Breakfast, and Brunch, and Overtime-Desserts.  Such a cute way to do it.  She lists some great recipes including roasting a turkey, and Better Than the Bucket Fried Chicken.  She also gives information and facts about some college teams and it isn't all about football games.  She shares information about the dog sled race in Anchorage, Alaska and NASCAR Racing  and how both has tailgating parties.  Great recipes and great information in one great book.  Check it out when you get a chance especially if you love tailgating.

 

 

 

 



 

 

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 I hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoys some good weather wherever you might be.  Also, if you are tailgating for a high school game, a college game tomorrow, or an NFL Game on Sunday please check these two books out for great recipes.
See you Monday for some fall books coming
Happy Reading!!!!

 

 

 



 



 

 

 

Scooby-Doo Readers

 

Football Fright

by

Gail Herman

 

  Scooby and the gang are going to the Coolsville High School football game.  They get to the game and of course Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are hungry.  So they hurry to the snack stand whiloe the rest of the gang hurry to get seats for the game.  While in the line Scooby and Shaggy see some funny looking people going around saying GRRRRR.  Shaggy and Scooby get their food and are headed for the stands when they see the orange creatures again and decided they are "Raliens". As Scooby and Shaggy are running for the stands and they look and see what they think is an orange spaceship.  Everywhere they run they see the orange creatures who look like tigers and all the Raliens say is "Grrrrrr."  Things heat up on the football field when Scooby and Shaggy get there.  Somehow Shaggy ends up running a touchdown with Scooby's help.  At the end of the book the gang gets together and Shaggy tells them about the Raliens.  Read the book to find out who the "raliens" are.  It is a cute book and second and third graders should be able to read it on their own.

 

 

 

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Pixie Hollow Games

Team Spirit

by

Kitty Richards

 

 

    This is really a cute book.  It is about the Pixie Hollow Games and all the fairies are getting ready for the games.  A new garden fairy, named Chloe arrives for the games.  The garden fairies have never won the Pixie Hollow Games but Chloe thinks she can change that but Rosetta doesn't think so.  As fate would have it Rosetta and Chloe  become a team for the garden fairies.  Two storm fairies, Rumble and Glimmer were the five time winner of the games.  The girls start out with the Leapfrogging Race and end up last but they still continue with all the races .  They didn't win any of the races but they kept trying and stayed in the games.  Read the book to see who wins the Pixie Hollow Games.

 

  This was a good book for teaching kids about what teamwork can do and be determined.  I really did enjoy this cute book about fairies which girls would probably like best but still a good teamwork book.

 

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Elympics

by

X.J. Kennedy

 

    This book is a collection of Olympic-loving, children-loving poems.  The pachyderms are participating  in their own Olympics.  The have a rollicking good time doing it.  The poems are  rhyming and fun all about the pachyderms competing.  The children will love hearing the poems and looking at the great illustrations in the book.  Check it out for some super poetry.

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed the sports books for both boys and girls.  On Friday I will post the two tailgate books for the tailgating season and post a snack from one of them.  Hope you and the children will enjoy the books.  Next week I hope to post some really good fall books.  See you Friday.



 



 

 



 

 





 



 

 

 

Welcome Readers

 

 

Today I am going to post about two books about football that young boys or girls would enjoy.  Both are nonfiction books and have lots of pictures.  I hope your young person will enjoy them.  Also, a friend's blog has a good idea for a tailgate party dessert so I am going to give you a link to Sassi's blog so  you can make some before your next tailgate party.

 

(Did your team win this past weekend?)  Two of my favorites did and we had a small tailgate party for the Chiefs game and I tried some of Sassi's churros.  They were great!)

 

 

 

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My First Sports

 

Football

 

by

Ray McClellan

 

     This book is a good beginning book for learning all about football.  I even learned a few things about the game that I didn't know .  I didn't know it had been around for over 150 years and that it started out as a running game.  The author gives many interesting facts and also shares the basic rules of the game in a way that young people would understand.  He also talks about the equipment you  need to play football.  ( A fun fact I didn't know was that the first footballs were made of pig bladders.)  Thank goodness today they are made from cow leather.  It has many interesting facts and a third or fourth grader could read it on their own. Also, check out the site www.factsurfer.com for more fun facts about

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The New True Book

 

FOOTBALL

 

by

 

Ray Broekel

 

 

     This book is a lot like the one I just reviewed except it has more information and is a longer book.  The author give a history of football, talks about the playing field,equipment,the offensive team,and the defensive team.   He also covers the special team, scoring, the officials, the National Football League,  and a list of famous professional players.  The book is very easy to read and has many pictures.  It would be a great book for someone wanting to know more about the game of football.  Check it out and share with your young person or someone who wants to learn the game of football.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Also check out Sassi's blog for her great recipe for Churros.  Here is her blog address. http://delightfullysassi.blogspot.com/  I know you will enjoy them.  Happy eating!

 



 

 

 

 



                      



 

 

Happy Friday Everyone!

 

Today I am going to post about the three crafts I made from the book The Most Excellent Book of How to be a Cheerleader

by

Bob Kiralfy

 

I wrote about the book on Wednesday's post so I thought for Friday I would make a few of the crafts and show them to you.  I know that the Chiefs are playing this Sunday and I have been a fan of them since I was 16.  So I made my crafts in their colors.  You could with your child or grandchild make them in any colors you would want for your favorite team.  The directions for making the Pom-Pom, the Megaphone, and the Flash Cards are in the book.  They are very simple to make and young girls or boys could make them with adult supervision.  They were really fun to make and turned out cute.  So I know your child or grandchild would love to make them for a Friday night high school game, a Saturday college game, or a NFL game on a Sunday.  They would have so much fun cheering on their team.  So check out the pictures or the book and have your child make some for the weekend.  They would also be great decorations for a tailgate party.  So enjoy and have fun making your fun cheerleading items.

 

Items you will need:

construction paper

poster board or cardstock paper

markers

tape

glue

scissors

stickers (if you want)

glitter (if you want)

You can make the megaphones bigger if you want if you use poster board.  I wanted mine smaller for a Tailgate Party I am having on Sunday for the opening KC Chiefs Game

 

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Hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoy your football.  I am going to share some more football books on Monday and some tailgating recipes during the week.  Hope to hear your comments if your reading the blog.  :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GO, Fight, Win !!!!

 

 

Yea Chiefs!!!!

 

Were you a cheerleader in high school, college, or even an NFL Cheerleader?

Many of you probably were and now you have daughters or granddaughters who want to be one too.  Today's post is about two cute books I found about cheerleaders.  Football season is starting and they even have cheerleaders for Little League Football.  So here are two great books to share with you want-to-be cheerleader.

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The Accidental Cheerleader

by

Mimi McCoy

 

  This book is about two friends Sophie and Kylie.  Kylie has a wild side while Sophie is thoughtful and shy.  They are twelve years old and great friends.  Kylie signs them both up for cheerleader tryouts.   When the girls go to the tryouts Kylie freezes up and their routine didn't turn out well.  When they check to see who made the squad on Monday it is Sophie who is on the squad and Kylie is the mascot a Mule.

Soon Sophie feels torn between her best friend and the cheerleaders.  Can Sophie and Kylie remember what it was like to be best friends before they lose each other forever?  Read the book to find out.  This book would be good for girls from 4th to 6 th grade.  It is a really cute book and lessons to be learned too.

 

 

The most excellent book of how to be a cheerleader

 

by

 

Bob Kiralfy

 

Did you know that cheerleading is over 100 years old? Did you know that the first cheerleader was a boy?  Did you know he cheered the crowd on at the University of Minnesota  football game in 1898? Did you know women first became cheerleaders in 1920?   This is a great book for young cheerleaders and gives some great advice. Cheerleaders can start from 5 years old (called Peewees) and go all the way up to college age.  In the book the author tells about the uniform, the pom-poms, the megaphone, and more.  He  even tells about how to make some of items cheerleaders need.  Cheerleading is great physical exercise too and he tells how to warm -up before you start cheering.  I will share on Friday a couple of the things you can make with your little cheerleader that doesn't require much to make them.  Check out this book if you have a girl little or bigger who wants to be a cheerleader this year.  It is a great book for them to know what they will do as a cheerleader.