Poppins Book Nook: Ponds, Lakes and Rivers

     Welcome back to February's edition of The Poppins Book Nook.  For this month, our theme was Ponds, Lakes, and Rivers.

We chose the book Water Dance 

by Thomas Locker.

This book is a cute poem talking about how water moves.  Water makes up 3/4 of the planet and has been the same for thousands of years.  This book explains the water cycle in a poetic form.

This past Saturday we went on a winter hike at a local State Park.  We talked about the flow of the water from the river that we walked beside.  The river flowed from the lake.  Here are some pictures of our hike.

Getting excited for our 6 mile hike!!

Swing bridge!!

Now it is time to check out the other blogs in the Poppins Book Nook!

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Poppins Book Nook: Feasts around the world

Welcome back to another month of Poppins Book Nook.  Our theme this month is feasts around the world.  We chose the book:

Pizza for the Queen

by Nancy Castaldo

This is a cute little story about a pizza maker named Raffaele who is making a pizza for Queen Margherita.  As he is trying to get all the best ingredients for the Queen, a cat eats all the anchovies!  (I personally would be okay with that!!)

The pizza comes off with out a hitch and the Queen loves it!

For our activity we were going to make a homemade pizza.  Well, I have battled migraines for over a week and didn't get to it, but we did enjoy a pizza from somewhere else!

Click below to see how other members of Poppins Book Nook were inspired!

Enchanted Homeschooling Mom - 3 Dinosaurs - ABC Creative Learning - As We Walk Along the Road - Brain Power Boy - Chestnut Grove Academy - Embracing Destiny - Every Bed of Roses - Farm Fresh Adventures - Growing in God's Grace - Kathys Cluttered Mind - My Bright Firefly - Peakle Pie - Preschool Powol Packets - Pray Species - SAHM I am - Stir The Wonder - Sunny Day Family - Sweet Silly Sara - Teach Beside Me - To the Moon and Back - Tots and Me - Tree Valley Academy - Witty Hoots

 Clip art by MelonHeadz.

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Art History Month #1---Pablo Picasso Poppins Book Nook

Welcome back to this month's edition of Poppins Book Nook!  Artists!!

I am using this as my kick off to Art History.  Stick around and I will be doing an artist every 4 weeks.  I will include books that we use and art projects.  This month we did Pablo Picasso.



Week 1

First we read this book:

Just behave Pablo Picasso

by Jonah Winter

The art project this week was  based off of Pablo Picasso's clown painting.   

I had him paint the background and then he used various paper to make the clown.\

Week 2

This week we read the book:.

Pablo Picasso

by Adam Klein

His art project for this week was based off of Picasso's guitar.

This one was found here.

Week 3

This week we read this book:

Pablo Picasso

by Mike Venzia

Then He did this project:

You can find it here.

Week 4

For our last week we read this book:

Pablo Picasso

by Catherine Nichols

Picasso was known for his Cubism movement.

So I had him draw a picture of  a person using those concepts.

Stay tuned for next month when we study Van Gogh!

Click below to see how other members of Poppins Book Nook were inspired!

Enchanted Homeschooling Mom - 3 Dinosaurs - ABC Creative Learning - As We Walk Along the Road - Brain Power Boy - Chestnut Grove Academy - Embracing Destiny - Every Bed of Roses - Farm Fresh Adventures - Growing in God's Grace - Kathys Cluttered Mind - My Bright Firefly - Peakle Pie - Preschool Powol Packets - Pray Species - SAHM I am - Stir The Wonder - Sunny Day Family - Sweet Silly Sara - Teach Beside Me - To the Moon and Back - Tots and Me - Tree Valley Academy - Witty Hoots

 Clip art by MelonHeadz.

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Poppins Book Nook: Newberry Medal Winners

This month's theme for Poppins Book Nook was on Newberry Medal Winners.  I had a lot of trouble finding one that was age appropriate for Conner, but this one worked!  This is a cute little story about a boy becoming old enough to go over a mountain by himself to do an errand for his mom.

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

by Alice Dalgliesh

Check it out if you are interested!!

Click below to see how other members of Poppins Book Nook were inspired!

Enchanted Homeschooling Mom - 3 Dinosaurs - ABC Creative Learning - As We Walk Along the Road - Brain Power Boy - Chestnut Grove Academy - Embracing Destiny - Every Bed of Roses - Farm Fresh Adventures - Growing in God's Grace - Kathys Cluttered Mind - My Bright Firefly - Peakle Pie - Preschool Powol Packets - Pray Species - SAHM I am - Stir The Wonder - Sunny Day Family - Sweet Silly Sara - Teach Beside Me - To the Moon and Back - Tots and Me - Tree Valley Academy - Witty Hoots

 Clip art by MelonHeadz.


Stay tuned next month for artists!

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Poppins Book Nook: Composers

Welcome back to another month of Poppins Book Nook.  This month was on composers.  I chose a book on Beethoven.  Conner has been taking piano lessons for over a year and he just finished a song that Beethoven wrote, so I thought we would read about him.

The book we chose was:

This is a really cute story about the composer.  Hard to believe he had 5 legless pianos and lived in 39 different apartments!!

Some of the music he has been working on!

The 39 Apartments of Ludwig van Beethoven

by Jonah Winter and Barry Blitt

Giveaway:

Note the Score with your Favorite Composer Giveaway! Composer are important to music because they write the music the musician play in their orchestras, bands, and groups. This month the Poppins Book Nook is bringing Composer themed storybooks to life with fun activities and more! Every month this group will be offering readers a chance to win a brand new storybook or product that ties in with our theme for the month. This month one lucky entrant will win the Note the Score with your Favorite Composer Giveaway. The winner will receive one copy of The Story of the Orchestra by Robert Levine. So let’s all get our instruments ready and bring composer themed storybooks to life in this month with the Poppins Book Nook!

Entrants must be 18 years or older and reside in a country that receives U.S. Postal mail. This giveaway is brought to you by the company Enchanted Homeschooling Mom who is owner and founder of the Poppins Book Nook. By entering this giveaway you are also acknowledging that you have read and agree to all of the PromoSimple terms & conditions as well as Enchanted Homeschooling Mom's disclosures found here {http://enchantedhomeschoolingmom.org/disclosures/}. Just enter the PromoSimple below to win:

Be sure to check out the other participants in the Poppins Book Nook Virtual Book Club below and visit Poppins Book Nook to get the wonderful book club printables available for you to use with your kids.
Enchanted Homeschooling Mom – 3 Dinosaurs – ABC Creative Learning – As We Walk Along the Road – Brain Power Boy – Chestnut Grove Academy – Embracing Destiny –Every Bed of Roses – Farm Fresh Adventures – Growing in God’s Grace – Kathys Cluttered Mind – My Bright Firefly – Peakle Pie – Preschool Powol Packets – Pray Species – SAHM I am – Stir The Wonder – Sunny Day Family – Sweet Silly Sara –Teach Beside Me – To the Moon and Back – Tots and Me – Tree Valley Academy –Witty Hoots

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Poppins Book Nook: Farms and giveaway!!

Welcome back to another month of Poppins Book Nook!!  

This month was farms.  Considering we live on a farm and have done all things farm related with the boys, I took a different route with our book selection.  I ended up picking out 2 different books.

The first book was Pirates on the Farm

by Denette Fretz

This was such a touching story about a family with pirates as neighbors.  This book is full of pirates shearing sheep and harvesting corn with swords, animals walking the plank, and fish stew for their neighbors!!  Due to the damages caused by the pirates, they were asked to leave if they couldn't pay the charges.  The pirates neighbors came to the rescue and used their stash to pay the pirates debt.

We talked about being neighborly.  We talked about everyone is our neighbor.  I read him the Parable of the Sower.  

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”                ~Luke 10:25-27

Some pictures of my little man made up as a pirate.  This was from a dinner theater we did in Myrtle Beach this past February.

The next story we read was The Farmer

by Mark Ludy

This is such a touching story about a farmer we had to give up 2 of his best friends after horrible things happened in his life.  He never forgot to pray though.  God provided for his every needs.  In the end, the farmer runs to help his neighbors with a field fire.  He shows much humility when he shares his food with them so that they wouldn't starve through the winter.  By doing this, he got his cow and pig back.  We love this book!!

Make sure to check out these other fine blogs and see what they have been up to this month!

Enchanted Homeschooling Mom - 3 Dinosaurs - ABC Creative Learning - As We Walk Along the Road - Brain Power Boy - Chestnut Grove Academy - Embracing Destiny - Every Bed of Roses -Farm Fresh Adventures - Growing in God's Grace - Kathys Cluttered Mind - My Bright Firefly -Peakle Pie - Preschool Powol Packets - Pray Species - SAHM I am - Stir The Wonder - Sunny Day Family - Sweet Silly Sara - Teach Beside Me - To the Moon and Back - Tots and Me - Tree Valley Academy - Witty Hoots

here is the plan for this years themes:



On to the giveaway!!!

Down on the Farm Bundle Giveaway! Swing your partner round and round and come on down to the farm this month with the Poppins Book Nook! Every month this group will be offering readers a chance to win a brand new storybook or product that ties in with our theme for the month. This month one lucky entrant will win the Down on the Farm Bundle. The winner will enjoy two fun farm themed learning items. The two items that they will win is the Farming storybook by author Gail Gibbons and Safari Ltd Farm Babies TOOB. Let the farm themed learning fun begin!

Entrants must be 18 years or older and reside in a country that receives U.S. Postal mail. This giveaway is brought to you by the company Enchanted Homeschooling Mom who is owner and founder of the Poppins Book Nook. By entering this giveaway you are also acknowledging that you have read and agree to all of the PromoSimple terms & conditions as well as Enchanted Homeschooling Mom's disclosures found here {http://enchantedhomeschoolingmom.org/disclosures/}. Just enter the PromoSimple below to win

Be sure to check out what everyone else is up to this month!!

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Blessings!!

Poppins Book Nook: Weather and giveaway!!

Welcome back to another month of Poppins Book Nook!!  

This month was weather.  We chose the book Maisy's Wonderful Weather Book by Lucy Cousins.

For our activity, I had him do a quilt weather art project.  I pulled out our Draw! Write! Now!  book and picked out a picture.  I had him draw it once.  Then I made copies of it on the copier.

I then had him color each one with 4 different weather scenes.  He did snowy, stormy, sunny, and rainbow.

Then we arranged them on a bigger piece of paper and cut strips of construction paper to serve as out border for the quilt.

Make sure to check out these other fine blogs and see what they have been up to this month!

Enchanted Homeschooling Mom - 3 Dinosaurs - ABC Creative Learning - As We Walk Along the Road - Brain Power Boy - Chestnut Grove Academy - Embracing Destiny - Every Bed of Roses - Farm Fresh Adventures - Growing in God's Grace - Kathys Cluttered Mind - My Bright Firefly - Peakle Pie - Preschool Powol Packets - Pray Species - SAHM I am - Stir The Wonder - Sunny Day Family - Sweet Silly Sara - Teach Beside Me - To the Moon and Back - Tots and Me - Tree Valley Academy - Witty Hoots

here is the plan for this years themes:



On to the giveaway.

Kid’s Meteorologist in the Making Bundle Giveaway! Every month the Poppins Book Nook group will be offering readers a chance to win a brand new storybook or product that ties in with our theme for the month. This month one lucky entrant will win the Kid’s Meteorologist In The Making Bundle. The winner will enjoy two fun weather themed learning items. The two items that they will win is the Weather Tracker and National Geographic’s Kid’s Everything Weather (*kindly note that these are affiliate links and your purchase helps to run this book club). These two wondrous weather items can bring your children a fun weather activity or two.

Entrants must be 18 years or older and reside in a country that receives U.S. Postal mail. This giveaway is brought to you by the company Enchanted Homeschooling Mom who is owner and founder of the Poppins Book Nook. By entering this giveaway you are also acknowledging that you have read and agree to all of the PromoSimple terms & conditions as well as Enchanted Homeschooling Mom's disclosures found here {http://enchantedhomeschoolingmom.org/disclosures/}. Just enter the PromoSimple below to win

On to the link up:

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Blessings!!