And finally for the older kids:
I recycled Block City because it's important for kids to have exposure to classics and to poetry, so even though it's a bit juvenile for this group, I'm doing it anyway. Everybody should have the cultural notion of playing with blocks and creating something wonderful in your mind.
Finishing us out for the day (I'm doing three today, despite the heat, because they were sad that I only did two last week) are:
Building Our House
Jonathan Bean
ISBN: 9780374380236
Dense, but really interesting. Gail Gibbon's How a House is Built for the older set, with the bonus that it's actually a true story! The photographs at the end of the story (of the real house during construction) were confusing to the kids - they thought they were looking at the ruins of the old house! Otherwise, they enjoyed the idea of building their own home, and the idea of having "parties" to work just blew their minds.
Dinosaur Dig!
Penny Dale
ISBN: 9780763658717
Brightly colored dinosaurs work with realistic earthmovers in a vibrant, gritty environment to create something cool for themselves. The kids liked the idea of a pool, but they thought that the author should have called it a water park because it had slides and fountains in it.
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