Books we Read :: Vegetable And Fruity Stories | A Trick For A Trick

Most of the books we reviewed in Princess Liya are either by international authors or popular by its title. However, last time when we visited a book fair at Liya's school, I stumbled upon some Vegetable and Fruity stories. I never came across these books before.

Often, I look for moral stories to read with Liya because I find her taking the lessons seriously and putting them into practice. Moral stories do inspire them a lot more than we imagine. Looks like the book hasn't gone very popular in India, I don't know why. We liked it and already read it umpteen times. :)

Books We Read : Tick Tock Clock (Telling the Time - part 2)

You probably know that we are learning to tell the time and might have seen the activity we did here. We are reading books and doing some worksheet exercises to reinforce our learning.

The book we chose to discuss is Tick Tock Clock (My First I Can Read).

Why this book?  It is an "I can read- level -1" book. Easy for Liya to read with mum.
[With level 1 books we have reached on an agreement - she will start with title, mum will read couple of lines, then girl will read couple of lines and it continues.]

Oh, yes! Too much of negotiations happening in our household these days!

Art exhibition!

 Liya's school held an art exhibition to display all the art work done by little ones through the academic year. Sharing some moments from the show.

Loved them all especially the glass painting....

Book of the Week ~ Maisy Dresses Up

Welcome back to another Book of the Week issue. It's been long time since a book review and so here we go. Like I said here, we were working on FABRICs theme as a part of our homeschooling adventures and hence we were reading many books related to fabrics and clothing.

Today we're gonna share with you a wonderful book from the very popular Maisy series – Maisy Dresses Up by Lucy Cousins.

Book of the Week :: Little Apple Goat

Note: Another super delayed post, originally scheduled for April 25.
Theme: Jungle
Why this theme?: You all know 22 April was earth day. This earth and everything in it is a blessing for us and the greenery we see around is the donor of our bread and breath. We have to be grateful and hence we must preserve its originality and should not tamper it.  The awareness must start from within our homes and we owe to pass over the message to our little buds, as well. So, we chose to learn about the greenery from Little Apple Goat. This book is not about jungles but about orchards.

What's it all about...? 

Book of the Week :: And the Caboose Said...

We had a wonderful interactive story time with ...And the Caboose Said...

We encourage all little readers to have a peek at the story. We're sure that you're gonna learn more about Caboose and different entities involved in a day of Caboose...

Happy Learning...!

With Love,
Liya!

Yay!

Our new Dr Seuss packet has arrived...:)

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Book of the Week :: Dora's Search for Seasons

Theme: Seasons

Our Pick: Dora the Explorer: Dora's Search for the Seasons (Nick Jr. Book Club)

Dora and Boots heard a baby flamingo crying. They stopped by baby flamingo and learned that baby flamingo flew too away from home and doesn't know to go back to. They help Baby Flamingo to reunite with F's family living in Summer lake. They had to take an adventurous trip through Fall Forest, Winter Mountain, spring Meadow and then to Summer Lake...

Book of the Week ~ Baby Minnie's Treat

Theme: Treats/ Celebrations
Our Pick : Disney Babies: Baby Minnie's Treat, a Book About Signs

Book of the Week ~ Seymour and Henry

Theme: Mothers/Sister
Our Pick: Seymour and Henry

Syemour and Henry are siblings... they just love playing all the day long like my little Liya. 

Evening, momma is calling them back home but they just don't want to go back to home..

They run away from Momma... they go far far away from Momma...

They play far away in the garden... after a while it rains and they come back to find their sweet Momma waiting for them right there... How sweet are Mommas.. aren't they?

Momma takes them home... and put them into sleep!

Book of the Week :: If you give a cat a cup cake....

Theme: Pets
Our Pick: If you give a CAT a cup cake

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Book of the Week :: It's Library Day

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 Theme of the week ~ Books
Our pick ~ It's Library Day
Author ~ Janet Morgan Stoeke
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Jennifer loves to read stories, Flores loves to read scary stories, Uma has just started reading. All of them smile when they hear 'something'. All of them likes 'something' which little Liya is equally passionate about. That's GOING TO LIBRARY.
This book is about kids' day in library. Liya loved it as as much as she loves to visit library. She learned what can she do in the library, why does Ms Faye find books easily, how should behave in the library etc.

Book of the Week :: Dance with Me

Hello, Welcome to another BoW with us. Hope you all are having wonderful holidays. Let's join hands and dance for some time. It's a good time to have fun right? That's why we chose Dance with Me by Charles R Smith and Noah N Jones, for this week.

"Dance with me, Twist with me

Wiggle, move and bounce with me!

Move your body to the beat..."

Book of the Week ~ Frosty the Snowman

Welcome to another 'Book of the Week'. Once again Liya and myself wholeheartedly apologize for not sharing 'story time' with you, for a few weeks. Our theme for the week is SNOW.
Well, snow seems to be fairly late to hit Buffalo this year, we hardly saw one or two of them. Just a plain winter compared to last year. But yes, we are loving it.

Thumpety thumpety thump thump,  Thumpety thumpety thump thump,  

Look at Frosty go!

Book of the Week ::The Wheels on the Bus...

Welcome to another story time with little Liya. Today, we are sharing with you the ever green classic The Wheels on the Bus: Go Round and Round (Classic Books With Holes) by Annie Kubler.

This falls in the series 'books with holes',  same as 'Ten little Monkeys...'

Book of the Week :: What's the Matter Bunny Blue?

Our apologies for not sharing a story last week. This week we are going to share with you another wonderful story- What's the Matter, Bunny Blue? by Nicola Smee.

What's the matter Bunny Blue....?

"I've lost my Granny! BOO HOO HOO!"

Book of the Week ~ Ten Little Monkeys: Jumping on the Bed

Ten Little Monkeys: Jumping on the Bed (Classic Books With Holes) by Annie Kubler

I am sure this book doesn't need any introduction- it is one of those classics which kids of all age immediately fall in love with.

Book of the Week :: Guess how much I love you!

Theme: Love
Our Pick: Guess How Much I Love You
Author: Sam McBratney


"Guess how much I love you," says Little Nutbrown Hare. Little Nutbrown Hare shows his daddy how much he loves him: as wide as he can reach and as far as he can hop. But Big Nutbrown Hare, who can reach farther and hop higher, loves him back just as much. Well then lil Nutbrown Hare loves him right up to the moon, but that's just halfway to Big Nutbrown Hare's love for him.

 

 A sneak peak at Liya's  day with the book.

Book of the Week :: Clip- Clop

Book of the Week Theme: Let's play

We Chose: Clip-Clop 

Written by: Nicola Smee

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What's it all about?
Mr. Horse is very generous and blows a question 'Who wants a ride'? The barnyard friends-  a cat, a dog, a pig and a duck, were exhilarated by the stunning offer- and climbing aboard, one after another for a cruise ride on horse.

Clip- Clop, Clippity- Clop...

...and then?

Every one enjoys the feeling of getting twirled of tossed...Don't you?  The naughty friends feel that Mr.horse is not running really fast and they request to go a little faster! 

Book of the Week :: Dimity Duck

As I told earlier, we are sticking to a THEME and reading along with Rainbow. The theme for the week is FRIENDS, hence we chose Dimity Duck by Jane Yolen.

It is all about... a duck Dimity and a day in her life. There begins a day as

Dimity Duck Waddles,

she toddles out of bed...