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Book Sharing Monday :: Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Welcome back to Book Sharing Monday!

This week, we are doing a little Dr. Seuss author study so I chose one of his titles to share. "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" is a wonderful book for all ages. I read on Wikipedia that this is a title often gifted to new graduates. It is a great story about life and all its ups and downs.

Here is Celeste's favourite part:

"The Waiting Place...
for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a place to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting."

My favourite is:

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
in any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

I found a youtube video that is interesting to me because a friend attends this event regularly. I would recommend that you view the video on your own first, before watching it with your children. Burning Man is a week-long creative yearly event in Nevada, USA and this video was made with Burners reciting the Dr. Seuss story.









To participate in Book Sharing Monday, you can write your post on your own blog then come here and use the linky tool to share your post. You can also leave me a comment.
The idea of Book Sharing Monday is to share your current favourite children's book by posting some photos and a quote from the book. You can keep your post as simple as you wish or write more if you like! We have found Book Sharing Monday wonderful in the past for discovering new-to-us authors and books.

Happy reading!

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Book Sharing Monday is COMING BACK!

I have decided to start Book Sharing Monday again. I have missed sharing our favourite children books with you all!!

Please stay tuned, I will post more details again on Sunday. I am hoping to find a free linky tool for all of you to share your posts here. If anyone knows of any reliable free tools, please leave me a comment!

Until then, you can go and read all the archives here from my past posts, which include links to other families' book sharing posts.

Here is a description of Book Sharing Monday, if you are not familiar with it:

I created Book Sharing Monday in December 2008 and put out an open invitation. The idea was to share our favourite children books, with a quote from the book and photos if desired. You could share as much or as little as you wanted. I saw it as a sharing of our favourite books of the moment. We shared a lot of picture books, and also novels, non-fiction books, or even books related to children (parenting or other).

JN Mystery Class Update :: Week 3

This past Friday, we were able to position the 10 mystery class locations compared to our home location. We hope to have them in the right order. We will be able to verify once we receive more data. We now have 4 locations in the Southern Hemisphere and 6 in the Northern Hemisphere, our home is also in the Northern Hemisphere.

Journey North helped us place that unknown location that was so close to the Equator by leaving us this clue:

Where Do I Roam?I'm Ursus maritumus. I have a clue for you. More than half of the Mystery classes are located in the same hemisphere where I roam. Can you figure out which ones, using the photoperiod data?

Photo from Journey North.

Great Backyard Bird Count ~ February 19

We decided to go to a local park which is close to a marina, since there was a couple of showings at our house this afternoon. We brought the camera and observed the birds there for about fifteen minutes. It was windy and cold!

We reported seeing:

Canada Goose - 15
Mallard - 11
Ring-billed Gull - 7
Herring Gull - 12.

We think there was probably more, but we counted at least that many before heading back to our car for some warmth!

You can still participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count tomorrow.