Poppins Book Nook ~ Awesome Space Fact files by Miles Kelly and GIVEAWAY

Posted on 27/10/2014 by Momma Jo

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A few weeks ago I shared Koko’s story about his interest in astronomy. This week I’m sharing our Astronomy centre. This month’s Poppins Book Nook theme is “Beyond Our Planet” which is a perfect fit for Koko’s fascination of all things astronomy. We read through the book Awesome Space Fact files by Miles Kelly.

I have set up our astronomy centre on our chest freezer which is high enough for the kidlets to view, but high enough to keep out of Pixie’s reach.

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I received the bulk of the items you see here from South African Astronomical Observatory for free in 2009, in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy.

I made these booklets for Koko and Fifi. You can find them here and I can’t, for the life of me, remember where I got the Solar System booklet download (if you know who the file creator is, please leave a comment below so I can give the proper credit).

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I made these booklets for Pixie. You can find them here and here.

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Next month’s theme is “To the kitchen” and we’ll be cooking up a storm with the book, Made by Manisha and Me!
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Beyond Our Planet 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 a bundle of fun for the theme of Beyond Our Planet. This bundle will include a copy of the storybook The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons and a Space & Astronauts Bucket Playset.

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 Rafflecopter terms & conditions as well as Enchanted Homeschooling Mom’s disclosures found here. Just enter the Rafflecopter below to win:

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Previous Poppins Book Nook posts:
September 2014: White Fang & Giveaway
June 2014: Treasure Island {Part 1}
May 2014: How Old Jackal got the Pigs {African Folktale}
April 2014: The Story of Cars
March 2014: Alice in Wonderland
February 2014: 2014/2015 Introductory post
July 2013: Penguins
June 2013: The Amazing Machines a Truckload of Fun
May 2013: Dinosaurs
April 2013: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
March 2013: Princess Petunia and the Good Knight
2013/2014 Introductory post

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Poppins Book Nook ~ White Fang & Giveaway

Posted on 29/09/2014 by Momma Jo

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WHITE FANG

This month’s Poppins Book Nook Theme is “Wild West”. We read the book White Fang by Jack London.

Jack London’s classic tale of the Half-wolf, half-dog, takes you on White Fang’s epic journey from cub to sled dog, to fighting dog. Living in harsh surroundings with brutal owners, every day is a battle for survival.

We did quite a few wild westified (is that a word?) activities. The kids thoroughly enjoyed them.

We worked on the Poppins Book Nook Wild West Lapbook by Enchanted Homeschooling Mom.

The kidlets each made their own wolf. Source

Fifi and Pixie had a few writing worksheets to work on. Source, Source and Source

Koko had this colour by maths sum answer number worksheet. The colour names are in foreign language, so I had them translated. Thank you Google Translate! Source

The kiddies each got to make a Totem pole. Source

Koko and Fifi had these adorable colour by numbers page to complete. The colour names are in a foreign language, so I had them translated. Thank you Google Translate! Source and Source

Customised writing sheets. Fifi and Pixie each had one with their first name (Pixie’s was a colouring in page with her name on the top) and Koko had one with his full name. Source

Complete the pattern worksheet. Source

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Wild West Learning 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 cowpoke will strike gold and win a bundle of fun for the theme of the Wild West. This bundle will include a copy of the storybook Westward Ho!: An Activity Guide to the Wild West (Hands-On History) and one Wild West Toob. So mosey down to the corral for your chance to win today!

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Previous Poppins Book Nook posts:
June 2014: Treasure Island {Part 1}
May 2014: How Old Jackal got the Pigs {African Folktale}
April 2014: The Story of Cars
March 2014: Alice in Wonderland
February 2014: 2014/2015 Introductory post
July 2013: Penguins
June 2013: The Amazing Machines a Truckload of Fun
May 2013: Dinosaurs
April 2013: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
March 2013: Princess Petunia and the Good Knight
2013/2014 Introductory post

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Poppins Book Nook ~ Treasure Island {Part 1}

Posted on 30/06/2014 by Momma Jo

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Treasure Island (Classic Starts)
By Robert Louis Stevenson

For the next two months we are reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I decided to do a double month of this book seeing as the themes we have for June and July are “The Great Outdoors” and “Ye Old Pirates”. There are so many different activities that can be done with this book. This month we spent 99 % of our dedicated book club time reading the book and when we were done with the theme, the kids made treasure boxes with modelling clay (Fifi) and air drying clay (Koko).

Koko and Fifi are monthly subscribers of the Kidazzle Kids Craft Club and they receive awesome arts and crafts kits every month. Last month they received a modelling clay kit and it was perfect for our Book Nook theme this month. How is that for timing?

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We spent one afternoon out in the warm sun making their treasure boxes. Pixie was napping at this point and the kids could sit and work leisurely without having the little monster causing chaos.

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Koko drew the treasure map on the lid of his treasure box

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Its a little to cold here and air drying the boxes would have taken forever. Koko’s baked perfectly while this was Fifi’s box. Modelling clay CANNOT be put in the oven. This picture was taken 5 minutes after putting it into a low oven. Her new box is still drying, I will feature it next month. *face palm*

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Koko’s treasure box. He decided to leave it unpainted to make it look dirty since it was supposedly buried for a long time.

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Koko’s treasure box with treasure.

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Be sure to check in again next month to see the activities I have planned as we continue to navigate the pirate infested waters!

Previous Poppins Book Nook posts:
May 2014: How Old Jackal got the Pigs {African Folktale}
April 2014: The Story of Cars
March 2014: Alice in Wonderland
February 2014: 2014/2015 Introductory post
July 2013: Penguins
June 2013: The Amazing Machines a Truckload of Fun
May 2013: Dinosaurs
April 2013: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
March 2013: Princess Petunia and the Good Knight
2013/2014 Introductory post

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Poppins Book Nook ~ How Old Jackal got the Pigs {African Folktale}

Posted on 26/05/2014 by Momma Jo

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The kidlets hated this month’s book. I eventually gave up trying to force them to listen to the stories that obviously held no appeal to them.

So to keep the theme alive this month, I made a few fun lunches. Here’s one following the pig theme of the folktale “How Old Jackal got the Pigs”.

Cheese sandwich cut into a circle with a cookie cutter, circle edible wafer paper with a nose drawn on it in edible ink marker and candied eyes.
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Next month’s theme is “The Great Outdoors” and we’ll be reading, Treasure Island, an adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson original.

Previous Poppins Book Nook posts:
April 2014: The Story of Cars
March 2014: Alice in Wonderland
February 2014: 2014/2015 Introductory post
July 2013: Penguins
June 2013: The Amazing Machines a Truckload of Fun
May 2013: Dinosaurs
April 2013: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
March 2013: Princess Petunia and the Good Knight
2013/2014 Introductory post

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Poppins Book Nook ~ The Story of Cars by Katie Daynes

Posted on 28/04/2014 by Momma Jo

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Koko just LOVED this book. Its all about the history of auto mobiles. It was a fun book to read and we had so many different activities that we did throughout this month.

The kidlets spent ages playing in the garden with the boys’ cars, building roads and little towns to play in. They even made a little dam and all needed a good scrubbing when they were done. I love that even during our cooler weather, its still warm enough to have some good old messy fun.

Koko received a Cosmic Jet Robot kit for his birthday. We put it together and he had loads of fun with it. It didn’t last long once Pixie got hold of it and slobbered the balloon, LOL.
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Join us again next month when we read Old Hendrik’s Tales – 13 South African Folk Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughn. We have the Ebook.
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Previous Poppins Book Nook posts:
Alice in Wonderland
2014/2015 Introductory post
July 2013: Penguins
June 2013: The Amazing Machines a Truckload of Fun
May 2013: Dinosaurs
April 2013: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
March 2013: Princess Petunia and the Good Knight
2013/2014 Introductory post

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Poppins Book Nook ~ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Posted on 31/03/2014 by Momma Jo

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The kids really loved this book and the work we did around it.

Fun lunches:
Snail lunch (circles cut out of bread filled with grated cheese, a banana for the snails body, grated cheese for the antennae and icing pens for the eyes and mouth. I use tomato sauce to make the pattern on the bread)
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Queen of Hearts lunch (heart sandwich filled with egg salad, diamond mini muffin cup with grapes and a clock drawn on rice paper with a food marker)
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Fifi and I did quite a bit of baking this month for all the tea parties we had. We had one almost every day. Fifi and Pixie loved it, Koko… Not so much, LOL. Turns out, boys aren’t crazy about tea parties. Who knew 😛
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Pixie also got in the baking fun
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After finishing the book, we watched the movie. The kids didn’t enjoy it as much as they enjoyed the book. I was very surprised by that.
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I didn’t take any photos of the kids busy with their theme packs, but I’ve added the links to the resources we used below.
Resources:
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll on Amazon
Alice in Wonderland – Alice, Chesire cat, Mad Hatter Clipart and graphics
My Alice in Wonderland board on Pinterest
Alice in Wonderland Paper Dolls
Alice in Wonderland Unit Study by Enchanted Homeschooling Mom

Next month the theme is

Previous Poppins Book Nook posts:
2014/2015 Introductory post
July 2013: Penguins
June 2013: The Amazing Machines a Truckload of Fun
May 2013: Dinosaurs
April 2013: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
March 2013: Princess Petunia and the Good Knight
2013/2014 Introductory post

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