Homeschooling in California

These books are a great weakness of our family. They had a booth at the homeschool conference we attended in August, and we bought two books despite our plan not to spend money. Our home study program is having a Usborne book fair coming up and will earn free books form any sales. This could be dangerous for me, because I will feel like I’m supporting a good cause if I spend even more.

I was going to write an individual book review tonight, but because my daughter loves, and I mean LOVES all of her Usborne books, I figured I’d give them a general shout out.

Her favorites right now are:

See Inside Your Body – A ‘lift the flap’ book about anatomy and the human body.

See Inside Science – Another ‘lift the flap’ book that covers the bare basics of many science topics.

The History of Flight – this is an early chapter book, yet my 4 year old daughter picks this as her bedtime story often. I’m fairly bored with it, yet she continues to be absorbed in it.

A Child’s Atlas of the World – Some information about different climates around the planet, and very cool (and cute) maps of each continent as well as where each is on the globe.

The Big Book of Playtime Activities – Mostly art projects. But I like it because these projects have gotten even my anti-art daughter interested in making something.

I know they have some neat books for learning foreign languages, and those may be what I look at buying at the book fair.  But I have a feeling we’ll come away with another science book too, since that’s what our girl loves the best.

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