Saturday, February 19, 2011

Warning: Nerd Post

Sad News: Our local Borders is one of the locations the company is closing.

Good News: We went to enjoy the sales at Borders today and found three fun books for Aiden!

He likes them already. He pulled them right off his shelf to read with me tonight. This one is a finger puppet snowman book which kept him amused through most of the very long line at Borders today. He loves that the snowman dances around in the middle of the book while we read!

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This is a very short book, but it has the awesome feature of asking questions with sliding covers over the answers. You can see on the cover I slightly slid the answer “a cat.”

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This last one is my FAVORITE. It will grow with him because it starts off with cute pages saying things like “ONE lamb” and counting up to ten, and then there are pages for you to count items, and it goes on to count by tens up to one hundred; talks about pairs, groups, and halves; telling time and even…

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Look at that! It recognizes that you should say “fewer” when something is countable! Yes, that’s my nerdy English teacher moment of the day. Hey, it could be worse.

1 comment:

Whitney said...

We have the snowman book and Oberlin likes it too :)