"G" is for Gracie
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She loves and learns with us. And for that we are so 
To Daddy from Katie
/I TOLD you that Kari was writing on the walls. It wasn't me. See, I took a picture!
In the November Basket
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Typepad isn't cooperating with sidebar typelist creation these days. Here are some favorites in our basket for November:
P is for Pilgrim
Another winner from Sleeping Bear Press of our Monday Night Football Geography fame.
This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story
This is a lively counting rhyme with bright, cheerful pictures. Easily memorized in time to impress the grandparents at Thanksgiving Dinner.
N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
This is my absolute favorite Thanksgiving book. The clear, crisp, astonishingly beautiful N. C. Wyeth paintings are so very memorable.
Cranberry Thanksgiving
A Five-in-a Row favorite. It's out of print. The recipe for cranberry bread is quite good.
Autumn Across America
This is a photography book worthy of the coffee table. I can't for the life of me figure out why it's out of print. (Shhh...there are 8 used ones available at Amazon).
Cynthia Rylant makes poetry of November. This is a sensory feast, filled with warmth and snuggling and the gathering of creatures.
We're having SUM fun now!
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There's a new math post up at Serendipity. The gnomes will be back with another adventure after Christmas. Until then, we're playing with our friend Plus. Lots and lots of ideas there for addition adventures. There's a list of living books for math and suggestions for ways to look at numbers and to represent them in pictures. Later in the week, numbers will go three-dimensional as we build equations out of clay. 
And when the autumn winds pick up and the air gets downright nasty, consider just hanging out by the fireplace and letting your children loose on the floor with the gemstones. 
There's no telling where they will go. (Yes, it's a soccer field. Out of gemstones. Apparently, our gnomes got game.)
