Sorry readers,
It seems that it is much harder for me to post now that I am without a laptop.
We have been doing some fun fall activities this week now that the leaves are actually beginning to fall off the trees. Snow White made a beautiful Leaf collage.
One of the favorite activities this week is the life cycle of a pumpkin. I printed off cards and the children put them in order with a control chart.
The playdough we made is also very entertaining. 2 children worked for over an hour with it. (I don’t blame them, we used red and yellow food coloring (to make orange of course), cinnamon, and ground cloves.
One day we even made homemade soup and bread and baked yummy Texas brownies. Fall seems like such a wonderful time of year to introduce many of these practical life skills.
I have also been busy trying to categorize all my children books. i know I have more than 200, and after entering over half of them into the program I want to use, I realized that I may have to start all over. The program I am using is called LibraryThing. I will let you know my full opinion of it once I have everything figured out and entered!
My Boys' Teacher
Tuesday 27th of October 2009
You do NOT have to start over...LOL! Complaints about Amazon being inaccurate are generally in the children's book fiction categories. There are two ways to label fiction for young children. "E" then the author's last name (first three letters), ie (E bar) for a book by Byron Barton. The other is by "E" then a number like "E 92." I can't seem to find ANY information on the "E" plus a number ANYWHERE. No idea which number is what kind of category. People complain that "E 92" might be science and amazon puts a religion book in there or something. Since you are using libarything and can find a book by category on your computer whenever you want, I think it would be a waste of time to use the "E" plus a number designations. My library doesn't even use those, I bet yours doesn't either. Just label all your fiction with "E" plus the first three letters of the author's last name. You don't have to look that up or anything, and you can change it in your database whenever you find one labelled the other way. The non-fiction tend to be accurate, and for your home library all that matters is that the computer matches what is on your shelf. And that probably doesn't even matter for fiction, because all you need is the author's last name.
Long term, for accuracy you will put in the books AS YOU CONTINUE using Libarary of Congress as a source instead of Amazon. You can do this without re-doing anything else you've entered.