Our list for 30 Books in 30 Days Challenge

As mentioned in the previous post, here is the list of books I am planning to read with Medha in 30 Days Challenge. This is a tentative list that I am planning to read, I may change or add any new book as per Medha's interest on that particular day and/or as per Bubble Ink recommendation.

No.	Book Name	Author	Publisher	MMM Review Link
1	Room On the Broom	Julia Donaldson	Macmillan Children's Books	Review
2	Big Dog Little Dog	P.D.Eastman	RHUS	Review
3	Bear feels Ill	Karma Wilson	Simon & Schuster Childrens Books	Review
4	One Ted Falls Out of Bed	Julia Donaldson	PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
5	Goodnight Gorilla	Peggy Ramnathan	G.P.Putnam Son's	Review
6	Handa's Surprise	Eileen Browne	Candlewick Press	Review
7	Monkey and Me	Emily Gravett	Mac Uk
8	Where is Gola Home?	Chitra Soundar	Tulika
9	Never Too Little to Love	Jeanne Wills	PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
10	Kat and Kit	Tomie, DePaola	Penguin USA
11	Bestfriends forever	Richa Jha	WISDOM TREE-NEW DELHI
12	Monkey Puzzle	Julia Donaldson	PAN MACMILLAN UK
13	The watermelon route	Quentin Greban	Jyotsna Prakashan
14	The Milkman's cow	Vidya Pradhan	CBT Publications
15	Just Like a baby	Juanita Havill and Christine Davenier	Chronicle Books
16	Born to Read	Judy Sierra	Knopf Books
17	Pranav's Picture	Nandini Nayar	Tulika
18	Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose	Julia Donaldson	PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
19	Penguin	Polly Dunbar	Walker Books
20	Chicken Licken
21	The Bad Tempered LadyBird	Eric Carle	Penguin UK
22	"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth	Eric Carle	Puffin Books
23	Hippo has a hat	Julia Donaldson	PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
24	No Matter What (Fox Book)	Debi Gliori	Kindle
25	I like it When	Mary Murphy	Red Wagon
26	Say Boo to the Animals	Ian Whybrow	Macmillan Children's Books
27	What makes a rainbow?	Betty Ann Schwartz	Piggy Toes Press
28	Carduroy	Don Freeman	Puffin Books
29	Purple Jojo	Sameera Zia Qureshi	Tulika
30	When a duckling is scared	Shyamala S
31	Toy Horse	Deepa Agarwal	CBT Publications
32	Where's that Cat?	Manjula Padmanabhan	Tulika
33	Feet Problems
34	Guess how much I love you	Sam MacBratney	Walker Books
35	Postman Bear	Julia Donaldson	Acorn wood
36	Mallipoo Where are You?	Radhika Chadha	Tulika
37	Ekki Dokki	Sandhya Rao	Tulika
38	What Shall I make?	Nandini Nayar	Tulika
39	Party Animals	Kathie Lee Gifford	Perseus Books
40	What did you see?	Nandini Nayar	Tulika
41	Up Down	Vinayak Varma	Tulika
42	If you give a pig Pancake?	Laura Numeroff	Harpercollins
43	Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see?	Eric Carle	Penguin UK
44	Watch Out	Shamim Padamsee	Tulika
45	Mala's Silver Anklets	Annie Besant	Tulika
46	Kangaroo's Cancan Cafe	Julia Jarman	Orchard

Though it's for 30 days, I noted down around 40 books in the list as I can use them if she is interested to read more books on any day. Some of these books are reviewed here in my blog. And also I prepared this list with the books what we have at home only.

And I also decided to take this opportunity to make sure I review each book we read everyday. Please participate in this challenge, get inspired by fellow moms who are reading and start reading to your kids also everyday without fail.

Book Review : Handa's Surprise

~Medha is 3 years old~

I must thank Devaki from Little Reader's Nook for recommending this book in her story sessions. Not only Medha, even I loved this book a lot. This is such cute and sweet story. You must not miss this book for your kids.

Title : Handa's Surprise

Author : Eileen Browne
Age : 2-6 years
Pages : 32
Publisher : Candlewick

30 Books in 30 Days Challenge from Bubble Ink

Despite my best intentions, I never could get myself to blog on a regular basis due to my work commitments and personal as well. I am well aware that blogging is one of the best ways to record all the activities we do and books we read.

This year I resolved to blog more and, luckily, I had a little help. The recently started a blog about book reviews, The Bubble Ink created "30 books in 30 Days" challenge that challenged participants to read a book daily for 30 days. Please read the more details here.

The next post will be the list of books that we are thinking to read during this challenge which is tentative list. We may change the book to read based on Bubble Ink recommendations or Medha's interest. And I am preparing this list as it helps us in identifying what books we have and what we read already and what can we read during challenge.  Keep watching this space and please participate in this challenge to raise readers in your home. :) 

And I am extending this challenge to make sure I review the book I read in the challenge. So "30 Book Reviews in 30 Days challenge", I must say. Looking forward for this challenge to see what others are reading and getting some good recommendations of books for Medha from fellow moms. 

Kick Start of Medha's 4th Year

It's not even a week we celebrated Medha's third birthday last week on 19th, (sorry separate post is on the way on how we celebrated her birthday) - She gave me a big surprise yesterday with a great gift.

She made her own greeting card from the book gifted by her dear neighbor aunt, Meryl, which is about craft tasks that kids can do of Level 3. And when I asked her whom this card is for, she said its for AMMA.

Then just simply I said, write my name on it by mentioning TO. I pronounced it as "T - O, TO" and in the new line my name "LEELA". She knew the spelling of my name except that sometimes she don't mention double E - "LELA".  She took it seriously and got a crayon and started writing it.

And here is the final card she gifted me yesterday night i.e. 24th Feb, 2014.

Card made by Medha with my Name 

Simple Sensory Play with Salt Tray

Why would you need crayons, pencils, paper, white board to draw when you can have more fun with Salt Tray! Draw pictures, write letters, create patterns, and practice writing names with this simple tray.

The greatest thing about this Salt Tray is it is cheap to setup, educational, you will find all the items around the home and trust me it will entertain your little one for hours! This is a great fun activity for kids of all ages.

You just need a tray/plate and salt. You can also use -

• The lid of a plastic tub or container.
• Cardboard box
• Medium Plastic Container that has low sides

Medha Update

The people who follow my blog from beginning they already know that I believe Montessori Curriculum which basically allows kids to learn on their own pace. And in this, kid learns everything with play. 

I can proudly say that whatever Medha learnt till date, it's purely by PLAY. I never asked her to recite /read aloud any letters, numbers or any things. I just planned few activities from the ideas I got from various websites and other internet resources etc. She learnt all her letters, numbers, counting, sorting, and whatever she knew now is purely by PLAY.  That much I love MONTESSORI. 

And to continue same in her early years of education, we decided upon few Montessori Schools and joined her in Roots Montessori, IndiraNagar, Bangalore. But as montessori starts at 2 years 6 months, Medha is little late for Mont 1. (Nursery in usual terms) hence after speaking with management, I joined her in the school from Feb 1st itself. So that she can do the Mont 1 activities for another 6 months until she is 3.5 years and can continue to further levels. 

So far a week, Medha cried on the first day though school is not a new thing for her (she was going to a play school from past 7 months) as she was seeing all new faces. She was in school only for half an hour and then we came back. 

But after coming home, I told her that it's similar to her old school. My Little baby, I don't know how much she understood. But she didn't cry even once from second day. She loved the school as they have various varieties of Montessori toys. Way to Go Medha!! Hope you will love this school much more and enjoy your schooling. :) 

Book Review : Bear Feels Sick

~Medha is 35.5 months old~

I must thank Devaki for sending me this book as part of February theme, Love Makes Our World Go Round, subscription kit from Little Reader's Nook.

Title : Bear Feels Ill

Author : Karma Wilson
Age : 3-7 years
Pages : 40
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Childrens Books