elizabeth roberts

We just decided to start keeping a question notebook. We write down questions that we have, and we talk about the answers - if we don't know the answer, then we look it up as soon as possible.

Most of these are from Sarah, but Logan has a few he wanted to know today.

Was Anastasia a real person? Why was she and her family killed? What other countries have a monarchy? Does Spain have a monarchy? Who is in charge of England now? Why do they have both a Prime Minister AND the Queen, isn't that the same? Why isn't it? Why do they even have a Queen anymore if they don't have any power? (discussion on British line of succession) Why doesn't the US have a monarchy? Why can the Pres only be president twice? Has anyone ever been president more than twice?

What is plaster? What is rubber? What is cement? What is paint made out of?

What do aardvarks eat?

Why do we have the internet?

Why does the ceiling look like cottage cheese?

What is pepper?

How are photographs made?

Why is gold rare?

Are lizards cold blooded? Are bats warm or cold blooded? Are cats warm or cold blooded?

How do lightbulbs work?

What is the flu?

****If anyone wants to contribute to the list anything they can think of answering for their children today, or helping their children to find out for themselves, why not add it? It would be interesting to me to see what sorts of things have been questioned today!

Beth, NC



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Drew & Tami

>>> Was Anastasia a real person? Why was she and her family killed? <<<

Two summers ago, there was an exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Fine
Arts called "Nicholas and Alexandra: At Home With the Last Tsar and His
Family", I loved it. Cassidy (then 4) was unimpressed until I explained
who Anastasia was and that these were her real toys and dresses and such.
She had not seen the Disney movie, and when she did, she was amazed that
there was a cartoon about a "real girl".

I bought the book "The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra" by Petet
Kurth. It's full of pictures--photos, artwork, etc and tells the whole
story very nicely. You can maybe get it at amazon, or the library might
have it thru ILL.

Tami, who did find it a little creepy that Alexandra's underwear was on
disply-- wonder what she'd have thought if she knew!


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elizabeth roberts

Wow..that does sound interesting! Thanks...we will look for the book! :-)

Beth

Drew & Tami <atj090@...> wrote:

>>> Was Anastasia a real person? Why was she and her family killed? <<<

Two summers ago, there was an exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Fine
Arts called "Nicholas and Alexandra: At Home With the Last Tsar and His
Family", I loved it. Cassidy (then 4) was unimpressed until I explained
who Anastasia was and that these were her real toys and dresses and such.
She had not seen the Disney movie, and when she did, she was amazed that
there was a cartoon about a "real girl".

I bought the book "The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra" by Petet
Kurth. It's full of pictures--photos, artwork, etc and tells the whole
story very nicely. You can maybe get it at amazon, or the library might
have it thru ILL.

Tami, who did find it a little creepy that Alexandra's underwear was on
disply-- wonder what she'd have thought if she knew!


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Sandra Dodd

Sunday night Holly and I were in the hot tub and she asked me (out of
the blue, it seemed) whether people actually really ever put messages
in bottles. I said I thought so, and that there are streams and
flows in oceans, so they might know where they were likely to end
up. But I said I thought also people had done it just for fun, like
letting a balloon go up with your name and address fastened to it
(she knows a story about that from Ripley's Believe It or Not).

Tuesday morning, I was looking for a rhyming dictionary link, and
found this:

http://www.poetry.com/timeless/default.asp

It's not an answer to the question, but it's a heck of a good
coincidence. They're selling pretty bottles with poems on pretty
paper, mailed to where you order.

Sandra

lefty1foot

Here's a recent blurb on a message in a bottle -

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/06/message.bottle.ap/index.html

Susan


--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
wrote:
>
> Sunday night Holly and I were in the hot tub and she asked me (out of
> the blue, it seemed) whether people actually really ever put messages
> in bottles. I said I thought so, and that there are streams and
> flows in oceans, so they might know where they were likely to end
> up. But I said I thought also people had done it just for fun, like
> letting a balloon go up with your name and address fastened to it
> (she knows a story about that from Ripley's Believe It or Not).
>
> Tuesday morning, I was looking for a rhyming dictionary link, and
> found this:
>
> http://www.poetry.com/timeless/default.asp
>
> It's not an answer to the question, but it's a heck of a good
> coincidence. They're selling pretty bottles with poems on pretty
> paper, mailed to where you order.
>
> Sandra
>

elizabeth roberts

These connections from questions are awesome! :-)

Beth


lefty1foot <lefty1foot@...> wrote:
Here's a recent blurb on a message in a bottle -

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/06/message.bottle.ap/index.html

Susan


--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
wrote:
>
> Sunday night Holly and I were in the hot tub and she asked me (out of
> the blue, it seemed) whether people actually really ever put messages
> in bottles. I said I thought so, and that there are streams and
> flows in oceans, so they might know where they were likely to end
> up. But I said I thought also people had done it just for fun, like
> letting a balloon go up with your name and address fastened to it
> (she knows a story about that from Ripley's Believe It or Not).
>
> Tuesday morning, I was looking for a rhyming dictionary link, and
> found this:
>
> http://www.poetry.com/timeless/default.asp
>
> It's not an answer to the question, but it's a heck of a good
> coincidence. They're selling pretty bottles with poems on pretty
> paper, mailed to where you order.
>
> Sandra
>











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elainegh8

> Sunday night Holly and I were in the hot tub and she asked me (out
of > the blue, it seemed) whether people actually really ever put
messages > in bottles. I said I thought so, and that there are
streams and > flows in oceans, so they might know where they were
likely to end > up. But I said I thought also people had done it
just for fun, like > letting a balloon go up with your name and
address fastened to it

Hi
This might interest Holly and others. I watched a programme called
Coast on Monday. It's a series by the BBC and gives a tour of the
coast of the UK. It talks about the people, wildlife, geology, history
and archaeology of each section of a coastal walk.

This time they were on the North Cornwall coast. This is one of the
best places for beachcombing in the whole of the UK. They visited a
bloke who beachcombs all the time. He had a box full of flat, orange,
rectangular plastic tags that all had telephone numbers on. It turns
out the bloke phone one of the numbers and they are tags used by US,
can't remember if it's crab or lobster, fishermen from a particular
part of the coast of the US!

BWs Elaine

Schuyler Waynforth

Another message in a bottle story:

http://www.physical.com/message/

And a bit of a history of messages in bottle:
http://www.timespub.tc/Astrolabe/Archive/Fall2001/message.htm

Schuyler


--- In [email protected], Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
wrote:
>
> Sunday night Holly and I were in the hot tub and she asked me (out of
> the blue, it seemed) whether people actually really ever put messages
> in bottles. I said I thought so, and that there are streams and
> flows in oceans, so they might know where they were likely to end
> up. But I said I thought also people had done it just for fun, like
> letting a balloon go up with your name and address fastened to it
> (she knows a story about that from Ripley's Believe It or Not).
>
> Tuesday morning, I was looking for a rhyming dictionary link, and
> found this:
>
> http://www.poetry.com/timeless/default.asp
>
> It's not an answer to the question, but it's a heck of a good
> coincidence. They're selling pretty bottles with poems on pretty
> paper, mailed to where you order.
>
> Sandra
>

Sandra Dodd

On Feb 15, 2006, at 4:19 AM, Schuyler Waynforth wrote:

> Another message in a bottle story:
>
> http://www.physical.com/message/
>
> And a bit of a history of messages in bottle:
> http://www.timespub.tc/Astrolabe/Archive/Fall2001/message.htm
>
> Schuyler


This stuff is cool. When Holly gets back we'll have a super-busy
week, and I don't know when we'll get some leisure to look through it
all, so I'm saving all the links, and thanks, all of you!

I *love* connections.

Sandra

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sandalmom

When I read about Holly's message in a bottle question, I thought of
the book Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling. If you're not
familiar with it, its a fictional story about a boy who carves a
wooden canoe and his instructions on the bottom and sets it off in the
spring from Nipigog, just North of the Great Lakes. It's a great
story, and has good maps. The canoe travels for years out to the
Atlantic.

He wrote a similar story about a turtle which we have not gotten to.

Not sure if that's Holly's cup 'o tea, but we liked it.

~Christa

Sandra Dodd

On Feb 15, 2006, at 1:56 PM, sandalmom wrote:

> Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling



Thanks. My husband will be really interested even if Holly isn't. I
ordered a used former-library copy.

We've talked sometimes about what happens if something is thrown into
the Rio Grande or the Mississippi at one place or another. There are
dams, for one thing.

Sandra

Liz in AZ

Christa, I immediately thought of the same book! It has been a
favorite of mine since I was a child.

And then I thought of my dd when she was 2 dropping leaves in a
stream while we were camping and saying "paddle to the sea! paddle
to the sea!", and I got teary thinking of her sweet toddler voice.
(Okay, she's only 4.5 now, but I still get maudlin and nostalgic
from time to time.)

Liz (Meredith 4.5, Simon almost 1)

--- In [email protected], "sandalmom"
<christa.mente@...> wrote:
>
>
> When I read about Holly's message in a bottle question, I thought
of
> the book Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling. If you're not
> familiar with it, its a fictional story about a boy who carves a
> wooden canoe and his instructions on the bottom and sets it off in
the
> spring from Nipigog, just North of the Great Lakes. It's a great
> story, and has good maps. The canoe travels for years out to the
> Atlantic.
>
> He wrote a similar story about a turtle which we have not gotten
to.
>
> Not sure if that's Holly's cup 'o tea, but we liked it.
>
> ~Christa
>

Katy Jennings

--- In [email protected], "sandalmom"
<christa.mente@...> wrote:
the book Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling. If you're not
familiar with it, its a fictional story about a boy who carves a
wooden canoe and his instructions on the bottom and sets it off in
the spring from Nipigog, just North of the Great Lakes.>>>

There is a sweet book called The Littlest Matryoshka, it is about
the smallest sister in a set of Russian nesting dolls, she gets
knocked off of the shelf in a toy store, gets washed down a gutter,
buried by snow, picked up by a heron, etc. The rest of the sisters
are bought by a little girl (for cheap, since the set is incomplete)
who loves them. The littlest sister eventually makes her way to the
little girl and reunites with her sisters. Very sweet story.


Someone (Elaine?) mentioned the lobster tags that a beachcomber had
found. I just watched a show about those, they "taggers" want to
know where the animals are ending up, so sometimes some random tags
come with a reward, if you call and tell the researcher where you
caught the lobster or crab or whatever, they will send you a small
check. Kinda cool.

Katy J. in Southern NM

Sandra Dodd

On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Katy Jennings wrote:

> There is a sweet book called The Littlest Matryoshka, it is about
> the smallest sister in a set of Russian nesting dolls, she gets
> knocked off of the shelf in a toy store, gets washed down a gutter,
> buried by snow, picked up by a heron, etc. The rest of the sisters
> are bought by a little girl (for cheap, since the set is incomplete)
> who loves them. The littlest sister eventually makes her way to the
> little girl and reunites with her sisters. Very sweet story.


I'll look for that for sure, because two books Holly really likes are
The Tub People, and The Doll People, both of which sound to have
similarities to that. She just finished re-reading The Doll People,
and then went to The Borrowers, which is also some little people
living within a house of people who don't know of their secret lives.

Sandra

Betsy Hill

** I'll look for that for sure, because two books Holly really likes are
The Tub People, and The Doll People, both of which sound to have
similarities to that. She just finished re-reading The Doll People,
and then went to The Borrowers, which is also some little people
living within a house of people who don't know of their secret lives.**

Some of my favorite dolls stories when I was a kid were by Rumer
Godden. I especially like Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, about
building a Japanese doll house for a couple of homesick Japanese dolls
in London. (It is aimed at kids a couple of years younger than Holly, FYI.)

Betsy

Sandra Dodd

On Feb 15, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Betsy Hill wrote:

> I especially like Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, about
> building a Japanese doll house for a couple of homesick Japanese dolls
> in London. (It is aimed at kids a couple of years younger than
> Holly, FYI.)


I learned about that book from an unschooling discussion like this,
and found it within a week or so, an original hardback with screen-
printed pages. Gave it away to a really good friend of mine who
liked girlie things. We have a paperback copy now. Holly doesn't
care about age recommendations. She's perfectly happy to go between
My Little Pony and Stephen King. I should put that one in her path.

Sandra

peacemama45

There is a short video out based on the book as well. Alex


--- In [email protected], "sandalmom"
<christa.mente@...> wrote:
>
>
> When I read about Holly's message in a bottle question, I thought of
> the book Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling. If you're not
> familiar with it, its a fictional story about a boy who carves a
> wooden canoe and his instructions on the bottom and sets it off in the
> spring from Nipigog, just North of the Great Lakes. It's a great
> story, and has good maps. The canoe travels for years out to the
> Atlantic.
>

Rue Kream

>>I'll look for that for sure, because two books Holly really likes are
The Tub People, and The Doll People

**I'll be looking for that one too. Rowan has read The Tub People and The
Doll People over and over. She also liked The Meanest Doll in the World,
another story about the Doll People. We've been on the look-out for other
books about dolls who are alive. So far we've found:

Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, which she enjoyed but thought was too short.
She really liked the references to Japanese houses/clothing/etc.

Behind the Attic Wall, which she liked a lot even though it's a little more
serious than what she usually likes and has a sad part.

The Mennyms, which we're about half-way through. It has one character in
particular that she thinks is really funny (a very important consideration
in books for Rowan :o)). ~Rue


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Joyce Fetteroll

On Feb 15, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Rue Kream wrote:

> We've been on the look-out for other
> books about dolls who are alive.

How about:

Hitty Her First Hundred Years (Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0689822847/
ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/002-5649649-0528030?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-
reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155

Which has been changed a bit and illustrated by Susan Jeffers:

Rachel Field's Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689817169/qid=1140086969/sr=1-1/
ref=sr_1_1/002-5649649-0528030?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

I read the original as a child and read the updated one to Kathryn.
Lots of reviewers are outraged that Rosemary Wells made any changes.
I remember really liking the original though I can't recall any
details and I liked the new version just fine.

Joyce

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Rue Kream

>>How about:Hitty Her First Hundred Years

**Thanks, Joyce - that looks like one Rowan would like :o). ~Rue

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nellebelle

>>>>>>>>>>>We've been on the look-out for other
> books about dolls who are alive>>>>>>>>>>

We have The Doll People in audio and have listened to it over and over. Had
tons of discussions on the difference in Annabelle's personality in The Doll
People vs in The Meanest Doll in the World (which we didn't enjoy as much).
This book has sparked many, many conversations. I loved the Borrowers when
I was a kid. There is similar series about The Littles, but I don't think
it is as good.

The Indian in the Cupboard series has play figures that come to life and is
set in England.

The Castle in the Attic and The Battle for the Castle involve boys shrinking
down to play figure size and going on adventures in the past.

I'm trying to remember the name of a book about a boy who finds a very old
doll in his grandmother's attic. She talks but only children can hear her.
The boy keeps the doll, but doesn't want his dad to know. The dad is one of
those "boys do sports, not dolls" types. We loved this book even though I
cried at the ending (a bittersweet one). Does anyone know it?

Slightly related - I belong to a monthly book club. The months that we read
fiction usually have way better discussions than the months we read
*classics* or non-fiction. A story can lead to all kinds of thinking,
talking, and learning.

Mary Ellen

nellebelle

I remember! Lady Daisy by Dick King-Smith. I think this is set in England.

Mary Ellen


----- Original Message ----- > I'm trying to remember the name of a book
about a boy who finds a very old
> doll in his grandmother's attic. She talks but only children can hear
> her.

jessi koons

I feel sheepish doing another book recommendation (I don't think they're all there is in the world or anything, but I did work in a bookstore for four years, and some old habits seem to stick):
The Bromeliad Trilogy (individual names: Truckers, Diggers, and Wings) by Terry Pratchett is about nomes living secretly in normal-sized human world. Pratchett is a satirist (and a very funny one), so you get a lot of commentary on perception, when your noticing how weirdly the nomes interpret phenomena from the human world. You can pretty well enjoy the books on several different planes (satire, story, etc). Oh, his first ever book was also along those lines, called the Carpet People. You'd probably have to order it, if you're interested.
And, no, I'm not a book publisher publicist or anything. :)
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elainegh8

Rumer Godden was home educated. Thought it might interest someone :)

BWs Elaine

> Some of my favorite dolls stories when I was a kid were by Rumer
> Godden. I especially like Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, about
> building a Japanese doll house for a couple of homesick Japanese
dolls
> in London. (It is aimed at kids a couple of years younger than
Holly, FYI.)
>
> Betsy
>