I'm BORED...

Have those words ever slipped through your lips? If your mom is like my mom, you'll hear a response that goes something like, "If you can't find something to do, I'll find something for you to do." which usually involved cleaning or weeding the garden.

So, with summer right around the corner, let's start a list of things to do. I did this with some younger kids during "National Turn Off the TV Week" and they got very creative.

I'll start the list. I'll add to it as you leave comments.

• paint a picture
• write a story
• READ a book
• listen to a book on tape or CD from the library
• watch the clouds and see what pictures you can find in them
• play a board game
• draw with chalk on the driveway or sidewalk
• perform a play
• cook something
• use recycled things to create a sculpture
• plant some flowers or vegetables. Water them and watch them grow
• go to a free concert in a park. There are a LOT of them in the summer
• YOUR TURN!

The new list is here!

The new Maud Hart Lovelace books have been announced. Here's the list so you can get started reading them right away. You can find the books on the shelf next to this post. Put your cursor over a book and you can read a description of the book.

Let me know what you think of the new books! I've read six of them already and I can highly recommend Home of the Brave, Schooled, Rules and Princess Academy.


Division I
Champ by Marcia Jones
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat byLynne Jonell
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
Leepike Ridge by Nathan Wilson
Liberation of Gabriel King by K. L. Going
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius Frank Asch
The Thing about Georgie by Lisa Graff
Year of the Dog by Grace Lin


Division II
Cracker!: the Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadahota
Fire From the Rock by Sharon Draper
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
I’d Tell You I Love You, but then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
La Linea by Ann Jaramillo
Leepike Ridge by Nathan Wilson
Life as we Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
Peak by Roland Smith
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Schooled by Gordon Korman