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Cool Coins Club Monday–Friday , June 3rd- 7th from 9-9:45 a.m. $30 Did you know that the Ohio state curriculum no longer requires teaching kids about coins until second grade?! Well, at Book Bums we’re crazy about coins, and we have fun ways to teach kids about their names, values, who’s on the heads and what’s on the tails, and even how many drops of water we can fit on each! Kids will receive a cool coin keeper, the featured coin or bill for each day, and other fun items to promote interest in our nation’s cool currency
Price: $30.00 each
Zoo’s Clues Monday–Friday , July 9th- 13th from 9-10 a.m. $30 We’ll identify characteristics of each class of vertebrates! We’ll learn about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. We’ll utilize an inductive approach to determine which animals “go together”. We’ll read fiction and non-fiction books about animals, and create a book to culminate all we’ve learned. We’ll even make our own miniature zoo!
Price: $30.00 each
Sew What? Monday–Friday , July 15th- 19th from 9-10 a.m. $30 Students in this workshop will make a 9 patch pillow using real needles, thread, and fabric! We’ll read about quilts and the ways folks utilized their needlework to record the stories of their lives. We’ll record a bit of our own lives, too!
Price: $30.00 each
What on Earth?! Monday–Friday , July 22nd-26th $30 Continents, oceans, landforms… Oh my! This workshop will promote our great big, beautiful plant Earth. We’ll make models, sing songs, utilize lots of paint and clay and generate long-lasting interest in maps and globes!
Price: $30.00 each
In Other Words Mondays , July 29th- Aug 19th This class will promote an interest in words and their meanings in order to grow students’ vocabularies! Students will create a bust of themselves (with words popping out of their heads), and learn how to learn new and interesting words. We’ll feature words of the day, and we’ll teach and inspire students to collect their own treasured words as well!
Price: $25.00 each
Handwriting Help! Monday-Friday , Aug 12th-16th At Book Bums, we know that when teachers cannot read their students’ writing, the students’ grades are negatively impacted. We also know that there are data supporting the importance of good handwriting. This, however, does not seem to be a priority of our schools. If you want your child’s handwriting to improve, this class is for you! We want our children to be proud of their writing, and we can help! We’ll promote more than proper letter formation. We’ll address spaces, capitals, end marks, and other issues as needed!
Price: $30.00 each
National Book Award Winner One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich’s The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction—at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture
Price: $10.00 each
"Can’t cook but doesn’t bite." So begins the ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so also begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee, Montana. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"—none of them of the textbook variety—Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region’s one-room schoolhouse. A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.
Price: $10.00 each
For much of her life, Anne Morrow, the shy daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has stood in the shadows of those around her, including her millionaire father and vibrant older sister, who often steals the spotlight. Then Anne, a college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Enthralled by Charles’s assurance and fame, Anne is certain the aviator has scarcely noticed her. But she is wrong. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted by an insatiable press, Charles shields himself and his new bride from prying eyes, leaving Anne to feel her life falling back into the shadows. In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements—she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States—Anne is viewed merely as the aviator’s wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life’s infinite possibilities for change and happiness. Drawing on the rich history of the twentieth century—from the late twenties to the mid-sixties—and featuring cameos from such notable characters as Joseph Kennedy and Amelia Earhart, The Aviator’s Wife is a vividly imagined novel of a complicated marriage—revealing both its dizzying highs and its devastating lows. With stunning power and grace, Melanie Benjamin provides new insight into what made this remarkable relationship endure.
Price: $10.00 each
Price: $75.00 each
(Monday - Friday)Examine real fruits and vegetables, Observe a small plant (remove it from soil together, label the parts (root, stem, leaves, flower), The Reason for a Flower- dissect a flower, Pollinators and Decomposers Bees and Worms, Pumpkin Jack, plant seeds in containers
Price: $30.00 each
June 24th-28th Learn about the center of our Solar System, the 8 planets and the asteroid belt, stars, Astronauts, and gravity.
Price: $30.00 each
Learn to speak Spanish.
Price: $30.00 each
Monday-Wednesday July 1-July 3 Learn about the ocean creatures
Price: $20.00 each
Monday-Friday, June 17th-21st Study the Endangered Species!
Price: $30.00 each
Monday-Friday, July 29th- Aug 2nd ANOTHER SESSION Fridays Aug 2nd - Aug 23rd at 10:00 Learn about the weather and Seasons
Price: $30.00 each
Every Monday June 3rd - 24th Come out and have some theater fun!
Price: $30.00 each
Fridays June 7th- June 28th Let's explore music!
Price: $30.00 each
Fridays July 5th - 26th Exploring the wonders of our bodies!
Price: $25.00 each
"Tom Sawyer liked adventures, which means he was always getting in trouble." Searching for treasure, witnessing a murder, getting caught in a bat cave, tricking others into doing his work, running away with Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyer's antics and mischief-making are sheer, child-pleasing delight. Every boy and girl should experience the joy and fun of this classic tale.
Price: $10.00 each
If you were a fuzzy caterpillar crawling through the tall, tall grass on a sunny afternoon, what would you see? Beginning as the sun is high in the sky and ending as fireflies blink and the moon rises above, this backyard tour is one no child will want to miss.
Price: $10.00 each
Shrink, shrank, shrunk! Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads — can it be? — three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Is Stink shrinking? He tries everything to look like he’s growing, but wearing up-and-down stripes and spiking his hair aren't fooling anyone into thinking he's taller. If only he could ask James Madison — Stink's hero, and the shortest person ever to serve as President of the United States. In Stink's first solo adventure, his special style comes through loud and strong — enhanced by a series of comic strips, drawn by Stink himself, which are sprinkled throughout the book. From "The Adventures of Stink in SHRINK MONSTER" to "The Adventures of Stink in NEWT IN SHINING ARMOR," these very funny, homespun sagas reflect the familiar voice of a kid who pictures himself with super powers to deal with the travails of everyday life — including the occasional teasing of a bossy big sister!
Price: $10.00 each
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Book Bums...
We Make Raising Readers Fun!
Olde West Chester
8992 Cincinnati-Dayton Road
West Chester, OH 45069
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Phone- (513) 847-1471
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:30-9:00
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