I don’t remember where Parker first heard about the number googol, but ever since he has been fascinated with it.  So, when I saw the book Can You Count to a Google by Robert E. Wells at the library, I snatched it up!  It’s a very well written book and we had a fun time with it.  It starts with the number one and keeps adding zero until it gets to a googol (a one with 100 zeros!).  It’s very engaging and captures the child’s attention right away.  The first page reads, “If you’re looking for a really big number, it certainly won’t be 1.  One is the number of bananas you can balance on your nose, if you’re a good banana balancer.”

Here is a partial dialouge of the conversation we had while reading this book …
Mom: How long would it take you to spend a million dollars?
Parker: Oh, about 2 days.
Mom: What would you buy if you had a billion dollars?
Parker: A Dollar store!!!

Tags: books, math, numbers

How can you get $300 worth of Books for $75???  By having an Usborne Book Show!  I recently had a show and got double free books (ask me how you can too)!

Most will be used for our studies and they look pretty cool.

Some of the books are Internet-linked and they include some cool links to go learn more.  Pretty neat.

Now I just gotta go find a place to put all these books…

And the kids really enjoy the books.  Here’s a cute picture of Parker reading See Inside Your Body to Sophie.

And to keep from leaving Sarah out, here’s a picture of her posing for me when she saw the camera.

Tags: books, usborne