Currently November: Lots Of Things Are Going On!

Yay for November!  It's getting fifty-fifty closer to Jan when I'm the currently sponsor too I acquire to part my Kickstarter amongst a bunch of teachers!

I honey that Farley puts on this smashing linky every calendar month were nosotros acquire to acquire nigh how too thus many instructor bloggers are doing.  I honey to read them all!

Here's mine...

Listening:  Well, it was still.  Now my domestic dog is scratching at my door!

Loving: That my Kickstarter that volition last running December 31-Jan 31 is actually taking shape.  Hooray! You tin grade the axe run into a preview of it here.  Feel gratuitous to write whatever comments! The video is almost done too I but involve to complete working on the recipe pages.

Thinking: I convey been spending a lot of fourth dimension on my mass too the Kickstarter.  I sort of intend of it 24/7--but I convey waited too thus long to run into it come upward to life.  Anyway, involve to ready aside twenty minutes or to a greater extent than a solar daytime to brand certain I but focus on the menage unit of measurement : )

Wanting: My hubby has been sitting on a to create detail I've had for him for a while.  Don't desire to last a nag, but inwards companionship to run on my recipe pages for the mass I involve him to complete processing the pictures he took.

Needing: With all this work, an assistant would last nice!  Any ideas?  One friend of mine said looking into hiring an intern.

Reading: Story Sprouts 2014.  It came out final month!  I've create my stories inwards it, but I involve to complete reading everyone else's.  So far it is amazing!
  I promise everyone has a smashing November!

Fall Is Hither As Well As And Then Is The Mutual Frigidity Season!

It has been a stone oil 2 weeks amongst my kids sick, huband sick, in addition to and so myself getting the yucky coughing in addition to fever/chills too!  So, I haven't been able to teach much math travel done only I direct maintain been actively working on my book--big time.

My friend, Chris Johnston, over at webvidmedia.com finished my Kickstarter video concluding week.  I am totally excited to present it to you!  You tin run across it hither on my work-in-progress Kickstarter page (but my projection volition non hold upward alive until December 31).

Here are about of the fun pictures I got of vecino kids in addition to about of my friends' kids piece I was getting things together for the film...

It was so fun seeing how much the kids enjoyed the mass in addition to about of them actually got into ordering!  The other solar daytime I got to plow it into a image hardcover in addition to I had my miss accept a painting : )

Thanks for all of your back upward in addition to every mo yous tin country I am totally enthusiastic well-nigh my 1st mass inwards the Kids Menu Books serial to hold upward published.  Hope everyone is staying warm in addition to healthy!

Have a keen Veteran's Day!

Pre-Ordering The Pancake Menu! Forthwith On Amazon--So Excited!

Hey everyone, I accept been busy at function together with therefore kids tin accept to a greater extent than fun alongside math.  I made it together with therefore you lot tin instantly pre-order the Kindle version of my book--The Pancake Menu: What volition you lot order?  It's a novelty mass that helps kids practise math equally they play restaurant!  The Kickstarter to run inward Jan is to expose the impress book, only for the tech crowd I likewise accept the Kindle version!

Since I am nonetheless working on roughly of the pages, that is why it is alone for pre-order.  I'm together with therefore excited to fifty-fifty come across it on the Amazon site though : )

Actually, making the Kindle version is taking a chip of fourth dimension because the seem ratio is non the same equally the normal mass size.  So, I am reformatting each page to become into this version.  Here are 2 for you lot to see...

That agency in that location are no blank bars at the hand together with bottom of the enshroud when you lot stance it on your Kindle Fire.

In other things, I accept been working to learn onto local TV stations.  I accept made a yoke TV segment proposals together with I'd endure happy to percentage them alongside you.  This 1 is a cooking demo...

together with the adjacent 1 is mainly to assist kids similar math...

I promise everyone is having a overnice autumn together with staying healthy!  Hopefully you'll endure seeing me on TV shortly talking close my mass : )  Take care!

Using Pancakes To Learn Math? Yup!

Everybody loves pancakes!  I love, love, honey them... I fifty-fifty made a book well-nigh them and I'm hither to exhibit you lot how you lot tin brand them assistance your kids amongst math : )

I'm linking upwards amongst my friend Jamie at Math is Real Life!

You tin link upwards your recent math posts equally well.  If not, nosotros promise you lot savour the ones that link upwards each calendar month : )--Every starting fourth dimension Wednesday!

Finding in addition to next a recipe to brand involves getting out mensuration cups, mensuration spoons, in addition to heating upwards a griddle to a medium temperature!  Fun, hands-on math, right?  I accept a friend who says she solely knows fractions good from doubling or tripling recipes : )

After you lot brand the pancakes the math fun doesn't accept to halt there--you tin pretend to pay for the pancakes yesteryear setting a toll per each one, or offering three for a sure enough price.  Then inquire questions... Which is the ameliorate deal? How much is that per pancake?

With my starting fourth dimension Kids Menu Book, children accept a ton of fun playing amongst the coin in addition to ordering sheets (working on math), finding how much they would pay to gild their selection of pancakes!

So, it's uncomplicated equally that!  Make or in addition to thus pancakes, pretend it's a eating seat in addition to pay for them, using pretend or existent coin i time you lot figure out the total.  Will alter require to survive given? It's actually fun to meet kids figuring it all out. If you lot require play money, you lot tin become to kidsmenubooks.com in addition to impress equally much equally card coin equally you lot need.

Maybe you lot tin explore in addition to inquire other questions... How much would my whole shape require to pay for getting 2 pancakes per student?  What if I needed to add together 10% taxation for my order?  Kids are smart in addition to they tin come upwards up amongst or in addition to thus interesting scenarios spell you're enjoying your pancakes.

Here's the video well-nigh my majority project.  I'm trying to raise funds (only Jan 2015) to position out it : )  Please assistance me larn the give-and-take out yesteryear sharing it amongst friends in addition to supporting it.

Book Launch In Addition To Opened Upwardly To Your Ideas...

I experience similar I'm inwards a chip of a slump... I haven't written a weblog post inwards a few weeks straightaway as well as I'm all the same wickedly busy amongst life.

Here is closed to of what's been going on...

• The Pancake Menu is straightaway on Amazon!  Yay!  That took a spell to railroad train as well as figure out everything
• Fulfilled generally all of my Kickstarter rewards that people purchased... all the same waiting for my loving married adult man to complete the ebook versions.
• I've submitted the mass for a newer mass laurels called the Mathical Award past times Children's Book Council & MSRI (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute).
• I submitted my mass to Costco corporate to hopefully (really everything crossed--fingers, toes, the whole bit) as well as then they volition reckon carrying my mass inwards their warehouses.
• Submitted The Pancake Menu to Barnes as well as Noble to last carried inwards their stores.
• Asked closed to bloggers for mass reviews--let me know if you lot desire to create a mass review.
• Submitted my mass to Timberdoodle--a homeschooling provide site.

All this going on spell taking attention of my kids at home, keeping upwards amongst cooking as well as cleaning, as well as actually pondering how else I tin larn my mass out there.  Here are closed to of my ideas...

• Email homeschooling groups--I could percentage my friend's awesome writeup article she did for my launch. 
• Set upwards schoolhouse visits amongst local uncomplicated schools.
• Call to a greater extent than TV stations to larn closed to media close how fun as well as educational it is.

I'm as well as then excited to larn my mass out there, merely at that topographic point is solely i lilliputian me inwards this whole big world.  Do you lot bring whatever ideas for me?  Do you lot bring a homeschooling grouping that would dear the book?  I'm all ears to require heed your ideas for spreading the give-and-take close The Pancake Menu, a mass for 7-10 yr olds to bring a hands-on math experience!

Thanks!

My Newly Redesigned Majority Site! It's Beautiful Together With Functional.

Hello together with Happy Holidays!

It's that fourth dimension of twelvemonth to alternative out the perfect gifts for people inwards your life together with see alongside identify unit of measurement together with friends. I dear the chill inwards the air together with I'm excited to part alongside you lot my newly designed website for The Pancake Menu together with other fun Kids Menu Books!

You tin forcefulness out notwithstanding companionship the mass from Amazon, exactly you lot tin forcefulness out larn an autographed re-create along alongside the extra items, similar the play coin pack, apron, together with spatula!

Enjoy!

Why I've Been Awol

I was active inwards doing my YouTube channel final twelvemonth as well as things were going well, as well as thence the summertime happened amongst it's choas amongst v kids as well as adventures thence I didn't film.  Then I got sick due to lack of slumber as well as trying to do likewise much.

This schoolhouse twelvemonth has been a challenge amongst v kids inwards v dissimilar schools--two high schools, i middle school, i elemenetary, as well as i pre-school! But nosotros are nearing the cease as well as I select hopes to furnish to blogging, youtubing, as well as getting inwards around 'me' time. My Kickstarter final twelvemonth was unsuccessful thence I didn't acquire to convey Trouble amongst Monkey's into the footing ---yet!

The final few weeks I've been gearing upwardly The Pancake Menu for to a greater extent than sales. I've been giving out bookmarks, I did a presentation inwards a 1st bird classroom.  I tin sack do presentations inwards Kinder -5th bird classes, I simply select the tweak the cloth (I tell the majority is peachy for 2-12 twelvemonth olds : )

One of my practiced editor friends helped me amongst a novel blurb since straightaway I acquire to position my majority on Google Books as well as presently my ePub on Google Play.  

Here is it : ) 345 words (the max was 350)

The Pancake Menu yesteryear Lucy Ravitch is an award-winning interactive painting majority that allows kids to larn of import math as well as personal skills spell playing restaurant!

Children are given a hardbound “menu” listing pancake specials, consummate amongst colorful illustrations as well as featherbrained rhymes. Kids may play alone, as well as run into what they’d similar to gild or come upwardly up amongst a novel pancake idea! Or they tin sack play inwards a group, taking the roles of diners as well as aspect staff. Some children taste playing chef, educate to “cook” or depict a tasty imaginary breakfast.

The majority volition please as well as entertain kids of all ages, including special needs groups, math fans, teachers, as well as parents. It makes an educationally fun rainy solar daytime activity. It’s peachy for play-dates amongst a flair of dramatic play. Teachers taste using it for a multi-purpose math oculus station students love.

Parents as well as teachers taste how easily kids larn currency, counting, multiplication, division, calculating percentages (don’t forget the tip!) as well as social skills through play.

Each pancake featured comes amongst a photographed recipe/direction page printed within fold-out pages. Once play is done as well as it’s fourth dimension to eat, kids as well as their parents tin sack acquire hands-on experience cooking as well as touchstone ingredients.

The Pancake Menu includes optional play money. FREE gild canvas templates as well as printable “Menu Money” are available anytime on www.kidsmenubooks.com. There, parents as well as teachers tin sack also honour a listing of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) ideas yesteryear bird level.

The Pancake Menu was featured on Good Morning America inwards Apr 2015, 3 months earlier its July release, as well as received an IPPY accolade inwards 2016.

The majority is suitable for children 2-12 years old. Children 7-12 volition locomote able to play independently, spell younger children volition taste the pictures as well as rhymes, but may require assistance amongst interactive play.

Although Menu prices are set, they tin sack locomote customized amongst glutinous notes or drawn over amongst a dry out erase marker--in gild to simplify counting for younger children, or give an extra challenge for tweens. Sturdy laminated pages extend the life of the book, making it an exceptionally durable play tool.

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Sounds awesome right! So, if you lot already ain a re-create brand certain to exit a review somewhere as well as for your information hither are the diverse outlets you lot tin sack acquire a copy... inwards no particular order.

Barnes & Noble (let's continue bookstores open)--The Pancake Menu is backordered but you lot tin sack add together it to your wishing listing simply to allow them know in that place is demand for it. It is available for electronically for Nook!

Walmart (Item #559381255) They select i copy, but if to a greater extent than people searched for it I bet they would gild to a greater extent than : )

E-bay This is truly simply me selling to brand around other outlet for the books to sell : ) 

Amazon I send the majority to them as well as and thence they send it to you...all those transportation costs arrive thence I don't acquire much, but if it's the nearly convenient for you, experience gratuitous to gild whichever agency is best for you! Again, it's digital for the Kindle readers too!

The NEWEST! Google Books! inwards the Google Play Store : )