Orange Anzac Biscuits

I tried these recently and they are now our favourite recipe for Anzacs...chewy and with a twist to the traditional recipe...yum!

1 cup plain flour
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup shredded (or dessicated) coconut
1 cup flaked almonds (fine if you don't have these)
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 tsp finely grated orange rind
125 grams butter
2 Tablespoons golden syrup
2 teaspoons water
1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda

Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius
Line baking tray
Combine oats, coconut, almonds, sugar and orange rind
Stir butter, golden syrup and water in saucepan until it melts
Stir in bicarb soda
Add to oats mixture
Roll tablespoons of mixture into balls
Place on lined baking tray
Bake around 18 minutes, or until you can gently push them across the paper
Set aside 10 minutes until cool
Transfer to wire rack

Delicious!!

Bookie Monsters Book Club

Yay! I have just joined a brand new book club, and attended its inaugural meeting...pink champagne, cheeses, crackers, tea and cake...oh yes, and taking time to choose our book list!

We are beginning with:

The Finkler Question

The other titles above will follow.

Child Author

Now this is inspiring!!!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/02/16/3140857.htm

Premier's Reading Challenge

The link for this is as follows:

https://products.schools.nsw.edu.au/prc/rules.html

Introduction to Spalding Webinar

http://homeschoolblogger.com/webinar/homeschooling-teaching-a-love-of-reading/

This link is purely for my own reference purposes. I would love to teach my six year old the 'Writing Road to Reading' and intend on doing the ten hour online homeschoolers course.

Compare Prices of Books - Great Site!!!

The designer of this site says:
"Booko is a site with a very simple goal - to find the cheapest place to buy books & DVDs in Australia. This site started out as a personal itch and has slowly grown into a very handy site, slowly adding more shops for comparison and more features to make it easier to use."

Have a look here:

http://www.booko.com.au/

Enjoy!!!

What Captain is Reading

His growing list:

March 2010
Five Children and It, by Edith Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet, by Edith Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet, by Edith Nesbit

April 2010
Astreix Omnibus
Pannikin and Pinta by Colin Thiele
almost the whole series of Geronimo Stilton

May/June 2010
Kingdom series by Chuck Black:
Kingdom's Dawn
Kingdom's Hope
Kingdom's Edge
Kingdom's Call
Kingdom's Quest
Kingdom's Reign

Captain says: I like it because its set in medieval times with many sword battles and its based on bible stories.

The First Deltora Quest series by Emily Rodda:
The Forests of Silence
The Lake of Tears
City of the Rats
The Shifting Sands
Dread Mountain
The Maze of the Beast
The Valley of the Lost
Return to Del

Captain says: I like it because they find gems for a belt that keeps
Deltora safe from the Shadow Lord.

Dragons in our Midst series by Bryan Davis:
Raising Dragons book 1
The Candlestone book 2
Circles of Seven book 3
Tears of a Dragon book 4

Captain says: I like the two people that have dragon powers so they are fully dragon and fully human - they call them anthrozils. Billy is able to breathe fire and Bonnie has wings.

The Second Deltora Quest series by Emily Rodda:
Cavern of the Fear
The Isle of Illusion
The Shadowlands

Captain says: I like how they go to the Shadowland Arena and they look for the pirran pipe. Pirra is now the Shadowlands.

Captain and his dad want The Deltora Quest to be made into a movie...they love it.

July 2010
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright

Captain says: Both books are really exciting because they found lots of old houses and they got to live in one. And then they get to see some people who used to live there when it was a lake - but now its a swamp.

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Captain says so far: I'm enjoying reading it because he goes and lives on an island, and find some murderers.