Looking for some seasonal favorites to read to your little learners? Here are some great read-aloud pumpkin books for the month of October! 5 Little Pumpkins: Dan Yaccarino The easy rhyme and familiar rhythm lends itself well to repetition. Dan Yaccarino uses bold colors and simple illustrations to add to this classic rhyme. Extending…
preschool books
The 10 Books every Preschooler should have
The absolute best thing we can do for our preschoolers is read to them every single day. It is the #1 most important factor in school readiness. The perfect preschool books have these things in common: High-Interest with great Illustrations Predictable Patterns or Rhyming Children can memorize them after repeated readings With those criteria in…
5 Favorite Spring Books
It’s Here! It’s Here! Spring is finally HERE! We have been wearing shorts and occasionally going without coats this week. Hooray. To celebrate, let’s look at 5 of our favorite spring books. #1 Mouse’s First Spring by Lauren Thompson I’ve blogged about the Mouse’s First books in other posts. The simple text and beautiful, colorful…
5 Favorite Color Books
This week’s centers included color sorting, color mixing, and color sculptures. Here are our 5 favorite color books to add to the mix. #1 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle It is impossible to talk about color books (or Bear books or Back to School Books)…
5 Favorite Valentine Books
Preschoolers “love” to celebrate Valentine’s Day and friendship. They get so much enjoyment out of exchanging their little Valentine cards and talking about all the things and people they love. Our bookshelf is full of wonderful picture books to help us celebrate this day. Here are our: #1 Sweet Hearts by Jan Carr In this sweet…
5 Favorite Polar Bear Books
It’s “5 Fave Friday!” Our Polar Animals unit was completely derailed by snow days and delays this month. (I had everything really well planned, of course. You know what they say about the best laid plans.) Anyway, we learned about Arctic animals this week. Here are our: #1 – The Three Snow Bears by…