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Great book for learning about the five senses and making text to self connections for conversation

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AMAZING book about the needs of trees, and their relationships with other organisms in a forest biome.

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Amazing book about prototyping and the importance of failure as a teacher. Must read before design challenges.

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Beautiful book about place based learning with some examples of how to document thinking and learning via sketchbook from a fictional perspective. A must read before going to a field trip or community walk and can help set up expectations for documentation.

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A read aloud about the importance of iteration and persistence. Great for design thinking, building, etc.

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"An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season" good book for land based learning and recognizing changes in the seasons.

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Building things

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Colours

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Sequel to The Leaf Thief. Squirrel is trying to protect a single flower. Silly and highly engaging.

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Recycling

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On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries.

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Fictional story that introduces the four sacred medicines (there is an outcome about how plants are used by humans as medicine and for connection)

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Animal Habitats

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This one is great for a tale of why we have night and day. INDG perspective and story to match cycles. Turtle Island Voices have many INDG books.

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Senses

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The responsibility to care for environments is shared by all people and is fulfilled by showing respect for and protecting all aspects of nature.

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How seasonal changes appear in the environment

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Introduces hibernation but also great for retelling events and using voice when doing a oral retell.

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The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations and experiences.

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A fun, playful winter book about a bunny skiing.

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Seasonal changes

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Great for non-fiction books that align with a variety of outcomes

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Knowledge:
Seasonal changes may affect a variety of choices and activities, such as

clothing choices

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Great for predicting and retelling literacy connections. Used it to explore the idea of what happens to the leaves when they fall off the tree.

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This read aloud supports inferencing, predictions, text to self, text to text and text to world connections (sit spots).

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Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all . . .

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When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth
And poison her people’s water, one young water protector
Takes a stand to defend Earth’s most sacred resource.

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How do plants and animals survive?

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Encourages finding math concepts in nature. There is a book for each season to support community walks.

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Natures effect on our lives.

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Read 87 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A hilarious illustrated non-fiction book about the worm, perfect for beginning readers. The...

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Knowledge:
Some places have fewer than four seasons, such as

two seasons: rainy and dry

three seasons: cool or cold, rainy, and dry

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Includes a poem for the changing of each month. Use with your calendar routine to introduce the indigenous perspectives on seasonal changes using turtle island.

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Seasons, Indigenous Calendar, Animals

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Shows animals and nature changes that take place in spring. Can do a visual journal page showing what takes place above the dirt and what changes take place below the dirt.

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A great Winter story that connects to the senses unit.

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Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions

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The Origin of Day and Night is a retelling of an Inuit folktale about two animals, a hare and a fox, who rely respectively on daylight and moonlight to find their food sources. As a result, there is conflict as neither can agree on whether it should be light or dark.

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Fiction and Non-Fiction combined

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Shows changes in the seasons and animal changes (hibernation) in winter. Great to go with an art project or a collaborative bulletin board showing what happens above the snow and what things are hidden below the snow.