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Another way of introducing other cultures and yet relate to school age children who like getting into mischief.

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An easy non-fiction read about two dolphin mates

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This was a creative way of showing how a hermit crab might choose/build his home,  The students enjoyed making their own creative hermit crab homes from classroom materials.

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We did a space unit and completed an activity using Oreos to show the phases of the moon after we read this fictional story.

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This is always a great way to discuss imagination versus reality.

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Always a classic with a great message.

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I loved how this book addressed all the sea animals that were DADS that raised their young.  It was great for the students to see that even in nature, Dads have a hand in raising their children.

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After coming back from the Florida Everglades, I brought this book back to teach the students about what I saw.  It was interesting to learn about how alligators find a mate.

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A student had witnessed some sea turtles being released into the wild, so this book was an excellent resource for the class to learn more.

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The students enjoyed learning about an unusual fish that is local to our area. IT initiated lots of interest about other sea animals found in Virginia Beach.

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The illustrations were breathtaking and encouraged my students to take their time to complete art activities.

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Cute book about how anybody can be a superhero in their own respect.

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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

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This book pinpoints some key features of a classic Kindergarten classroom while also reinforcing alliteration.

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Half of the campers are rising Kindergarten students, the other half are rising First Graders.  This book was a nice way to strike up conversations about what to expect in the upcoming school year for the younger students.

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Although some of the students found this book to be immature, it was fun doing the moves to coincide with classic jungle animal actions.

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Our classroom's theme this summer was "Peter Pan', so this was an obvious choice as a summer reading book.  As expected, the children loved all the different characters in the story.

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We made fresh salsa in our class with some locally grown tomatoes, so this book was just what we needed to get us in the mood.

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The students enjoyed seeing their favorite cat explore "spice" (aka space).

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The students love the use of real and made up Spanish words from this hilarious Siamese cat who thinks he is a Chihuahua with a large imagination.

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Unfortunately, we had a case of the dreaded LICE in our classroom this summer.  This book helped provide a light-hearted approach to this topic and put the students at ease.

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The students enjoyed the repetition and found humor in the fish's grumpy attitude.

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This is a great book for working on comparing and contrasting.  It was also a good review about what a city is versus the country side.  We used the story to make opinion statements about which home we would rather live in.

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After the release of the movie, I thought it was important for the students to hear the original story.  They actually loved it despite the black and white pictures and felt badly for Ferdinand the friendly bull.

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After watching Toy Story as a fun summer treat, this was a perfect way to discuss having an excess of toys and what we could do with them.

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This is a wonderful way to reinforce confidence in individuality.  It also led to a great math activity involving Molly Lou Melon's actual height versus the students in our classroom.

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The kids absolutely loved this fictional story!  The author/illustrator does a wonderful job incorporating the text visually as you read the story.   The students especially liked the actual bite taken out of the book towards the end of the story.  As a teacher and parent, I appreciated the excellent message the story had about the importance of reading.

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Some of our students were having trouble eating lunch, so we decided to review this classic to encourage our students to eat to grow big and strong.

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This was the perfect book to read before doing a farm animal paper mache project.  It was a very different twist on a children's story in which a farmer grew balloon crops instead of real ones.

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Most students had seen the movie version of this story, so it was nice for them to compare it to the book.  We had a fun time writing about what we would want to rain from the sky

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With the onset of rainy weather, this was a great book to read and discuss some of the silly events that happened due to the rain.

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This was a great way to introduce cowboys and all things western as it went through each letter of the alphabet

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An excellent look into the beautiful animals of South America.  Students are introduced to animals such as the quetzal and tapir.

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David Shannon does a wonderful job relating to how children think and where their imaginations take them.  This was a fun book to begin our pirate unit and used fun vocabulary to teach us how to talk like a pirate.

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Students' favorite.  Although David doesn't follow the rules, he is a great example of what NOT to do at home or school.

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This is an excellent way to review character building concepts as well as work on classroom names.

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This is always a great book to review story elements and practice sequencing events.  We followed up the story with a "magic bean" creative writing entry.

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It's always nice to read classic fairy tales to students this day in age.  They enjoyed the familiarity of the story and could retell it easily.

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A comical twist on the classic fairy tale.  It was a fresh look on a story that's been told many times throughout the years.

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This is  a hilarious story about life on a farm  from the (very opinionated) animals' perspective.

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After reading a few other stories in this series, the students requested we read this one as well.  The students thought that this story was more appropriate for dinosaurs' behavior.

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This was an excellent children's book to introduce the simplest version of "gravity" and how it applies to space.

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This was a wonderful way to get the students excited about taking a field trip to the zoo. They created their own Seuss-inspired animals using parts of different common zoo animals and named their creations.

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I loved the contrast between the colored dinosaurs and the black/white settings.  This led to a fun classroom activity in which we made pictures that were similar to illustrate our own thoughts about if the dinosaurs came back.

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Jan Brett's pictures are phenomenal in this fun story about an armadillo's mischief.  It was a great story for our western theme.

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This book had few words.  It would be better for a Pre-K classroom due to the simplified text and cartoon-like pictures.

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This book provided realistic pictures of dinosaurs that were not the typical ones you might think of.  It also included several facts about the size, diet, and habitat of each dinosaur

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This story took us through everything space from A-Z.

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This is an adorable story about not giving up.  The audio recording included an adorable child's voice for Leo that the students couldn't get enough of.

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The students had a great time seeing how huge dinosaurs might show their love.

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As always this series does a nice job of keeping the students intrigued while also providing some beneficial safety tips.  The students loved finding the hidden dinosaur names in each picture.

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Ella is a resilient elephant who is learning that it's ok to be different as long as you always make the right choices.

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This classic tale provided a great lesson for the children about the importance of teamwork.  We had the audio version of the tale which included musical cues as to which character was speaking and helped accentuate their emotions.

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This was  a fun story about farm animals who were trying to figure out what to do with a baby duck.  The story led to some excellent predictions and provided repetition for the class to participate.