Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Preschooler, Preschooler, What Do you See?

For our Sense of Sight Day we like to make a class book. It's a spin off of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?" A great child's classic!! Brown Bear is such a great book to read because the children can help you read from just one reading. It's so repetitive and the pictures are so easy to follow!! What a great sense of accomplishment!
So anyway, I have the children think of something they see at school and draw a picture of it.
These are pages done from a previous year. You can write the words or type them. Then on the page before each drawing I put the words, "Preschooler, Preschooler, what do you see?" and their picture below it.
This becomes a book that is read OFTEN in our classroom. I also take the pages to a copy center and have a copy made for each child. This is great book to keep to remind them of preschool, their friends, and something they might have seen (or not seen) when they were young. So parents of kids in my classroom, you heard me right.....a copy of the book will be coming home to you shortly!!
Happy reading!!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

"It's Chow Time" Books

These are some of the books I've used for my unit "It's Chow Time"
HAPPY READING!!
I love that this book makes it so easy to help the children understand the different food groups!!
"Eating the Alphabet" introduces different foods that start with the letters of the alphabet. It's fun to see the foods that we are all familiar with, but then others that the children might never have heard of!!

This book is always a favorite!! The monkey absolutley LOVES spaghetti and she doesn't want to do anything else. When her friend finally tries the spaghetti he can't stop eating it either.

As I have said before I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Robert Munsch. He is definatley one of my favorite authors!! "More Pies" is a book about a boy who thinks he is absolutley STARVING. When he goes to the fair and wins the pie eating contest he ends up getting sick!! The kids just laugh and laugh!!

A great Caldecott Honor book. It's fun to talk about all the fruits we like to pick and I love to hear about the kids who have helped their mommies can fruits into jams, etc!!
A CLASSIC and a favorite! Enough said! We read this book many times throughout the year. With this unit we talk about how the caterpillar got sick eating all of the junk food and how the leaf made him feel much better!! Another classic and children's favorite!
I have a few different versions of the Little Red Hen. It's a great book to tie into our Grain day!! The children love hearing all of the different versions and trying to figure out how they are different and the same! Great literacy development!!

Like I said before - ROBERT MUNSCH!! I just love him!!

This is another of my favorite for this unit!! Gregory is one of the only goats who likes to eat "regular" food instead of junk like tires, cans, paper sacks, etc. The kids just love all of the funny foods goats eat and we talk about healthy/unhealthy choices of food we can eat!!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Valentines and Friendship Books

I wanted to share some of the books we'll be reading for our Valentines and Friendship unit. From love, hearts, kindness, friendship and more.....we always LOVE our books in preschool!!
I absolutley LOVE Robert Munsch. His books ALWAYS grab the kids interest and they are so FUN to read. The kids always say....."Read it again, read it again!" with any of his books!!
"But Mama, would you love me if I was a STINKY SKUNK?" The kids just crack up!! I don't know why it's so funny, but they adore this book!
Yes, there is a time and a place to be loud and quiet!! When we talk about friendship we also talk about how to be respectful of others!
This book is so fun to read, it says what would be rude first (which the children think is hilarious), then how to fix it by being polite and courteous!
The children laugh at this book because Froggy is falling in love. But in the end the valentine is actually for his mother. This is a great time to talk about saving kisses for JUST family! This is definitley a fun book!

HAPPY READING!!