lpotts17

NP

Pre K-5

This is a poem story about winter.  This story tells all about winter and what the students can expect to occur during winter.  I would do a lesson on differences.  Snowflakes are all different just like people are.  The students would fold paper and cut shapes out and when it was unfolded it would have a design.  Each student's design/snowflake would be different just like they all are.  The students will see that they all have individual snowflakes that are similar in some ways and different in others.  They can apply this to their classmates.  Some of them will be more similar or different.

4 Stars

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3-5

This book is about a little boy who moves to a poorer part of town.  He does not have any friends at school and has no one to talk to.  He does not have anywhere to play until he discovers an old chalk factory.  The little boy begins to draw flowers and designs on the sides of the building and he grows through his art.  I would like to use this story to allow the students to make new friends.  I would place pieces of paper at each student's desk.  They would go around and write one nice comment on each student's paper.  The students would have these to look at on a bad day.  They would all feel loved and accepted by their peers.

5 Stars

260L

Pre K-2

This book is about a little boy who plants a pumpkin seed.  He waits for it to grow and then he carves it.  He makes sure to save seeds for next year.  I would love to use this book to discuss the life cycle during Halloween time.  I would read the book and discuss the life cycle of plants and their similarities to life cycles of animals.  I would also let the kids decorate their own pumpkin.

3 Stars

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Pre K-2

This story is about the weather and changes that happen during springtime.  It includes all the rain and the things that come after the rain.  I would love to use this lesson in my classroom.  I would have the students act out all of the events in the story; such as, splashing in the rain.  As we read the students would act out previously decided actions.  This movement would help them to remember what things go along with springtime.

4 Stars

810L

Pre K-5

This book tells children about the logistics of garbage and where it goes.  I would use this book around Earth day and explain to the students the importance of keeping our world clean.  I would take my students outside and we would clean the playground with gloves and garbage bags.

4 Stars

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1-5

This book is about a young boy who stays awake after his parents go to bed.  He goes on adventures in his house.  This book is poetry based.  It does not always rhyme, but it would be a good way to introduce poetry.  I would use this book to teach that poetry does not always have to rhyme completely.  I would also allow my students to write a free-verse poem at the end and hang them in the hallway.

5 Stars

AD630L

Pre K-K

This story is about a storm that comes and a family must go into the storm cellar.  When they come out some 4 legged friends are in the house.  I would use this story to teach the children about storms.  I would have them tell about a storm that they can remember and discuss safety tips for if a tornado or storm ever came near them.

5 stars

400L

Pre K-5

3 children's mother agrees to buy them cupcakes for after dinner.  But, before dinner one of the cupcakes goes missing.  The 3 children must find the missing cupcake before anyone can eat their dessert.  I would use this book to help the children learn how to be "detectives".  The students would have to use their reasoning to figure out what they think happened to the missing cupcake.

3 Stars

AD290L

K-2

Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells the class that she will choose a name by the following week. Her new classmates are fascinated by this no-name girl and decide to help out by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from. On the day of her name choosing, the name jar has mysteriously disappeared. Encouraged by her new friends, Unhei chooses her own Korean name.  I would love to use this in my classroom to encourage inclusion.  People from different cultures are interesting and not weird.  We should want to get to know them and their culture to better understand them.

5 Stars 

AD560L

Pre K-5

How full is your bucket is about a little boy who needs to learn how to be nice to his sister.  His grandpa tells him that everyone has a bucket.  Our buckets get filled when people are nice to us or give us compliments.  Our buckets empty as people are mean or hurtful. I would use this in my classroom at the beginning of the year to teach the students that their actions have consequences.  The students should know that when they are nice, they are filling a bucket.  When they are mean, they are emptying a bucket.

5 stars

Pre K-K

This book is about how a caterpillar forms into a butterfly.  I would use this story for a science lesson on the life cycle.  The students would be able to see the way that butterflies form.  I would also use this for art.  The students could create their own caterpillars out of foam balls and pipe cleaners.

4 stars

AD360L

Pre K-K

Goodnight Moon is about a young rabbit who wants to tell everything goodnight before he goes to bed.  He travels a long way to tell the moon goodnight.  I would love to use this book as an introduction to poetry.  The book has many rhyming words and would be easy for students to relate to.

4 stars

BR

Pre K-5

No, David!, is a very simple book about a young boy who is constantly being told no.  He does a different thing on every page to get told no about.  But at the end of the book he is assured by his mother that she still loves him.  I would use this book at the beginning of the year.  Children will indefinitely get in trouble, but as their teacher I will always love them.  It will be a pleasant and funny reminder that teachers must reprimand and correct their students because they care.

4 stars

BR

K-2

This story tells about different animals that hatch from different types of eggs.  I would love to use this in a lesson about animals.  If resources allowed, I would like to have an incubator in my classroom with different types of eggs.  When the eggs hatched we would see if our predictions were right.  We would also discuss that the outside does not define what is inside the egg.  Just like with people.  You can not judge who a person is by the way that they look.

 3 stars

Pre k - 2

A Bad Case of Stripes is about a little girl who is not like the rest of the students in her class.  She loves lima beans but does not eat them because the rest of her friends do not like them.  Camilla wants to blend in with the rest of the students, but she can't because she begins to change colors.  Camilla eventually realizes that she does not have to be like the rest of the kids in her class.  She only needs to be herself.   I would use this in my classroom to teach cause and effect.  Because Camilla wanted to fit in and did not eat her lima beans, she got sick and turned colors.  It could also be used to teach respect and acceptance of the differences of others.

5 stars

AD940L

Pre k - 2

The Relatives Came is about a family who takes a trip across the country to visit with family.  The book describes the things that the family does during their trip and how the family reacts when they get there.  I would use this book in my classroom for text-to-self connections.  I would teach my students that they can take the information in the books that they read and connect it to their own lives to gain understanding.

5 stars