Here are more books I read to the kids during storytime...
7. Pig Picnic by Patricia Hubbell
This is a quick read with colorful illustrations. It's a story on sharing.
8. The ABC Mystery by Doug Cushman
This was a very enjoyable book as we learned our letters and solved a mystery! Thumbs up from all the kids. :) I would get this for my own library.
9. Everybody Needs A Rock by Byrd Baylor
I read this to kick off our science lessons on rocks. I love this book -- great for social/emotional learning, too. Half of the kids liked it, while the other half did not. The kids couldn't understand some of the illustrations and asked why the drawings looked like that. I 'think' because they are used to cartoon-like illustrations that this type of illustration threw them off. Great message though. I brought two of my rocks from home to share with them. They felt the textures (one was smooth and the other was rough). They also smelled the rocks as one of the rules from this rock book was to smell the rocks. :) In the end I smelled my rocks and told the kids they smelled like kindergarteners!!! I got smiles, laughs, and giggles. ;)
10. Rocks by Brenda Parkes
This book is from our science rock kit. It was a great book to introduce rocks to our students.
11. Today is Monday by Eric Carle
I read this book to the kids during calendar time after we sang the Days of the Week song by the Addams Family. Once they saw the chicken in this book they became very animated. ;) This book is a must have in every kindergarten classroom!
