Yesterday I shared this post with my kindergarten families, on my Hilltop Kindergarten blog. This is a book you need to run out and buy right now! It’s simply perfect, so I had to share this post on my Literacy Blog too. Here it is: Is it possible to be in love with a book?
Up, Down, and Around is a super cute book by Katherine Ayres. It has bright, beautiful illustrations and minimal text. It’s the perfect book for young readers! The kids in my classroom saw me take this book off of the garden shelf. They immediately knew that the book was about gardens. We spent quite a
Last week, I shared a bubble/poetry writing lesson on my Hilltop Kindergarten Blog. I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love teaching young writers! To read the full lesson, click here. We read this book before our bubble blowing experience, which LOVE! I found this picture on Pinterest. When I clicked the
I love the fact that my youngest pulls her favorite cookbook off the shelf and starts making side dishes. We picked up this cookbook on our trip to Disneyland, last year. My daughter has pulled it off the shelf a few times and made dinner for the family, or a quick side dish. A few
Last night, I was home alone (ahhhh, quiet time) just listening to the pounding rain outside. We have a lot of storms in the Pacific Northwest, but I don’t think anyone had expected it to rain quite that hard. That was about the time I wrote last night’s post about my favorite rainy day books.