The Cat In The Hat Comes Back is another classic book by Dr. Seuss. This is a great story to start the year because it is a funny story that talks about snow and reviews all the letters of the alphabet. The Cat In The Hat always causes a lot of trouble, but in the end, he always cleans up the mess he makes. Ask your child what the cat has hidden inside his hat!
Sneezy the Snowman is a new book that caught my attention because he has a beautiful carrot nose. The class has talked a lot about how a carrot is a classic way to give a snowman a nose. This story reinforces what the students learned about melting snow this week and that information helped them predict what would happen next (for example, when Sneezy drank hot chocolate, what do you think will happen? Why?) I also overheard, a few times, a student saying to a child that just sneezed, "You're just like Sneezy the Snowman!"
The Snowy Day is another one of my favourite stories. Written in 1962, it tells the story of Peter as he discovers all the different activities that can be done outside in the snow. The classes recalled all the things that Peter did (for example, making patterns with his boots) and we were lucky enough to try out all of them with the snow outside. They could all accurately predict what was going to happen when Peter put a snowball in his pocket to "save for later". A beautiful, sublime story.
Stranger In The Woods was a great story for the class this week because it was a good connection to The Snowman poem the children learned. Students need lots of opportunities to make connections and this story, with the snowman and his carrot nose, provided lots of ways to do this. (For example, in the story a deer eats the carrot and in the poem a bunny does.) The children also liked this book because of the cool, lenticular photo on the front cover. The lenticular photo blends two photos from the book together so that when it is moved from left to right, the picture changes.
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