Clifford's First Valentine's Day is a great book to read to kindergarten students because most already know the lovable Clifford character. In this simple story, the concept of sending Valentine cards is discussed as Clifford has an adventure at the post office (he gets lost). This is a good story to talk about the feelings of the main character during different parts of the story and to discuss the odd kinds of things that can happen in a story. That is, in a story, there can be a bright red dog the size of an elephant, but that can't happen in real life.
100 Days of School is the perfect book for the 100th day of school. It talks about 100 in many different ways (many math concepts are covered) and reinforces how special this landmark day is in the life of kindergarten students.
100 Hungry Ants is a good book to reinforce the concept of 100 during our 100th day week . The ants are trying to get to a picnic before the food is all gone. They spend so much time rearranging themselves that the picnic is over before they get there. The ending, in my opinion, is a bit weak. However, the class took the opportunity to discuss different ways for the book to end.
Rumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale that illustrates the idea of a "magic" figure in some fairy tales. In this story, it is a little man that is able to spin straw into gold. There are complicated lessons in the story, but the students talked about what it means to be greedy and how to be careful what you promise to someone! The class is also very interested in the number of letters in children's names, so the 15 letters in Rumpelstiltskin was quite amazing to them!
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