Today’s post is brought to you by CKA Board Member and former kindergarten teacher extraordinaire, Helen Faul, who shares with us these great ideas to get your year started right.
“Here is my favorite book to begin the school year.
The pictures are very colorful and eye catching and the print is large. It is a good book to illustrate the difference between words and pictures. I like to read it several times and the put the music on with Louis Armstrong singing. After the children are very familiar with the book. We take a walk around the school yard and discuss “What a Wonderful School” The children draw pictures and dictate words to go with the pictures.
Another good book to use with the class but more complicated is Toni Morrison’s The Big Box. It is about three children who have difficulty with rules and the parents create a world inside a box for them. In the end the children learn that they can handle their freedom.
Last one for you is L is for Loving by Ken Wilson Max. It is about different feelings and emotions and us an ABC book. The pictures are childlike and colorful. They help express feelings. I would spread the reading of this book over a couple of weeks and we would talk about the feeling of the day and think of situations when we feel the way described. Later in the year I would use it as an ABC book. This book is published by Hyperion Books for Children.”
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