Monday, October 12, 2009

What We Read Week 5 & 6

Read Alouds
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
Llama Who Had No Pajama - Hoberman (some cute poems / one evolutionary one)

Math
Let's Fly A Kite - Stuart Murphy (Math Start -symmetry)
Plenty of Petals - Dahl (Counting by 10's)
*Patterns in Nature - Jennifer Roy (excellent book on patterns!)

History/Social Studies
*The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau - Dan Yaccarino (Biography)
An Elephant in the Backyard - Richard Sobol (culture)
Johnny Appleseed - Aliki (biography)
*Johnny Appleseed - Gini Holland

Science
Focus: Fall and Plants/seeds
Animals in the Fall - Marha Rustad
Fall - Ron Hirschi
The Bee - Sabrina Crewe
*Actual Size- Steve Jenkins (animals - loved reading after the zoo)
Apple Harvest - Calvine Harris
This is Your Garden - Maggie Smith
*Seeds, Seeds, Seeds - Nancy Wallace (great book and project ideas)
The Reason for a Flower - Heller
*From Seed to Pumpkin - W. Pfeffer (Read and Find Out About Science)
Friends and Flowers - Gunderson

* Our favorites from the week

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