Exploring Turtles with Usborne Books

This week we are jumping into our turtle theme with both feet. Bee is crazy excited and Sweets likes anything and everything that he does. Needless to say the house is bubbling with excitement. I have chosen some activities and many books that I think they will love and keep their interest. Follow us on instagram to see our daily activities, read below for our book list.

No theme is complete without excellent books to answer questions and stir up more curiosity. These are some of the amazing books that we are using in our study.

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Back to School with Usborne Books

Back to School is always an exciting time of the year.

Whether your child is starting a new grade or starting school for the first time there are lots of wonderful things to look forward to. All of these new changes happen at once which is not an  easy transitiion especially if your child doesn’t know what to expect.

I found some amazing books to ease your kids into attending school, getting them excited to return, books that will inspire them to ask questions and dig a little bit deeper. Half the battle of getting your child to read is to find books that they are truly interested in. Below I have shared a bit of everything meaning there is something for everyone.

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Love Is All Around Canada Book Review

When I first received this book I thought it would be about Canada and how much we love our beautiful country. One read through and I quickly determined it was about Canadians. As a whole we are wonderful amazing people who open our hearts and homes to many.

“Love’s all around, if you just pay attention, in people and places too many to mention. Go look at the park, on the street, at the mall. You’ll see love all over. It’s big and it’s small!”

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Easter Book List

Easter is one of my favorite holidays. Mostly because of all the wonderful traditions and memories we have made over the years. We always get together with one of my Aunts and her family which is a blast. They are awesome!

One of our traditions has been to have the Easter Bunny bring a new Easter Book to the kids in their baskets. Well, its a nice idea but we have so many Easter books and the rest of the holidays (minus Christmas) are lacking. Ooops.

At least the intentions were good and now I have this incredible list to share with you.

Somebunny Loves You

When I first picked up this book I thought for sure it was going to be goofy pictures that my kids would giggle at for days. I was so surprised when I opened it up. This book is filled with adorable pictures and poems. Well, fun little poems and sing song poems. Many board books have bright colors and this is so exception. The colors are beautiful. Atypical to board books this one has incredible vocabulary and descriptions on every page. It is fun to read as an adult and my kids were captivated from the baby to my four year old.

“Wherever you go,

whatever you do,

always remember:

somebunny loves you!”

Easter Is Here

Little People puts out some excellent books. On our shelves we have quite a collection of their board books. Easter is here is still a board book but it is geared towards older toddlers. It has a ton of flaps in it and awesome lists for searching and find. Some pages have you hunting for colors, objects, bunnies, baskets and even an egg hunt! The colors are bright and vivid and the flaps are quite durable even when reading with energetic tots.

Happy Easter Corduroy

Join Corduroy and his friends as they die eggs, hunt for hidden Easter eggs and have a picnic. This is a wonderful choice for a first Easter Book.

Egg

My babies have always loved this book. It is bright, colorful and filed with lots of different animals. All the animals take their turn finding eggs until the very end when the chicks hatch into baby chicks.

The Littlest Bunny in Canada: An Easter Adventure

Flop is such a cute bunny owned by two siblings. To their surprise they brought the Easter Bunny home with them. Flop sure is a busy bunny. Once the kids are in bed he gets to work traveling coast to coast hiding eggs and baskets. I first read this book to myself and enjoyed it. It was a nice read. At the end there is an egg hunt that goes though the book. What a great idea! When I read the book with my kids I didn’t even have to mention the egg hunt before they were already counting eggs as they found them. The eggs have numbers on them too which is an excellent way to sneak in number recognition.

The Great Easter Race

Sesame Street is always a classic. In this tale there was a mighty race between characters. Most of them got distracted along the way but once the race was finished they found the best prize. It was a cute story and like a sesame street books the drawings are adorable.

How to Catch the Easter Bunny

When I first read this book I immediately noticed that it contained many great rhymes and  intellectual words. We are just getting into learning how to read so the rhymes are extra appealing at the moment. E. B., as he is known, is quick and kinda spunky. He might just be my favorite Easter bunny character. The Easter bunny finds himself in a couple of predicaments in which he must escape. He uses his lucky rabbit feet and always escapes. This books would be especially wonderful for a writing prompt, discussion or even the beginning  of many experiments. Ask your child how they would catch the Easter Bunny and maybe try some of them out. You might be surprised by what they come up with.

The Great Easter Egg Hunt

What a fun book! The Great Easter Egg Hunt is actually a puzzle book filled with mazes, word searches and riddles. The majority of puzzles are probably best for age 5+. My little’s (4 and under) didn’t grasp most of the puzzles but enjoyed the story line and chasing the bunny through the book. Quite a few pages are too busy for my tastes but it was an enjoyable read.

The Night Before Easter

I love when authors can take a classic story like “The Night Before Christmas,” and adapt it to tell another tale. Often it goes terribly wrong but not this time. It adorable and so much fun. This is a book that you can read a couple times a day and still enjoy it. Be careful though, if your not you might have visions jellybeans dancing in your head.

Peter Cottontail

When I was a little girl I received a Rabbit stuffed animal. I don’t remember receiving it but I cherished it. That bunny looked exactly like Peter Cottontail. To this day when I think of the Easter Bunny, I imagine a bunny with a vest and those teeny tiny glasses. This book has similarities to “The Grinch.” There is a wolf that does not want he bunnies to celebrate Easter. He schemes up a plan to get rid of the Easter eggs, preventing Easter fun. Of course this didn’t foil Easter. They all had a wonderful Easter party then ended up on a hunt for the eggs that Willy Wolf hid. This book will always be in our collection. Great illustrations, awesome message and it leads right into a fun egg hunt.

The Best Easter Eggs Ever

The Easter Bunny works so hard every year and in this story he has three adorable helpers assist him in decorating the eggs. The little bunnies all found inspiration in different places. The only thing that I didn’t like was that each bunny received a medal for their work. I don’t have a problem with the Easter Bunny loving all of the designs, just the medals. I know I am just being nit picky but I don’t love that they included that line. Other than that I really enjoyed the book. My kids also enjoyed the book and have been searching for their own inspirations for when we decorate eggs this weekend.

I hope you enjoyed reading about some of our Easter Books. Maybe you found one or two more to add to your collection this year.

Happy Easter from my home to yours!

 

Arctic Book List for your Little Readers

Baby, it is cold outside!

We are under lots of snow which was perfect for our week long study of the Arctic! We gathered up lots of great books and cuddled under a pile of blankets. Reading and snuggling is one of my favorite activities to do with my little’s.

Good books open up the doors of curiosity and exploration. Here are the books that we used during our Arctic study.

Arctic Book List

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Letter Book List

Every house, with kids, needs Alphabet books. We have quite a few on our shelves year round but we ventured to the library for some new reads. Some were awesome and others were not impressive. I decided to include my thoughts on all of the books we read.

Alphabet Week Book List

What are your must haves when it comes to ABC books?

I love rhyming, great illustrations, with a mix of uncommon and common words. Most books don’t have all of my favorite qualifiers in them but that’s why I read lots and lots of books. We love the variety.

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Desert Book List

There is something to be said about books. Words really can transport you anywhere that you wish to go. Its amazing how powerful ink can be. I love it!

This week we journeyed to the heat of the desert while cuddling on the couch with a fan. That’s my favorite way to travel to the desert.

Desert Habitat Week Book List

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Fall Book List for Babies, Toddlers and PreK

Fall Book List

Nearly every morning my littles crawl into my bed with a stack of books. Each. Yes, they have to have their own stacks. I don’t mind many books in a row when the books are good. I definitely don’t want to read less than great books over and over again. In a row or not.

Instead of sending you on a wild book chase to the library I am going to share some our favorites that we read for our fall unit. I will start by sharing board books then some awesome picture books!

Fall Book List for Babies, Toddlers and PreK

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