Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. Read this for more information. If you are a teacher, you have an important role in the fight against racism. Take a look at your curriculum, toys, and books in your classroom. Are they inclusive? What are they teaching? Or what are they omitting? Sometimes it's not what's inside of a book, but what's missing altogether. Today I'm sharing with you my suggestions for multicultural books for early childhood classrooms. With the recent … [Read more...]
Best Winter Books for Kids
Winter is a wonderful time to snuggle together and read books! I know we spend more time inside during the winter and I also notice we spend more time reading! I've compiled a list of my favorite winter books for kids and I hope you'll read them, too! The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino and Jon Nelson This book has so many fascinating facts! It's a nonfiction book that has great diagrams for helping kids understand the science behind snowflakes. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack … [Read more...]
Christmas Book Countdown
This post contains affiliate links. See my disclosure for more details. I love the Christmas season! While there are so many things to do this time of year, we still make it a reading a priority. Today I'm sharing with you a FUN way to countdown to Christmas with books! To set this up, I gather our Christmas books and check out books from the library. Then I wrap them up with paper from the Dollar Store. I place them in no particular order by the tree for the kids to see. My … [Read more...]
Fall Picture Books for Preschoolers
I love fall! It's a beautiful season with changing trees, crisp cool air, beautiful pumpkins and gourds, and so much more. My favorite thing is all the color that fall brings. We live in a place where the trees are just gorgeous this time of year. It is my absolute favorite time of the year! A wonderful way to teach children about fall is through picture books. These picture books teach so many science concepts through stories or fun facts. I think it's great for children all over the world … [Read more...]
10 Halloween Children’s Books
My boys and I visit the library once a week. They absolutely LOVE spending time there. We spend lots of time reading at home and I love that they enjoy reading books. Since Halloween is coming up at the end of this week, I thought I would share some of our favorite Halloween books! This post contains affiliate links. Do Not Build a Frankenstein! by Neil Numberman I love this book and so do my kids...we've read it at least twenty times since getting it from the library last … [Read more...]