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...]
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...]
10 Picture Books Every Child Should Read
Today I'm sharing with you 10 picture books I think every child should read. I'm sure I could share more than 10 books, but these are 10 of our favorite books. It was hard to narrow it down! 1. Love You Forever- a very sweet story about a parent's unconditional love 2. Goodnight Moon- a classic bedtime story that any child will enjoy 3. Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?- a fun, patterned book that toddlers love 4. The Little Engine that Could- a great story about not giving … [Read more...]
Letter ‘P’ and Pumpkin Books
We're adding to our alphabet book with the letter 'P'. We first painted the pumpkin seeds orange from the pumpkin we explored last week and glued them inside the letter 'P'. Before glueing them down, we counted them and put them into groups of ten. Troy only lasted to 3 groups of ten, but it was still good counting practice. Here's the letter 'P'! And here are 3 books that we've been reading about pumpkins. This book is cute with colorful pictures. It shows how the pumpkin starts out as a seed … [Read more...]