Category Archives: Favorite Children’s Books

“Honeybees and Flowers” by Lola M. Schaefer I use this book with Kindergarten to show up close, colorful photos of the bees. The text introduces to the basics of bees – collecting nectar and pollen and life in the hive.   “Time for Kids Science Scoops: Bees!” by Elizabeth Winchester The photos in this bookContinue reading “Book Reviews: Honeybees”

“Living and Nonliving” by Carol Lindeen This book focuses on characteristics of living things – Living things breathe, eat, grow, and move. It has great photos of plants and animals that kids are familiar with.   “My World of Science: Living and Nonliving” by Angela Royston (2.8 AR) This book looks at many characteristics ofContinue reading “Book Reviews: Living and Non-Living”

Lettuce Grows on the Ground is a very informative book about how lettuce grows. It covers the academic standards of the plant parts, the plant life cycle, as well as reviews varieties of lettuce and discusses how it grows. It is part of a series that includes Carrots Grow Underground, Tomatoes Grow on a Vine,Continue reading “Book Reviews: Lettuce”

Scary Creatures of the Soil is just one in a series of “Scary Creature” books. The kids loved looking through this one on Halloween and reviewing what we’ve learned in past lessons about soil. There are chapters about beetles burying their dead, spiders ambushing their prey, and everyone’s favorite – “What Feeds Poop to itsContinue reading “Book Reviews: Soil”

For an introduction to compost, I have three favorite books – “Compost Stew,” “Composting: Nature’s Recyclers,” and “Diary of a Worm.” For classroom activities around compost, my favorite is “Worms Eat Our Garbage.”   “Compost Stew” is a fun book to read because of it’s rhythm and rhyme and it’s repetitive chorus “Just add toContinue reading “Book Reviews: Compost”

You come to fetch me from my work to-night When supper’s on the table, and we’ll see If I can leave off burying the white Soft petals fallen from the apple tree. (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea); And go along with you ere youContinue reading “A Robert Frost Poem: “Putting in the Seed””