Product Overview
This monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 6 activities: two each in reading, writing, and math
- A note about the theme and the skills it builds
- Picture book suggestions
- Skill-specific information for the teaching adult
- A planning box for each activity
- Note pages for planning and reflection
About the Books
Woodland Dreams
In Woodland Dreams, young readers say goodnight to beloved woodland animals as they prepare to sleep.This sweet bedtime book is at once a picture book and a lullaby, pairing familiar bedtime routines with nonfiction elements.Little ones will follow along as each animal returns to their warm and cozy woodland home.• Each adorable animal has their...
William Wakes Up
William and his animal friends have had the whole winter to nap. Now it's time for them to wake up and welcome a very special guest. There's lots to do to get ready, from scrubbing the floors to decorating the house to baking a tasty treat. But it's so hard to leave a cozy bed. . . . Will everyone get up in time to do their part? This book's...
Owl Moon
Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.But there is no answer.Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope....
The Water Hole
The Water Hole is a fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and art book. Graeme Base takes the reader on a journey of discovery, from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of the Australian outback.
The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale
In Jan Brett's wintertime favorite The Mitten, a Ukrainian boy named Nicki wants his grandmother Baba to knit snow-white mittens for him. She warns her grandson that a white mitten will be hard to find if he loses it in the snow, but of course he promptly does just that! What happens next is the surprising part, as a mole takes refuge in the...
Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble, and elephants wallow. Fact sidebars support the poems about the animals and their environment. Imaginative illustrations from Anna Wadham complete this delightful collection.
Crowbar: The Smartest Bird in the World
A funny and amazing story based on a real-life crow from renowned naturalist and Newbery Medal-winning author Jean Craighead George, with illustrations from long-time collaborator Wendell Minor. Twig George and T. Luke George have provided up-to-date research for this stunning picture book by their mother. A young boy finds a baby crow...
Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Real friendship knows no bounds, and it's not only humans who need it. Unlikely Friendships tells one story after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways and thrive on the warmth, closeness, and trust that come with being true friends.Imagine a predator cuddling its prey. Or a bird befriending a...
Who Would Win Series Total 26 Books Set
Which wild animals would win a deadly fight? Find out in this awesome set of 25 books from the wildly popular Who Would Win Books Series! This set features a variety of over 100 new birds, dinosaurs, insects, and mammals! Students and young readers explore the facts and characteristics between two wild animals. Facts and Photos provide a...
Wild City: Meet the Animals Who Share Our City Spaces
Take an unforgettable tour around the world to meet the creatures that share our city spaces―from bears to bats, penguins to opossums―and learn about how they have adapted and thrived in this gorgeously illustrated gift book written by award-winning natural history journalist Ben Hoare.Wild City travels the globe, exploring how animals have...
Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals
Renowned picture book creators Nicola Davies and Petr Horácek team up for a captivating first look at animals around the world.Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods — animals are everywhere. In a remarkable collection of poems, children’s author Nicola Davies shares keen...
Nose Knows: Wild Ways Animals Smell the World
Take a fresh look at the world from an animal’s perspective. In this fun flap-filled book, you’ll learn how smell plays a key role in the lives of animals and shapes their behavior and relationships. Each flap reveals the hidden side to each environment only perceptible through smell. Watch a polar bear track its prey beneath the ice, join a...
Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica
Award-winning nature writer Mary Batten uncovers the climate change mysteries of our planet’s coldest, most extreme environment—Antarctica. Did you know that Antarctica could be the key to long-standing questions about the Earth and climate change? Though it seems very far away from us at the bottom of the world, this frozen continent affects...
How to Draw All the Animals: for Kids
Fun 5-minute drawing lessons for kids—great for young artists, birthday gifts, homeschool art lessons, and elementary art classes!Perfect for budding artists and kids who have never drawn before, this beginner drawing book will teach your kid how to draw their favorite animals in no time! Author and professional artist Alli Koch's kid friendly,...
Homes in the Wild: Where Baby Animals and Their Parents Live
As informative as it is lovely, Homes in the Wild is an adorable nonfiction picture book from author/illustrator Lita Judge that shows that wild creatures―from beavers to bobcats, and sloths to squirrels―aren't so different from us after all.Just like us, every baby animal has a home. Some live in complex burrows deep underground, others in...
Great Migrations: Official Companion to the National Geographic Channel Global Television Event
At a riverbank in Africa's Serengeti, thousands of migrating wildebeest try desperately to cross as terrifying crocs feast on the galloping herds--which must attempt the river for a chance at survival. In the Falkland Islands, the albatross--king of migrations--journeys thousands of miles to nest despite the deadly cara cara, a predatory raptor....
Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World
Ever wonder what your cat is watching through the window? Or how having eyes on the sides of its head changes the world for a horse? And what would life be like seeing in 5 colors instead of only 3? Children see exactly how animals view the world around them in this innovative and exciting lift-the-flap book. After a whirlwind tour of how...
A Nest is Noisy
"Fans will rejoice at the first sight of A Nest Is Noisy," promises School Library Journal, and they're right. From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, A Butterfly Is Patient, A Rock Is Lively, and A Beetle Is Shy comes this gorgeous and informative look at the fascinating world of nests, from those of tiny bee...
Born to Be Wild: How Baby Animals Survive and Thrive
Born to Be Wild explores the vast complexities of growing up in the animal kingdom, where everything feels like new. This book goes where no other has to delve into the countless ways baby animals survive in the wild. Alongside gorgeous photographs of baby bears, lions and tigers, marsupials, birds, and marine mammals, it charts the stages from...
