Stars, Moon, Mother's Day and Numbers and Scissors

Putting together another lesson!
This one is based on learning about stars and the moon followed by a Mother's Day lesson.
Books featured are:
No Time for Mother's Day by Laura Anderson (JE AND)
Moondance by Frank Asch (JE ASC)
Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch (JE ASC)
The Mother's Day Mice by Eve Bunting (JE BUN)
Biscuit Loves Mother's Day by Alyssa Capucilli (JE CAP)
Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle (JE CAR)
Mother's Day Surprise by Stephen Krensky (JE KRE)
Stars by Mary Lyn Ray (JE RAY)
Mother's Day by Anne Rockwell (JE ROC)
Owl Moon (JE YOL)

Curious George and the Rocket - (BB CUR)

What is the Moon - Chris Arvetis (J 523.3 A795w)
If You Decide to Go to the Moon - Faith McNulty (J 629.45 M169i)

Also sent out for two Oliver Jeffers books - The Way Back Home and How To Catch a Star

Earth Day/Recycle/Environment/Seeds Week

I didn't want to do a complete Earth Day theme so I kind of spread it out that way I could do a variety of activities over a few weeks.

Here are the books I'm using:

Up, Down and Around - Katherine Ayres (JE AYR)
The Tiny Seed - Eric Carle (J 582 C278t)
The Whole Green World - Tony Johnston (JE JOH)
Stuff! Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Steven Kroll (JE KRO)

I Stink! - Kate McMullan (JE MCM)

The Lorax - Dr. Seuss (JE SEU)

10 Things I can do to help my world - Melanie Walsh (JE WAL)

Zinnia's Flower Garden - Monica Wellington (J 635 W452z)
Gabby and Grandma Go Green - Monica Wellington (JE WEL)
The Dumpster Diver - Janet Wong (JE WON)

Trashy Town - Andrea Zimmerman (JE ZIM)

I plan on talking about what we recycle and what we throw away. Hopefully plant something. Go on a walk and talk about what we see. Pick up litter or do something to save the planet. Do an Earth craft. Do a reuse material craft.

Books in addition to theme books
Alphabet Under Construction - Denise Fleming (JE FLE)

Good Night Gorilla - Peggy Rathmann (JE RAT)

Spring Time!

We have still been doing crafts and books just haven't posted... we just finished Olympics and Spring part I. 

Spring II is most based on flowers and weather. We are also starting an early reader series (testing the waters), sampling some read aloud books and others on our giant list for March-April library trips. Here is the list thus far: (if they have a JE... by it that means I've searched for it at our library if not our library does not have it but hopefully yours does!)

Spring Week
The Curious Garden - Peter Brown JE BRO

And Then It’s Spring - Julie Fogliano JE FOG

Green - Laura Seeger - JE SEE
999 Frogs Wake up - Ken Kimura
Inch by Inch - Leo Lioni JE LIO
The Rain Came Down - David Shannon
Spring is Here - Will Hillenbrand JE HIL
Old Bear - Kevin Henkes JE HEN
When Blue Met Egg - Lindsay Ward
Happy Easter - Liesbet Slegers
Piggy Bunny - Jeremy Tankard
The Easter Bunny’s Assistant - Jan Thomas
Duck & Goose, here comes the Easter bunny! - BB HIL

Beginner Readers
Brownie & Pearl series - Cynthia Rylant - JE RYL

Puppy Mudge series - Cynthia Rylant - ER JE RYL

Read Aloud Books
If you hold a seed - Elly MacKay
Happy Harrys Cafe - Michael Rosen
Do Unto Otters - Laurie Keller

Warning Do not open this book - Adam Lehrhaupt
What Happens When - Delphine Chedru
Oh No, George! - Chris Haughton
Fortunately - Remy Charlip
Fandango Stew - David Davis
Old Dog - Jeanne Willis
It’s a Little Book - Lane Smith
Boing - Sean Taylor
I Lost my Bear - Jules Feiffer
Too Busy Marco - Roz Chast
The Quiet Book - Deborah Underwood

Sneaky Sheep - Chris Monroe
Any book by Mo Willems
Harold and the Purple Crayon - by Crockett Johnson 
Horrible Harry goes Cuckoo by Suzy Kline
The frogs and toads all sang by Arnold Lobel
Someday by Alison McGhee 

It’s Spring by Linda Glaser
Flowers and Showers: A Spring Counting Book by Rebecca Fjelland Davis
When Will It Be Spring by Catherine Walters JE WAL
Everything Spring by Jill Esbaum
Poppleton in Spring by Cynthia Rylant - ER JE RYL
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss JE KRA c.1
Mouse’s First Spring by Lauren Thompson - JE THO
Splish, Splash, Spring by Jan Carr
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw - JE SHA

The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola - J 551.5 D419c c.1

Book list sites
http://chasingsupermom.com/2013/03/40-books-about-spring/
http://www.modernparentsmessykids.com/2011/08/book-week-how-to-find-great-kid-books.html
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/over-20-fabulous-mustread-book-154667?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+apartmenttherapy%2Fohdeedoh+%28Ohdeedoh%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner