You know you’re going to be reading them over and over (and over!), so you’d do well to make sure they’re fairly enjoyable to read, right? Everybody’s taste varies, but these are our very favorite board books to read aloud with toddlers- the ones we never tire of. Learn more about reading aloud board books.
Here are 9 books that get kids writing in writers workshop. These mentor text books will help your students find ideas for their narrative stories.
Journey by Aaron Becker follows a girl into a magical city, who defeats an evil emperor to free a majestic bird. Promotes perseverance, and problem-solving.
A book I found in Traverse City. Author/illustrator is from South Korea. Communion between child and nature.
Read our review of Flotsam at BooksForTopics - the best books for children by age and topic.
Teaching Blog Addict is hosting a Summer Workshop called Yummy Learning Activities (teaching with food) . Here is an activity that I did la...
Wordless picture books can be used at almost any grade level. Here are some of the best wordless picture books for your classroom library.
For many years, teachers have been teaching students that author's purpose is "easy as PIE." But this approach totally misses the mark.
We talk a lot about using picture books in our teaching. I am wondering though if you are using wordless picture books in your lessons. If...
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Roy Doty's "Wordless Workshop" illustrated crowdsourced DIY solutions for 60 years
Brand storytelling is an important part of building your corporate and product brands. Learn how you can do it here.
Using read alouds to teach kindness is a great activity for morning meeting or to add SEL in your day. Read for 10 favorites!
This photo was taken by a child in Haiti at a View Finder Workshop. View Finder was created to help disadvantaged children discover self-expression, self-confidence and self-worth through photography. You can read my post about View Finder on pplkind.com. Linking up with Wordless Wednesday Wordless Wednesday @ The Jenny Evolution
I am running a workshop this Saturday as part of the very exciting Children's Book Fair at Parasol Unit. My workshop is on Saturday from 11-1pm. We will be making wordless picture books inspired by my Hato Press books In the City and In the Garden. If you would like to join you can book tickets here: http://parasol-unit.org/book-making-workshop-with-emily-rand You will also be able to buy my books from the Hato Press stand. Hope to see you there!
We are still telling stories with the written word for The Documented Life Project 2015 December theme. Our art challenge this week is: u...
Learn how to make the wordless book, wordless bracelet. Download teaching notes, bookmarks, and detailed instructions.
Wordless Wednesday is supposed to be about posting a photo(s) without any words. But, I'm a rule breaker, so here are a few words: 1...
The kids and I made a Wordless Lapbook, using most of our ideas from Just Call Me Jamin but we changed it up a little bit, added a few things, and gave it our own twist! It's a pretty simple one... Here's the inside view. I arranged the mini color books so they'd form the shape of a cross (obviously you can see that there) Our booklets are made like Only a Boy blog (minus the drawn pictures) but the text is the same as Jamin's. And we added the little poem from Only a Boy but we placed it in the middle of the cross. Download the printables for the color booklets HERE. Then we added the ABC's of salvation (download HERE), formatting it more like Jamin's. If you flip up the text part, you can read the Bible verse that goes with it. (the only thing I don't like is that this ABC book is on the fold of the lapbook, and that's a little bit awkward when folding) We included the lyrics to our Gospel Fuzzies song (top left) and the GROW mini book (bottom right). Both printables can be found HERE. The cross picture in the top right is just a coloring page found HERE I printed smaller and had Eli color. The back of our lapbook folder is a color by number, glued onto construction paper just to add more color. And honestly, we don't have anything on the front cover of our folder, but you can put whatever you want. This was a pretty simple lapbook, didn't take much time to prepare it. (some lapbooks can really take forever and ton of printing and cutting!!) Then as a bonus activity, the kids and I made these Gospel Cookies (in a jar), adapted from these super cute Girlfriend Cookies. Instead of part M&Ms and and part chocolate chip, we used all M&Ms using the colors of wordless gospel, using some white chips for the white layer. So you fill the bottom half of the jar according to the recipe instructions. Then add your layers: green, yellow, white chips, red, and brown, topping it with your 1/4 cup brown sugar. I didn't have any coordinating fabric for the top of the jar, so it's just plain (oh well). Then you add a fun label for your jar, include a rolled-up paper with the meanings of the colors, and give it away to someone! The idea is that we'd leave the jar in the middle of our dinner table and every time we pray for our meal we pray for who we might share these gospel cookies with. Then before Easter we give them away to our chosen person! kids are color sorting the M&Ms while I prepare the flour stuff for the jar.
