Words from George Littlechild's book, 'This Land is My Land.'

Doorway
Buffalo
Homeland
Headdress
Headman
Roamed
Protected
Valleys
Trees
Creator
Remember
Hearing
Columbus
Allowed
Brought
Permission
Ways
People
Reserves
Leader
Ancestors


Extinct
Magnificent
Mountains
Destination
Healing
Urban
Memory
Honors
Horses
Welcoming
Beginning
Dancing
Bird
Horse
Freedom
Elegance
Community
Celebration
Restore
Dignity
Fabric
Buttons
Reviving
Tampered
Promising

Brown cow green grass by Ellen Jackson

The book has very good visuals and is suitable for Kindergarten and Grade 1 classes. It introduces colors and vocabulary. At the back of the book ar many recipes.

Heart of a Tiger by Marsha Diane Arnold

A beautiful story about how a grey cat received her name Sher Ka Dil. The book has many sounds and makes it a good book for Storytelling by reading and the smartness of the cat saves the tiger from the hunter.

Hannah and the Seven Dresses by Marthe Joceyln

The usual dressing up in the morning routine for a girl. This book has very good pictures and it is good to do clothes using paper piecing activities based on those pictures.

The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks

This is a masai tale. The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks retold by Verna Aardema. The story is about how a lioness is sad because she does not have children and she sort of had the ostrich's children following her. Then, ostrich mama was upset and the mongoose helps her get back her children. Read to learn about the courage and smartness of a mongoose.

Princess Gorilla and a new kind of water by Verna Aardema

Princess Gorilla and a new kind of water by Verna Aardema

This books shows that monkeys are smart and demonstrates team work.

1. The mega book of instant word-building mats (Look at the picture and build the word) by M'liss Brockman and Susan Peteete
2. Canadian health activities Grades 1-3
3. Take it to your seat Writing Centers Grades 2-3 (Vacation Postcards)
4. Hidden picture fun! by Kathryn Marlin
5. Literacy Centers: what your other kids do during guided-reading groups
6. Science& stories: integrating science and literature by Hilarie N Staton and Tara McCarthy
   

Author: Steven Cosgrove

Math books

Peppers Journal: a kitten's first year by Stuart J Murphy

 

Only one by Marc Harshman

 

Equal Shmequal: amath adventure by Virginia Kroll

 

The greedy triangle by Marilyn Burns

 

Treasure map by Stuart Murphy

 

2x2 = boo! A set of spooky multiplication stories by Loreen Leedy

 

What's the difference: an endangered animal subtraction story by Suzanne Slade

 

Domino addition by Lynette Long

 

If you hopped like a frog by David M. Schwartz

 

A set of spooky multiplication stories by Loreen Leedy

 

What shape is it? By Bobbie Kalman

 

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neuschwander

 

Sir Cumference and all the King's Tens by Cindy Neuschwander

 

Zero by Kathryn Otoshi

 

The great divide: a mathematical marathon by Dayle Ann Dodds

 

How tall, how short, how far away? by David A Adler

 

Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter by Cindy Neuschwander

 

Sir Cumference and the first round table by Cindy Neuschwander

 

Super sand castle saturday by Stuart Murphy

 

Tally O' Malley by Stuart Murphy

 

Ready, set, hop! By Stuart Murphy

 

Let's fly a kite by Stuart Murphy

 

Mall mania by Stuart Murphy

 

Rabbit's pajama party by Stuart Murphy

 

Response to intervention in math by Paul Riccomini and Bradley S. Witzel

 

Spunky monkeys on parade by Stuart Murphy

 

3 little firefighters by Stuart Murphy

 

Elevator magic by Stuart Murphy

 

The grizzly gazetter by Stuart Murphy

 

Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart Murphy

 

The best vacation ever by Stuart Murphy  (post it notes)

 

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