Preschool Fun at My Ocean of Notions has the best idea for reading puppets. The homemade alphabet stick puppets are so clever and easy to make. This would encourage any child to read! It's good!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a great book for young children. It was one of our favorites. It is beautifully illustrated and emphasizes how a caterpillar is an eating machine. It is available at most libraries.
It is like a treasure hunt to find caterpillars. If you take note of what caterpillars eat, when they develop and grow you have a better chance of finding caterpillars where you live.
Caterpillars in the Field and Garden: A Field Guide to the Caterpillars of North Americahas more ideas looking for caterpillars.
Here are some books I checked out of the library about butterflies. They are beautifully put together and are very informative for any child's curiosity.
The Life Cycles of Butterflies is a guide to 23 common garden butterflies throughout North America. It includes maps of each butterfly's geographic location, beautiful pictures of butterflies and caterpillars and the life cycle of butterflies from egg to maturity. This book is for an older reader or an adult can read this to their children.
From Caterpillar to Butterflyis about the Monarch butterfly. It is perfect for early elementary children to read and understand. The book covers the entire life cycle, location and interesting information about the Monarch.
Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, A Guide for Kids by Mary L Duber is a wonderful gift for the holidays. This book is easy for children to hold and use. The beautiful flowers are grouped by colors and there is a section where your child can put the place and date they first noted the wildflower. Using a reference like this helps your child observe environment, take notes, discover different shades of color and the growth cycle of plants during different seasons. It is the best way to teach science and reading in an exciting way.
The author has a talent making this interesting and informative, not only for your child, but for you as well. This is a gift for the whole family to enjoy!
Wildflowers are everywhere so this would be a wonderful for classroom field trips too.
Janice VanCleave's Plants has 20 experiments or science fair projects about seeds and plants. The experiments range from easy to more advanced. Younger children can do some of these experiments with help from older children or an adult.
Taking Rootby Alan Fowler is a great book to read out loud to preschool children. It explains about roots with beautiful pictures of everyday examples.
Even though it is dry in the high desert where I live you can find slugs under moist, rotting vegetation. Slugs are snails without a shell. I found these two library books about snails that are informative and easy to understand for your young readers and listeners.
Snails by Monica Hughes is easy to read, but it is filled with wonderful pictures and good information about snails and slugs.
Snails are part of the Mollusk family. About Mollusks A Guide for Children by Cathryn Sill is a great overview of Mollusks that include the land snail. John Sill has illustrated each page with beautiful life-like creatures. It has afterword of each illustration plate with more written information.
Any change in the seasons is a great time to sky watch. You can see different constellations as earth orbits the sun. Here are some favorite astronomy books from my local library.
Love the glow in dark constellations in this book.
Seeing Stars has constellations made from glitter.
Ten Worlds is a great resource with big and colorful pictures of planets, moons, comets, the sun and much more.
