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Archive of Bobbi's favorite new books: Winter, temperature
I’ve been gathering up new books to share with Marie and Tim. Here is the first installment of my new book recommendations for the Thinking Big, Learning Big community.
Even in California the weather is getting colder and the squirrels are furrier as they prepare for winter. Here are several new titles to intrigue children who like learning about animals. Camouflage offers a wonderful opportunity to increase focus and attention in a book filled with large, clear, colorful photographs. Play the careful looking guessing game presented in Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed …and Revealed with your class. Your students will be eager to look more closely themselves. Use the foldout page flaps to discuss handling books with care – two lessons in one!
Cold, Colder, Coldest: Animals That Adapt to Cold Weather uses a very large thermometer to graph the colder and colder temperatures to which animals have adapted. Attractively illustrated, questions lead the reader and viewers through animals from cold climates around the globe. Good vocabulary practice for using comparatives. Go to the other extreme with Hot, Hotter, Hottest: Animals That Adapt to Great Heat, another fascinating offering in this series. I learned new facts from each of these.
Why Are Animals Blue? Questions are the foundation of curiosity and learning. This delightful title can complement a unit on color or animals so be prepared to add the others in the series to your library basket. And no, they are not all cold!
But the icy water on the cover of Bugs and Bugsicles: Insects in Winter made me shiver. Hurry ants, honeybees, dragonflies and Monarch butterflies – winter is coming! Highly realistic paintings portray insects preparing and weathering the winter, some make warm houses, some fly away to Mexico. Close-ups of crickets and ladybugs will spur interest in observing insects getting ready for winter.
It’s snowing in some parts of the country. Patricia Hubbell captures the enthusiasm many adults have forgotten in her aptly titled Snow Happy! An exuberant brother and sister tumble outside to spend the whole day sliding, digging, and snowman building. Recounted in energetic verse, each activity-filled page ends with the refrain: Snow Happy! Enjoy a snowy day that ends with two tired children snuggled and cozy with Mom and Dad, Gramp and Grammy, full of cocoa, in front of a warm fire while outside more snow blows and falls.
From time to time, I will be adding new book recommendation as I discover and order more for our library collection. Happy reading!
Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed …and Revealed by David Schwartz (Ages 4 – up)
Cold, Colder, Coldest: Animals That Adapt to Cold Weather by Michael Dahl (Ages 3 – 6) Temperature
Hot, Hotter, Hottest: Animals That Adapt to Great Heat by Michael Dahl (Ages 3 – 6) Temperature
Why Are Animals Blue? by Melissa Stewart (Ages 3 – 6) Color
Bugs and Bugsicles: Insects in Winter by Amy S. Hansen (Ages 4 – 8)
Snow Happy! by Patricia Hubbell (Ages 3 – 5) Winter
From time to time, I will be adding new book recommendation as I discover and order more for our library collection and time allows. Happy reading!