Message: 12
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:13:04 +0000
From: Kelly K
A big thanks to the many many people who responded to my call for kindergarten read-alouds.
I apologize that for lack of time the list is not better organized. However, for those of you who requested the list, there will no doubt be some helpful suggestions here.
Skippyjon Jones all the way. Recent favorite: Interrupting
Chicken.
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Mo Willems
Wide Mouthed Frog / Faulkner
The Doorbell Rang / Hutchins (we have felt plates and cookies on the
feltboard to use with the story)
Put Me In The Zoo / Lopshire
The King the Mice and the Cheese / Gurney
Baby Beebee Bird / Massie
Karma Wilson's Bear books
Silly Sally / Wood
A Fish Out of Water / Palmer
Round Robin / Kent
Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Kent
Froggy Gets Dressed / London
One Duck Stuck by Root
Fortunately by Remy Charlip
Munsch books
Patricia Polacco
Margie Palatini (Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes, Sweet Tooth)
Ted Arnold's books
Dav Pilkey's books
Lane Smith's Happy Hocky family
Scieszka's books
Superdog: heart of a hero
Kevin O'malley's books (Once Upon a cool motorcycle dude)
Hoffman's Grace books
Kimmel's Anansi stories
Non-fiction picture books
Melanie Watts
Todd Parr
The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram
The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins
Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee
A Book by Mordicai Gerstein
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman.
Bark George Jules Feiffer
Stephanie's Ponytail (Munsch)
Aaaarrgghh! Spider (Monks)
Epossumondas (Salley)
Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule,
Miss Suzy by Miriam Young
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky
Clifford, Curious George, and Amelia Bedelia.
Minerva series of picture books
The Mitten (Aylesworth and Brett)
Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli
Duck, Rabbit by Amy Rosenthal
Birds by Kevin Henkes
All God's Critters by Bill Staines
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Moonshot by Brian Floca
Princess Hyacinth by Florence Perry Heide
Mary Louise loses her manners by Diane Cuneo ; illustrated by Jack E.
Davis
Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catanlano (spelling)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Almost anything by William Steig
Miss Nelson Is Back by Allard
A Bad case of Stripes by Shannon
The Library by Stewart
Story of Little Babaji by Bannerman
To get recommendations you might want to check out the
website at http://molib.org/awards/buildingblock/index.html -
Pout Pout Fish Deb Diesen
Pete the Cate (2 books) Eric Litwin
Do you do a Didgeridoo? Nick Page
Charlie & Lola books by Lauren Child
Over in the Jungle Rainforest Rhyme
How I became a Pirate - Melinda Long
Gulliver Snip by Julia Kay
Charlotte's Web - White
Aesop's Fables
Two of my favorites are Don't Forget the Bacon, and Harold
and the Purple Crayon. We all recite the shopping list together in the
1st story. We talk a lot about Harold's resourcefulness and determination
in the 2nd. Also spend time guessing what will Harold do now?
Anything by Mo Williams
My Little Sister Ate One
Hare (Grossman)
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp (Shields)
Silly Sally (Audrey
Wood)
Farmer Mc Peepers and His Missing Milk Cows (Duffield)
Duck! Rabbit! (Rosenthal)
Yes Day (Rosenthal)
What are you so grumpy about? (Lichtenheld)
Shark vs. Train (Barton)
Sheep in a Jeep (Shaw)
All Aboard the Dino Train (Lund)
Wiggle (Cronin)
Parts (books) (Tedd
Arnold)
I Took My Frog to the Library (Kimmel)
Double Trouble in Walla
Walla (Clements)
Icky Sticky Frog (Bentley)
Library Lil (Williams)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff)
Mrs. Biddlebox (Smith)
A Birthday for Cow (Thomas)
Dinosaur vs. Bedtime (Shea)
Duck Soup (Urbanovic)
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (Slate)
Croakey Pokey (Ethan Long)
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes (James Dean)
http://www.brookhillelementary.org/?PageName=LatestNews&Section=Highlights&ItemID=57593&ISrc=School&Itype=Highlights&SchoolID=281
Stephanie?s Ponytail
(Munsch)
The Grufalo by Donaldson
Wolf's Chicken Stew by Kasza
Pig Pig Grows Up - McPhail
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Barrett
Anything by William Steig but especially Dr. DeSoto, Brave Irene, Amazing Bone
The Empty Pot and The Hungry Coat by Demi
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
Story about lemon pudding from the Stories Julian Tells by Cameron
Are You a Horse? (Andy Rash)
A New Brain for Igor / Teddy O'Connor
Brave Little Monster / Keith Baker
Frank was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance / Keith Graves
Any of Mo Willems' Piggie & Elephant books, especially
There Is A Bird On Your Head!
Rhyming Dust Bunnies / Jan Thomas
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude / Kevin O'Malley (I've done
this with 5th-6th graders and they loved it, too)
Round Robin / Jack Kent
Piggie Pie / Margie Palatini
My Big Dog , Tops & Bottoms, Great Fuzz Frenzy (one of
my favs but some groups don't get it) / Janet Stevens
Don?t Read this Book (Jill Lewis)
Miss Nelson is Missing and Mabela the Clever
might work.
Kinder Books Read?the
kids are different every year so you could just reuse this list if you want
Discovery: Fridays @
1pm
Magic Hat (ok)
Waking Beauty (liked)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible? (ok)
I know an old teacher? (liked)
Parts by Arnold
(ok)
Scaredy Squirrel (had already read it)
Frog Prince, continued (ok)
Perfect Nest (liked)
Gunniwolf (liked)
Book Eating Boy (ok)
Falling for Rapunzel (ok)
Ivan the Terrier (ok)
Porkenstein (liked)
Caterpillar and the Polliwog (ok)
Epossumondas (ok)
The Old Woman and Her Pig (liked)
Small Friends:
Thursdays @ 1:30pm
Gunniwolf (liked)
Falling for Rapunzel (liked)
Squeaky Door (liked)
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (liked,
but had read before)
The Terrible Plop (liked)
Ivan the Terrier (ok)
Porkenstein (liked)
The Wolf?s Chicken Stew (liked)
My Little Sister Ate One Hare (liked)
Magic Hat (ok)
The Fox in the Dark (liked)
Frog Prince, Continued
Talent Show (liked)
Epossumondas (liked)
Old Woman and Her Pig (loved)
Purple Kangaroo (liked-not sure if they got all the jokes,
but still loved it)
Silly Tilly (liked)
The Three Little Gators (liked)
Waking Beauty (liked, but didn?t get the puns)
Possible future reads:
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
Millie Waits for the Mail
The Great Monster Hunt
Kindergarten Read-a-Louds, just title and/or author
Recommended:
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Mo Willems
Wide Mouthed Frog / Faulkner
The Doorbell Rang / Hutchins (we have felt plates and
cookies on the feltboard to use with the story)
Put Me In The Zoo / Lopshire
The King the Mice and the Cheese / Gurney
Baby Beebee Bird / Massie
Karma Wilson's
Bear books
Silly Sally / Wood
A Fish Out of Water / Palmer
Round Robin / Kent
Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Kent
Froggy Gets Dressed / London
One Duck Stuck by Root
Fortunately by Remy Charlip
Munsch books
Patricia Polacco
Margie Palatini (Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes, Sweet Tooth)
Dav Pilkey's books
Lane Smith's Happy Hocky family
Scieszka's books
Superdog: heart of a hero
Kevin O'malley's books (Once Upon a cool motorcycle dude)
Hoffman's Grace books
Kimmel's Anansi stories
Non-fiction picture books
The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram
The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins
Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee
A Book by Mordicai Gerstein
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman.
Bark George Jules Feiffer
Stephanie's Ponytail (Munsch)
Aaaarrgghh! Spider (Monks)
Epossumondas (Salley)
Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule,
Miss Suzy by Miriam Young
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky
Clifford, Curious George, and Amelia Bedelia.
Minerva series of picture books
The Mitten (Aylesworth and Brett)
Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli
Duck, Rabbit by Amy Rosenthal
Birds by Kevin Henkes
All God's Critters by Bill Staines
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Moonshot by Brian Floca
Princess Hyacinth by Florence
Perry Heide
Mary Louise loses her manners by Diane Cuneo ; illustrated
by Jack E. Davis
Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catalano (spelling)
Almost anything by William Steig
A Bad case of Stripes by Shannon
The Library by Stewart
Story of Little Babaji by Bannerman
Tree of Birds by
Susan Meddaugh
Birdfeeder
Banquet by Michael Martchenko
Two Frogs by
Christopher Wormell ? this may appear like a very simple picture book but it
has a twist at the end which younger children won?t get, I use it for kids up
to Grade 3
Discovery Kinder Books Read
Put on hold: Children Make Terrible Pets
Waking Beauty (liked)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible? (ok)
I know an old teacher? (liked)
Parts by Arnold
(ok)
Scaredy Squirrel (had already read it)
Frog Prince (ok)
Perfect Nest (liked)
Gunniwolf (liked)
Book Eating Boy (ok)
Falling for Rapunzel (ok-didn?t get the rhymes)
Ivan the Terrier (liked)
Small Friends Kinders Read
Gunniwolf (liked)
Falling for Rapunzel (liked)
Squeaky Door (really liked)
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (liked,
but had read before)
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:13:04 +0000
From: Kelly K
A big thanks to the many many people who responded to my call for kindergarten read-alouds.
I apologize that for lack of time the list is not better organized. However, for those of you who requested the list, there will no doubt be some helpful suggestions here.
Skippyjon Jones all the way. Recent favorite: Interrupting
Chicken.
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Mo Willems
Wide Mouthed Frog / Faulkner
The Doorbell Rang / Hutchins (we have felt plates and cookies on the
feltboard to use with the story)
Put Me In The Zoo / Lopshire
The King the Mice and the Cheese / Gurney
Baby Beebee Bird / Massie
Karma Wilson's Bear books
Silly Sally / Wood
A Fish Out of Water / Palmer
Round Robin / Kent
Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Kent
Froggy Gets Dressed / London
One Duck Stuck by Root
Fortunately by Remy Charlip
Munsch books
Patricia Polacco
Margie Palatini (Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes, Sweet Tooth)
Ted Arnold's books
Dav Pilkey's books
Lane Smith's Happy Hocky family
Scieszka's books
Superdog: heart of a hero
Kevin O'malley's books (Once Upon a cool motorcycle dude)
Hoffman's Grace books
Kimmel's Anansi stories
Non-fiction picture books
Melanie Watts
Todd Parr
The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram
The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins
Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee
A Book by Mordicai Gerstein
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman.
Bark George Jules Feiffer
Stephanie's Ponytail (Munsch)
Aaaarrgghh! Spider (Monks)
Epossumondas (Salley)
Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule,
Miss Suzy by Miriam Young
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky
Clifford, Curious George, and Amelia Bedelia.
Minerva series of picture books
The Mitten (Aylesworth and Brett)
Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli
Duck, Rabbit by Amy Rosenthal
Birds by Kevin Henkes
All God's Critters by Bill Staines
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Moonshot by Brian Floca
Princess Hyacinth by Florence Perry Heide
Mary Louise loses her manners by Diane Cuneo ; illustrated by Jack E.
Davis
Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catanlano (spelling)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Almost anything by William Steig
Miss Nelson Is Back by Allard
A Bad case of Stripes by Shannon
The Library by Stewart
Story of Little Babaji by Bannerman
To get recommendations you might want to check out the
website at http://molib.org/awards/buildingblock/index.html -
Pout Pout Fish Deb Diesen
Pete the Cate (2 books) Eric Litwin
Do you do a Didgeridoo? Nick Page
Charlie & Lola books by Lauren Child
Over in the Jungle Rainforest Rhyme
How I became a Pirate - Melinda Long
Gulliver Snip by Julia Kay
Charlotte's Web - White
Aesop's Fables
Two of my favorites are Don't Forget the Bacon, and Harold
and the Purple Crayon. We all recite the shopping list together in the
1st story. We talk a lot about Harold's resourcefulness and determination
in the 2nd. Also spend time guessing what will Harold do now?
Anything by Mo Williams
My Little Sister Ate One
Hare (Grossman)
Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp (Shields)
Silly Sally (Audrey
Wood)
Farmer Mc Peepers and His Missing Milk Cows (Duffield)
Duck! Rabbit! (Rosenthal)
Yes Day (Rosenthal)
What are you so grumpy about? (Lichtenheld)
Shark vs. Train (Barton)
Sheep in a Jeep (Shaw)
All Aboard the Dino Train (Lund)
Wiggle (Cronin)
Parts (books) (Tedd
Arnold)
I Took My Frog to the Library (Kimmel)
Double Trouble in Walla
Walla (Clements)
Icky Sticky Frog (Bentley)
Library Lil (Williams)
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff)
Mrs. Biddlebox (Smith)
A Birthday for Cow (Thomas)
Dinosaur vs. Bedtime (Shea)
Duck Soup (Urbanovic)
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (Slate)
Croakey Pokey (Ethan Long)
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes (James Dean)
http://www.brookhillelementary.org/?PageName=LatestNews&Section=Highlights&ItemID=57593&ISrc=School&Itype=Highlights&SchoolID=281
Stephanie?s Ponytail
(Munsch)
The Grufalo by Donaldson
Wolf's Chicken Stew by Kasza
Pig Pig Grows Up - McPhail
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Barrett
Anything by William Steig but especially Dr. DeSoto, Brave Irene, Amazing Bone
The Empty Pot and The Hungry Coat by Demi
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
Story about lemon pudding from the Stories Julian Tells by Cameron
Are You a Horse? (Andy Rash)
A New Brain for Igor / Teddy O'Connor
Brave Little Monster / Keith Baker
Frank was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance / Keith Graves
Any of Mo Willems' Piggie & Elephant books, especially
There Is A Bird On Your Head!
Rhyming Dust Bunnies / Jan Thomas
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude / Kevin O'Malley (I've done
this with 5th-6th graders and they loved it, too)
Round Robin / Jack Kent
Piggie Pie / Margie Palatini
My Big Dog , Tops & Bottoms, Great Fuzz Frenzy (one of
my favs but some groups don't get it) / Janet Stevens
Don?t Read this Book (Jill Lewis)
Miss Nelson is Missing and Mabela the Clever
might work.
Kinder Books Read?the
kids are different every year so you could just reuse this list if you want
Discovery: Fridays @
1pm
Magic Hat (ok)
Waking Beauty (liked)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible? (ok)
I know an old teacher? (liked)
Parts by Arnold
(ok)
Scaredy Squirrel (had already read it)
Frog Prince, continued (ok)
Perfect Nest (liked)
Gunniwolf (liked)
Book Eating Boy (ok)
Falling for Rapunzel (ok)
Ivan the Terrier (ok)
Porkenstein (liked)
Caterpillar and the Polliwog (ok)
Epossumondas (ok)
The Old Woman and Her Pig (liked)
Small Friends:
Thursdays @ 1:30pm
Gunniwolf (liked)
Falling for Rapunzel (liked)
Squeaky Door (liked)
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (liked,
but had read before)
The Terrible Plop (liked)
Ivan the Terrier (ok)
Porkenstein (liked)
The Wolf?s Chicken Stew (liked)
My Little Sister Ate One Hare (liked)
Magic Hat (ok)
The Fox in the Dark (liked)
Frog Prince, Continued
Talent Show (liked)
Epossumondas (liked)
Old Woman and Her Pig (loved)
Purple Kangaroo (liked-not sure if they got all the jokes,
but still loved it)
Silly Tilly (liked)
The Three Little Gators (liked)
Waking Beauty (liked, but didn?t get the puns)
Possible future reads:
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
Millie Waits for the Mail
The Great Monster Hunt
Kindergarten Read-a-Louds, just title and/or author
Recommended:
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Mo Willems
Wide Mouthed Frog / Faulkner
The Doorbell Rang / Hutchins (we have felt plates and
cookies on the feltboard to use with the story)
Put Me In The Zoo / Lopshire
The King the Mice and the Cheese / Gurney
Baby Beebee Bird / Massie
Karma Wilson's
Bear books
Silly Sally / Wood
A Fish Out of Water / Palmer
Round Robin / Kent
Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Kent
Froggy Gets Dressed / London
One Duck Stuck by Root
Fortunately by Remy Charlip
Munsch books
Patricia Polacco
Margie Palatini (Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes, Sweet Tooth)
Dav Pilkey's books
Lane Smith's Happy Hocky family
Scieszka's books
Superdog: heart of a hero
Kevin O'malley's books (Once Upon a cool motorcycle dude)
Hoffman's Grace books
Kimmel's Anansi stories
Non-fiction picture books
The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram
The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins
Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee
A Book by Mordicai Gerstein
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman.
Bark George Jules Feiffer
Stephanie's Ponytail (Munsch)
Aaaarrgghh! Spider (Monks)
Epossumondas (Salley)
Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule,
Miss Suzy by Miriam Young
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky
Clifford, Curious George, and Amelia Bedelia.
Minerva series of picture books
The Mitten (Aylesworth and Brett)
Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch
Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli
Duck, Rabbit by Amy Rosenthal
Birds by Kevin Henkes
All God's Critters by Bill Staines
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
Moonshot by Brian Floca
Princess Hyacinth by Florence
Perry Heide
Mary Louise loses her manners by Diane Cuneo ; illustrated
by Jack E. Davis
Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catalano (spelling)
Almost anything by William Steig
A Bad case of Stripes by Shannon
The Library by Stewart
Story of Little Babaji by Bannerman
Tree of Birds by
Susan Meddaugh
Birdfeeder
Banquet by Michael Martchenko
Two Frogs by
Christopher Wormell ? this may appear like a very simple picture book but it
has a twist at the end which younger children won?t get, I use it for kids up
to Grade 3
Discovery Kinder Books Read
Put on hold: Children Make Terrible Pets
Waking Beauty (liked)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible? (ok)
I know an old teacher? (liked)
Parts by Arnold
(ok)
Scaredy Squirrel (had already read it)
Frog Prince (ok)
Perfect Nest (liked)
Gunniwolf (liked)
Book Eating Boy (ok)
Falling for Rapunzel (ok-didn?t get the rhymes)
Ivan the Terrier (liked)
Small Friends Kinders Read
Gunniwolf (liked)
Falling for Rapunzel (liked)
Squeaky Door (really liked)
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (liked,
but had read before)
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