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This Is My Family
Bobbie Kalman
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Feb. 15, 2011)Families are built in many different ways. This interesting book describes the different members who make up a family including sisters and brothers, parents and stepparents, and grandparents. A creative activity asks children to write a book or a story about their families and add family photos.
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I Have Feelings
Bobbie Kalman
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Feb. 15, 2011)This book explores the world of emotions and helps children identify their own feelings. Entertaining photographs show young readers what emotions look like on childrens faces. Patterned text and an activity help readers understand a wide range of emotions.
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How Are They the Same?
Bobbie Kalman
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Feb. 15, 2011)This fascinating book challenges children to identify similarities and differences in the patterns, textures, and body parts of animals, as well as in the way certain animals begin life, such as hatching from eggs. A fun activity asks young readers to compare illustrations of dinosaurs and identify things that are the same.
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A Bath
Bobbie Kalman
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Feb. 15, 2011)Fun photographs of different animals taking a bath are the highlight of this entertaining book. Repetitive text structure and close picture-to-text match help children read along as they see a bear, a bird, a cat, an elephant, a monkey, and other animals splashing and squirting water. Young children are then asked to relate it to their own experienceDo you like having a bath?
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My Senses Help Me
Bobbie Kalman
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 2010)Young readers are introduced to the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Each spread in this fun book features one sense. Simple text and close-up photographs show children exploring their surroundings using that sense. An activity asks children to guess which foods on the page would taste sweet, sour, salty, or spicy.
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My Family Community
Bobbie Kalman
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 2010)How is a family a community? This book shows young readers that, like a community, a family has members who perform roles. Parents teach and care for their children and go to work to earn money for the family; children have rules to follow and household jobs to perform. Cooperation and communication between family members keeps the family community strong. Questions throughout the book encourage children to relate the information to their own families.
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What Are My Jobs?
Bobbie Kalman
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 2010)Children love to take an active role in helping around their homes. This busy book shows children doing chores inside the house by cleaning and washing dishes, as well as outside, by raking leaves and sorting materials for recycling. Taking care of other siblings and pets are also important jobs children can do. An activity asks children which jobs they do at home and suggests ways to make the jobs more fun.
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These Are My Friends
Bobbie Kalman
Hardcover (Crabtree Pub Co, Feb. 15, 2011)Illustrations and rhyming text introduce young readers to the idea of friendship.
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Reptile Rap
Bobbie Kalman
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Aug. 1, 2010)Rap is being used to teach reading in many schools. It is a fun way to introduce sounds and rhymes, as well as beat. This book features pictures of rapping reptiles that make children laugh and want to create their own rap verses. It covers the rapping reptiles that introduce their classifications, body structures, behaviour, and food choices.
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Body Talk
Bobbie Kalman
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Feb. 15, 2011)This interesting book shows children how our faces and body postures show the emotions we are feeling. Throughout the book and in an activity at the end, young readers are asked to figure out which emotions the children pictured in the photos are feeling. This important book will help children read the unspoken feelings that they and others express. It can be a big help to children with Aspergers syndrome, who may have difficulty picking up on social cues and reading the body language of others.
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I Move Like This
Bobbie Kalman
Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 2010)Over, under, behind, betweenthis action-packed title uses images of children moving to help young readers understand words describing types of movement, position, and direction. A simple activity asks readers to match the children on the page to descriptions of movements.
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The Clothes I Wear
Bobbie Kalman
Paperback (Crabtree Pub Co, Feb. 15, 2011)What clothes do we wear when it is summer or winter or when it is time for bed? Appealing photos with simple labels help children learn why we wear different clothes for different seasons or for doing certain activities. A special section shows children in uniforms and costumes and asks readers to identify when each of these special clothes might be worn.
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