16th August Science Week

It is Science Week! If I was at school there would be a wonderful display of books for students to borrow, but we are home in lockdown. Today while planning lessons and locating poems that had a science focus, I thought of all the wonderful poetry books on the shelves at school that would have been helpful.

Here's a list:

* Spectacular Science by Lee Bennett Hopkins

* Our Big Home  by Linda Glaser and Elisa Kleven

* Thank You Earth by April Pulley Sayre 

  

* Volcano Wakes Up by Lisa Westberg Peters and Steve Jenkins

* Earthshake  by Lisa Westberg Peters and Cathie Felstead

* Ubiquitous by Joyce Sidman and Beckie Prange

* Red Sings from the Treetops by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski

* Dark Emperor by Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen (in fact nearly anything by Joyce Sidman)

* Anything by Helen Frost and Rick Lieder

* Anything by Douglas Florian

* A Leaf Can Be

* Water Can Be

* A Rock Can Be  by Laura Salas

 

3rd August Beaks

My friend at Momotimetoread just wrote about Robin Page's new book The Beak Book and while she was doing this I was planning a lesson for Kindergarten on Busy Beaks, a book on the Early Childhood shortlist for Book of the Year. I  find it curious that one aspect of birds can provide so much interest from a reading and illustrating point of view. Two of my favourite picture books are The Best Beak of Boonaroo Bay by Narelle Oliver and King of the Birds by Helen Ward. In these two books the birds are having a competition and what they do with their beaks is considered.

Books about birds are abundant and it is often hard to know which ones to buy. In the library we also have these books with great illustrations

• Bring on the Birds and Bird Show by Susan Stockdale         

• Parrots Over Porto Rico by Susan L. Roth

• Birds of a Feather: Bowerbirds and Me  by Susan L. Roth

• Beaks! by Sneed B. Collard

• The Beaks of the Birds by Richard Konicek-Moran 

and then I have noticed two new ones are just about to come

• A Peek at Beaks by Sara Levine

• Beaks by Curt Hart