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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Plants
There are some absolutely beautiful nonfiction books about plants, flowers, and trees. I know it’s not hard to create beautiful books about nature, but these will encourage kids to take their time pouring over the details of the illustrations. Whether your kids love getting dirty in the yard or prefer…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Springy Covers
Spring is here and today’s a nice and easy Top Ten Tuesday theme – books with springy covers! I love spring, in fact, I took myself on a little spring trek through the neighborhood and took photos of all the new flowers and buds that were opening up! It’s so…
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Storytime Theme: Letter H
It’s Letter H’s day to shine! We’ve got all things starting with the letter H like hippos, hands, hats, horses, and heart. This was another letter that was easy to find a lot of books about things that start with the letter h. And there are some great nonfiction titles…
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Storytime Theme: Letter G
We’re continuing to plug away with the alphabet, one letter at a time, and today it’s all about the letter G! With letters that correlate to a lot of animals and a color, there are endless options for a Letter G lesson plan. Don’t hesitate to reach beyond the typical…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Springtime Seeds
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read the full disclosure for more information. Springtime Seeds From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons With simple language and bright illustrations, non-fiction master Gail Gibbons introduces…
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Storytime Theme: Worms
This is a fun, squiggly little storytime theme all about worms! As is typical, I’ve included a few nonfiction titles among the list as well as your typical stories. And while I’ve done countless storytimes about springtime and rain, I’ve never done one focused on worms before! You can focus…
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Storytime Theme: Gardens (2023 update)
I know, gardening is typically a spring storytime theme, but there are so many great gardening books for kids, that I couldn’t resist doing a quick update for this lesson plan! I offered a few more nonfiction books than I usually do because they’re so cool! Especially the Smithsonian/DK Publishing…
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Storytime Theme: Digging
I love a storytime theme that can really go in so many directions! Whether you’re focusing on gardening, construction, or dinosaurs these books are sure to inspire little ones to get down and dirty and start digging! Part of my family’s spring plans every year was to pick out the…
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Nina Soni, Master of the Garden
Synopsis: “Lovable Indian-American girl Nina Soni returns in the third installment of this award-winning middle grade chapter book series from Own Voices author Kashmira Sheth. It’s Take Your Child to Work Day, and Nina, Kavita, and Jay are all going to work with Mom, a landscape architect, to learn how…
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Slice of Life Day 24: Dogs In Gardens
I’ve mentioned before that we fenced in our corner lot to give our dog, Aria more room to run around. She’s an eight (?) year old rescue pit mix with lots of energy. Enough that people ask us if she’s still a puppy. Nope, she’s just crazy. So, she’s loving…
