Summer Reading Program and Resources

As we are getting ready for our local Summer Reading Program with my daughter Jessica, who now finished Kindergarten, I've been looking for books that she can read by herself, so she can participate proudly at our Public Library Summer Reading Program.

Looking for a list of books that are at her level, I found this websites that might help somebody out there :)

  Leveled Book Lists  this is a nice list of books divided into grade levels which I am planning to use first the kindergarten level and hopefully we'll get to the first grade level list too.

It also has a list of the books in alphabetical order by title and author.

I also found at Hubbards Cupboard an article about Guided Reading in Kindergarten  which is a very helpful resource, worth reading every link this website has on it.

And last but not least, Scholastic has a Book Wizard where you can choose a book by doing a search depending on your child's grade, reading level, language, book type, topic or subject and Genre or Theme you want.

Well, I hope this helps somebody out there. 

I'll be posting more as I find more resources :)

Thanks for reading my blog :)

M for manners with Dora

what are we reading this week?

I thought this book went great

with our letter M

The grumpy old troll was mean to his friend mouse

now Dora and Boots help him get his friend back

by teaching him what to say, and

learn manners along the way!

here are our manners in Spanish:

Thank You = Gracias

Your Welcome = De nada

Please = Por favor

I'm sorry = Perdoname

Hello = Hola

Enjoy!

what we are reading this week

The Well-Read Child

is hosting a
"What My Children Are Reading" meme

this week has been only a few books

that Jessica wanted me to read them every night

Pooh's Neighborhood

what she loves about this book

is how owl has a different view of the whole neighborhood

My K book, we started reading this book

since we are doing letter K this week



Eating the Alphabet
she loves this colorful book
giving us tons of ideas for our next snacks

thanks for the great idea meme :)

Caillou books

These days we've been reading Caillou books

is amazing how much she loves Caillou

so here are some activities that we did

for these books

my daughter's favorite

pbskids.org has some activities and printables

DLTK has some awesome Caillou stuff

Sprout on line has some great printables

and here you'll find a tic tac toe game

Enjoy :)

Children's Book Week... Day two

Today we read ome Blues' Clues Books

after reading them

we decide to talk about the characters

in the book and do this coloring pages

then we decided to put clues around the house

letting her guess what was the clue I was talking about

but first we colored this clues

cut them and stick a piece of tape on the back

to play with them

I also had this blues clues coloring page

and fingerpuppets that she loved playing with...

Enjoy!

Books for Day 1 Dora

For Children's Book Week

we are starting with Dora books

we are reading

Dora Saves the Snow Princess

Meet Diego

Dora saves Mermaid Kingdom

Dora's Chilly Day

Dora and the Stuck Truck

Dora's Fairy-Tale Adventure

And here you can find some Dora Activity Books

I have

Dora color by number

Dora's connect the dots

Dora's counting book

Dora's Math journey book

Dora's mi familia activity pack

Have fun!

Children's Book Week

Thanks to The Bookworm's Booklist

for letting us know about

Children's Book Week May 11-17, 2009

which is what we'll be doing all week long

starting with a visit to the library