Festive Reads

    Winter brings to thought cozy moments of wonderful magical scenes and delights found among the pages of a book for those lucky enough to have that book enter their lives either through recommendations from other kind book appreciators or from independent discoveries. Within each book there is something to be enjoyed. These are our shared reads with you from our Google PlayBooks App which we treasure that Barron has read everyday starting today (December 15 as we are on a countdown - 10 days away.)

Pete the Cat's 12 Groovy Days of Christmas by Kimberly & James Dean -there is a sweet sing-it-yourself video of this story: https://youtu.be/Q9OkhC7jNDI

Pete The Cat Snow Daze by James Dean (they have a wonderful webpage with some free resources: https://www.petethecatbooks.com/activities)

A World of Cookies for Santa by M.E. Furman illustrated by Susan Gal which has a wonderful webpage with free recipes: https://www.worldofcookiesforsanta.com/

Happy Hanukkah, Curious George by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey.  Some free printables: https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/printables/christmas.html

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/printables/makescene.html

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/printables/bookmarks.html

Clifford Celebrates Hanukkah by Norman Bridwell  There are some nice activities here: https://pbskids.org/clifford/activities  and if you select this: https://cms-tc.pbskids.org/global/story-starter-dog-house.pdf   you could pair it with this freebie: http://www.rachelpeachey.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Story-Retelling-with-Clifford.pdf  Thank you to: https://volcanomama.com/?p=614 for the above free resource.

 

Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter By Kenard Pak   A lovely free package to accompany the book is retrievable at: https://www.thecurriculumcorner.com/thecurriculumcorner123/goodbye-autumn-hello-winter/

The Berenstain Bears Love is Kind By Mike Berenstain

There is a neat webpage and shop: https://www.berenstainbears.com/index.html

The Berenstain Bears The Joy of Giving By Jan Berenstain and Mike Berenstain   A neat page is found here: https://www.berenstainkids.com/

A Nest in the North By Tim Hotons Illustrated by Veronika Kotyk

For more information and a beautiful video: https://www.gtaweekly.ca/tim-hortons-launches-holiday-tv-commercial-and-childrens-book-a-nest-in-the-north-with-100-of-the-proceeds-from-book-sales-being-donated-to-the-un-refugee-agency/

The Berenstain Bears' Bedtime Blessings By Mike Berenstain  There are nice colouring sheets at: https://www.berenstainkids.com/coloring_book_app/index.html

Frosty The Snowman by Diane Muldrow and illustrations by Robbin Cuddy and Josie Yee Barron created a neat craft from a tea light- a snowman of our own and we learnt it from: https://onelittleproject.com/tea-light-snowman-ornaments/

Barron did a great job with these books and we did one extra to celebrate the special day. Hope you have moments of happy reading. Stay Frosty!