The book utilizes memorable rhymes, beautiful illustrations, and page turning text to encourage the reader to be an active participant throughout the story while teaching how to count, coin currency, and the value of saving. [...] Grade level: PreK – 2 (ages 4 – 8) Teacher Lesson Plans: Just-Saving-My-Money.pdf (stlouisfed.org) Parent Q&A: Q&A: Just Saving My Money (stlouisfed.org) Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner Explore the secret world beneath the dirt that brings the world of nature to life: Up in the garden, the world is full of green—leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. [...] Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will plant the yellow seeds. [...] Detlefsen and Renee Kurilla’s delicious celebration of food and farming is sure to inspire readers of all ages to learn more about where their food comes from—right this very minute! Grade level: K – 2 (ages 4 – 7 years) Living Things and Nonliving Things: A Compare and Contrast Book by Kevin Kurtz Even though it is easy to tell that a squirrel is a living thing and a rock is a nonliving thing, wh. [...] Where did they come from? What did they eat? And perhaps most miraculously of all, was there a connection between creeping caterpil- lars and beautiful butterflies? One of the first naturalists to observe live insects directly, Maria Sibylla Merian was also one of the first to document the metamorphosis of the butterfly.
- Pages
- 8
- Published in
- United States of America
