“The new city was full of color. It wasn‘t perfect, but it was home.”

This book is a great story to teach students that even if people look different from you, they are still the same on the inside. You could use this to build a lesson about primary colors. Or this could be used to talk about how everybody is different and everybody is made from different cultures. Lessons would incorporate what makes your students them.

Week 2: Picture Books! Such a cute book. This teaching caring about others even if they are different. Love its positivity. Published July 3, 2018.

“I know your name is different from your classmates, but that isn‘t a bad thing. “

Students could use this book to find what is important about their name. This can be done through research or through things that they think are significant about them to share with everybody. This could be a great getting to know your students activity.

Week 2: Picture Books! Great book for self confidence. It also stresses the importance of respect for others. Also shows the reasoning behind names and what makes them important to learn. Published July 12, 2022.

You could use this book to introduce a lesson on community within the classroom. Many teachers use this book to create classroom rules. Also works with many SEL terms and diversity within the classroom. You could use many key points from the book to create a masterpiece together.

“So if our classroom is a place where we spend our days, why wouldn‘t we want to make it like a home in many ways? “

Week 2: Picture Books! This story explains how your classroom is a family. Such a cute book promoting community in eh classroom. Great start of year book. Published: April 7, 2020.

“What if I learn too much? My head might pop off.”

Students can read this book and identify a time that they were scared. Depending on age level, students could write or draw this experience and explain in their own words why they felt that way. They could then explain how they overcame that fear.

Week 2: Picture Books. Such a funny book! Student would find it very entertaining to read this book in free time. Helps identify emotions too. Published July 2, 2019.

“With his amazing talent, and his smile, big and wide, Crosby‘s accepted and proud, and his new friends by his side.”

this book could be used to help students identify what makes them unique. It also teaches the lesson of not giving into peer pressure. Could be a great lesson on students picking out positive attributes about themselves or friends.

Week 2: Picture Books. such an uplifting book! Teaches, great lessons about being yourself. Illustrations are cute and colorful. I also love the rhyming pattern within. Published July 15, 2022.

“Anger explodes.”

this book would be best used in building vocabulary and identifying emotions of students. When using this book, you could have students pick one of the emotions listed and write a sentence on how they feel. You could also allow students to illustrate how they feel depending on age.

Week 2: Picture Books! Love, love, love this book. this book does a fabulous job explaining emotions in building vocabulary for little ones. The illustrations throughout are all dim colors, but show great detail in each emotion. Published July 5th, 2022.

“She‘s bold and confident, getting stuff done. True loves meeting new people, making a pal. She‘s the world changing type, a powerful gal.”

would be a great book to use in the classroom! Could be connected to a lesson that everyone picks what makes them unique. Could also be used in a rhyming word lesson to identify different endings of words.

Week 2: Picture Books! very cute book! Promotes inclusivity and diversity. Also uses rhyming sentences in poetry like fashion. Very good to include in a classroom library. Published: August 9, 2022.

“Dear Duncan, I see a yellow crayon already talk to you, big whiner. Anyways, can you tell Mr. tattletale that he is not the color of the sun?”

This would be a great book to study letter structure with students. Since the majority of pages are written as letters, it would be fun to have students pick out different aspects they see on each page. This could also be used to study a different colors and identify them.

Week 2: Picture Books! This book is so cute. I love how all the crayons have their own personalities. So entertaining to guess what each one will say. Great books! Published: June 27,2013.

this book would be a good read if you have just a little time to fill during your school day. It also teaches students about the importance of teamwork and collaboration. Also could be evolved into a cool hands-on activity with all the different types of pasta.

“… Until they were living together in a very super place. “

Week 2: Picture Book! this is a silly story about pasta trying to escape. Throughout this story, they explain a plan of their escape from humans. The story is used for comedy. Not much of a plot behind the story. Published August 29, 2017.

This book is a great story for children to explain that nobody is perfect. It also emphasizes the importance of trying your best. Overall, it would be great a way to introduce how to make good choices in a classroom.

“That‘s right. I stopped smiling. I kept to myself. I drifted. “

Week 2: Picture book! This book is a really good story to teach students about respect. This gives examples on what NOT to do at school or in life. Overall, tells a great story and encourages kids to act with kindness. Published April 8th, 1954.

“A home of light. “

this book could be used to help students use sentence structure. Due to the book being poetry, the sentences are rather short. This could help encourage students that are developing early on writing skills. You could use the book to show examples.

Week 1: Caldecott Winner! this book includes a lot of great pictures although many are only black and white. with few words, the book depends on the illustrations to help guide the story. Published in 2008

“Amos had a lot to do at the zoo, but he always made time to visit his good friends. “

The students could interact with this book by writing or telling how they would help a friend that was sick. Then you can encourage students to use these the next time a friend misses school due to sickness.

Week 1: Caldecott Winner! Such a cute book! help students understand the true meaning of friendship. Although fiction, students would love hearing a story about a man with a golden heart. Published May 25, 2010.

A wordless book.

This book could be used in the classroom, even though it‘swordless. Students love coming up with their own stories. So they‘re using the illustrations students can write their own words for what they are interpreting for what is happening. you could also use this book to study how illustrations can tell a story too.

Week 1: Caldecott Winner! This is a really great picture book with lots of details. Although wordless, this book could be used in many good ways. Published May 10, 2011.

“ You‘ll always be my bear.”

Week 1: Caldecott Winner! This book is such a fun story. Student would love this book in a classroom setting. Kids would love to hear the story about the bear who joined the army. Overall, I love it! Published: Oct. 2015.

Teachers could use the book by comparing fiction to nonfiction. Since it‘s a true story students could compare and contrast using the book and what they find researching this story.

“They pack their belongings into the boat and wave farewell to the gulls.”

This book has many vocabulary words. This could be used for a lesson on light houses and carding in the many words used in the story such as “Coast Guard” or “lens” depending on age.

Week 1: Caldecott Winner! This is a great informational book. Could be used in many ways in a classroom setting. the pictures are very detailed and show people great incite, while telling a story. Published: April 10, 2018.

“ Take courage! I must keep the black snake away from my villages water. I must rally my people together. “

This would be a great book to introduce pollution and its affects on our world. You could also talk about the Dakota access pipeline, due to this being based off of a true event.

Week 1: Caldecott Winner!This book is a great book with lots of interesting pictures. I love the use of metaphors and how the students can relate to the characters feelings. Great book to open discussions. Published: Mar. 17,2020.

“ too close! too loud! too much!”

Could be used in a classroom to group vocabulary for words like “shimmer”. You could also challenge students to identify the rhyming words within the text.