My Kindergarten
Take a glorious month-by-month tour through the kindergarten year with master teacher Miss Cribbage, a guinea pig, as seen through the eyes of Emily the rabbit, one of eight animal students in the class. You'll get to know all of them: Diane, Emily, Louise, Martha, Odysseus, Otis, Roger, and Terrance, snug in their little their schoolhouse on Cranberry Island in Maine. As the months go by, they count, collect weeds and seeds, make maps, sing, and widen their horizons across the activity-filled curriculum. Note the natural focus on all the vital school and life skills, including science, reading, math, music, art, dance, weather, time, football, holidays, punctuation, measurement, money, poetry, and loving your library, of course.
Themes : SCHOOLS & SCHOOL STORIES. TEACHERS. TIME.
CRITICS HAVE SAID
- The book is lighthearted and full of caring detail, warm expressions, and explosions of color. In addition to being about that wonderful first year of school, Kindergarten serves as a celebration of family and community, reminding readers that the school day extends far beyond the borders of the classroom walls. This is Wells at her best.
–School Library Journal
IF YOU LOVE THIS BOOK, THEN TRY:
- Allard, Harry. Miss Nelson Is Missing. Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
- Child, Lauren. I Am Too Absolutely Small for School. Candlewick, 2004.
- Jackson, Ellen. It’s Back to School We Go!: First Day Stories from around the World. Millbrook, 2003.
- Lillegard, Dee. Hello School!: A Classroom Full of Poems. Knopf, 2001.
- McGhee, Alison. Countdown to Kindergarten. Harcourt, 2002.
- Schwartz, Amy. Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner. Orchard, 1988.
- Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten. Dutton, 1998.
- Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten. Dutton, 1996.
- Strete, Craig. The Rattlesnake Who Went to School. Putnam, 2004.
- Wells, Rosemary. Emily’s First 100 Days of School. Hyperion, 2000.
- Wells, Rosemary. Timothy Goes to School. Dial, 1981.
- Wells, Rosemary. Yoko. Hyperion, 1998.
- Wells, Rosemary. Yoko’s Paper Cranes. Hyperion, 2001.
- Wells, Rosemary. Yoko’s World of Kindness: Golden Rules for a Happy Classroom. Hyperion, 2005.