One of our greatest joys as teachers is sharing our love of reading, writing and literature with our young students. Posted in Book Nook, Holiday Fun | Leave a reply Reading with Your Kindergarten Child: Ways to Support Literacy at Home Merry Christmas, Squirrels (Nancy Rose).Olive, the Other Reindeer (Vivian Walsh and Jotto Seibold).Richard Scarry’s Best Christmas Book Every! (Richard Scary).The Night Before Christmas (Clement Moore and illustrated by Barbara Reid).Pippin the Christmas Pig (Jean Little and Werner Zimmermann).Recent Book Purchases we’ve made for the Kindergarten

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I Spy Christmas : A Book of Picture Riddles (Walter Wick and Jean Marzollo).

McDuff’s Christmas (Rosemary Well and Susan Jeffers).

The Night Before Christmas (Clement Moore and illustrated by Tasha Tudor).

Fletcher and the Snowflake Christmas (Julia Rawlinson and Tiphanie Beeke).

Lucy and Tom’s Christmas (Shirley Hughes).Angelina’s Christmas (Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig).Little Robin Red Vest (now called Little Robin’s Christmas) (Jan Fearnley).

Country Angel Christmas (Tomie dePaola).The Night Before Christmas (Clement Moore and illustrated by Jan Bret).The Wild Christmas Reindeer (Jan Brett).Franklin’s Christmas Gift (Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark).The Jolly Christmas Postman (Janet and Allan Ahlberg).We hope that you might find one (or more) that you would like to read with your child. All of these books are beautifully written, rich with language and charming illustrations. We thought we’d share with you some of the Christmas books we’ve selected over the years. We have to admit it’s pretty funny to walk down the stairs on Christmas morning and see your kids sitting quietly reading around the tree! But it’s extremely gratifying as well. It’s the one present they can open while they’re waiting for the parents to get up. When they were young, we bought mostly picture books, activity books and comics and although it’s changed to reference books, novels and magazines as they’ve grown older, it’s a gift our kids still look forward to every year. A Christmas tradition from our homes has been to give a book bag every year to our children (thank you to Dianne W.

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