Kindergarten

Today in the library, Kindergarten searched the BCD campus for clues…to Mother Goose. Scattered around our grounds, students found some of their favorite nursery rhymes (Hickory Dickory Dock and Jack and Jill) as well as discovered some new ones (Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home/ Your house is on fire/Your children are gone and Hiccup, hiccup, go away/Come again another day/Hiccup, hiccup, when I wake/I will give you a butter cake).

Nursery rhymes are excellent building blocks for emergent and beginning readers. While the unusual vocabulary make them challenging to decode, the catchy rhythms and rhymes stimulate phonemic awareness. Lastly, nursery rhymes are narrative in its most basic form, leading the reader through a problem and its clever solution.

We concluded with book browsing and checkout. This was our last checkout day. Please, please check your shelves for missing and overdue books. Happy Reading!

Today in the library, I introduced Kindergarten to a transitional series of books that are perfect for emergent and beginning readers. Those of you with older children (or even you, yourself) might remember the beloved chapter books series, The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warren. Over 100 books are contained in this classic children’s series that brings to life the adventures of the Alden family. While The Boxcar Children series are targeted for readers in primary grades, this is a wonderful early reader set published in the 1990s that we have in the library. The set is located under the window seat in the meerkat burrow area of the library. Features that make this set perfect for Kindergarten include vivid, colorful illustrations, larger print and simplified plot.

We shared the first book in the series today. If you’re looking for a new twist on a classic children’s book, check out The Boxcar Children early readers set.

Happy Reading!