Caldecott Snowy Set

I love beautiful books, but in this day of very funny books it's hard to get kids to notice beautiful. So I was thrilled when I received my latest order from Scholastic Books. I decided to start growing my library with beautiful award winning books so that the kids can be exposed to literature that is appealing and lovely no matter how long ago it was created. Today I read

Then after we read it, we just talked about how pretty the pictures and the language was and how much information we learned about animals in winter. Then I gave them animal footprint stencils and asked them to color in the stencil on card stock and write a few sentences about where the animal was going. They loved the activity.
Tomorrow I will read 

And the next day I plan to read