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Book List For Unit

This is a book list that I can use to teach my unit.

1.Thunder Cake By Patricia Polacco
This book is about a little girl getting scared of the weather and hides under the bed. Her grandmother insists that this is Thunder Cake-baking weather and her and grandmother make a cake.

Thunder Cake













2. The Rain Came Down By David Shannon
This book is about how a sunny day turned into rain, The people and animals around kept leaning their life even as the rain fail down.
The Rain Came Down


3. Weather By Pamela Chanko  Illustrator Daniel Moreton
This book shows the different activities that children can do in all types of weather.
Weather


4. Fly Guy Presents: Weather By Tedd Arnold
This story is about Fly Guy and Buzz going to a weather station to earn all about the weather.
Fly Guy Presents: Weather


5.  The Weather Girls by Aki
This story is about a group of girls that go through the different seasons' Summer, Fall, Winter, or Spring and the type of weather it might bring.



Comments

  1. Mrs.Turner TeachesJune 3, 2020 at 7:09 PM

    Kayla,
    I love your books that you chose! What a fun unit. I also love that you chose Thundercake. That was one of my favorite books growing up. I love the message behind it and it is such a fun book. You could even make Thundercakes with the class if you do a read aloud!

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  2. Miranda NeedyJune 7, 2020 at 7:51 AM

    Great list! I am taking note of these as weather is a big topic in elementary and these books will come in very hand! I enjoyed listening to your presentation about this topic and look forward to listening to your unit plan presentation to see the over all unit idea! Great topic to pick. Weather is so interesting to learn about and there are so many fun science experiments to go along with it as well.

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