There Was An Odd Princess

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The Gingerbread Pirates

The children were so engaged with the props that I collected to go along with this story. Also, not shown ,I used many pirate hats as well as inflatable swords. For incorporating math, you can add an abundance of gold coins for counting and subitizing. 

There Was An Old Monster

This book has a sing - song nature and is very entertaining . I added a monster on the front of the literacy box. I included these props in order to have the children be able to recall them after listening to the story. If you can not find the actual prop, a printed picture will work fine.  Another idea is to also add the words that are mentioned in the story .The children can match these objects to the words. You can add pictures of the objects in back of the word cards.

Frog On The Log

These are two great fiction books about frogs. Five Green Speckled Frogs has a sing - song nature and is very entertaining when singing it. You can add an abundance of frogs and tiles with numerals on them as well as the words on the back. I added an old yule log but you can use any small log from the outdoors.

Rub A Dub Dub

Three Wishes

Storm Is Coming!

The Frog Prince

The 512 Ants On Sullivan Street

This story becomes a lot  more engaging when the props are added along with this book. I will add 512  plastic mini ants .The ants can be bagged and labeled by tens or by hundreds for some math fun. 

Ten Timid Ghosts

Boo!! This book is a fun way to incorporate math into your classroom. I added these props in the literacy box which go along with this story. I added an old hot wheel haunted house and bought foam ghosts from my local craft store . I wrapped Jenga blocks with black paper and glued on the ghosts. The book mentions ten ghosts but I made them go up to twenty in order to differentiate learning. 

Fancy Nancy

Fancy Nancy books are for both girls and boys. This book is a great way to build the children's vocabulary.  This author has a whole series of great books to use with children.

The Cat In The Hat

This well known Dr. Seuss book is read every year in my class. The children really become rhyming experts after reading the books in his collection. I used props from an old board game and some stuffed characters in this literacy box. I wrote the words of the objects on index cards . The  children can enhance their print awareness skills by matching the words to the objects. 

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