January’s theme is a great one! To the Laboratory! I’m looking forward to it, but most of all exploring some new books about it. I will admit that we don’t have many books in the house about science. I always get them at the library. We will be using the library to explore more books….
After a month off we are back to to the Virtual Book Club again. This months author is Ellen Stoll Walsh. I have seen her books a lot but we have not read them. This is one of the reasons that I love being apart of the Virtual Book club for kids. You get to…
This is a theme I have been looking forward to. The girls love to cook with me and we often switch up who gets to cook breakfast with me. To the kitchen can mean so many different things. It can mean baking, cooking or dishes. This will be a great theme to explore with your…
I love this months author Eric Litwin is a favorite at our house. We just love the first three Pete the Cat books and we read them often. I think they are some of the most read books at our house. It did the Pete the Cat themed pack because they loved it so much….
We just love Room on the Broom. It is a great book to read and fun as well. You can see great friends and how everyone helps out the witch. We love to read it over and over. It is a book we keep out all year round and not just for Halloween. We did…
This months Poppins Book Nook theme is Beyond Our Planet. Space is a big theme at our house. We are always talking about the stars and the planets. There are so many fun and exciting books about space. I’m sure we will have fun picking out a few of the books that we will like…
This months Virtual Book Club for Kids Author is Julia Donaldson. We have some favorite books by her. We did her for the vitrual book club a while back. We read The Snail and the Whale and really enjoyed it. There are a wide range of books that she has. We really enjoyed the last…
This months theme was a lot of fun for the girls we read several different books for the wild west theme. We read several books for this months theme. It was fun to find new books every time we went to the library. It was fun to learn about the different native nations, the cowboys,…
My girls had a hard time to pick what book they wanted to do. We have all three books but they liked The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon series) the best. We read this book over and over. I love how it turns out. The books with Pigeon in them are always fun to read!…
I’m excited about this the Wild West theme this month for the Poppins Book Nook. There are so many different books to explore about it. I know that you can always find something fun and interesting to read about the Wild West. I know that I will have a hard time picking a book about…
This month the Community helper Pack came out. It has been loads of fun to use. We really loved the books we have been using for it. So we pick a book from that to use for our Poppins Book Nook activity this month. We decided to use the book Whose Tools Are These?: A…
I’ve been excited about this one for the last month. The girls picked the book Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) for this months author Aliki. This is a great fall book as well. We loved learning about different parts of history for corn. While on vacation this summer we…
This months theme of What Will I Be When I Grow Up? is a great theme for kids! There are always books and ideas for learning about different jobs and things they can be. This is a great time to do some pretend play and have fun. There are some places you can can explore…
The new Virtual Book Club for Kids author is Giles Andreae! She has great rhyming books. They are lots of fun to read. I’m looking forward to finding new books of hers! I love exploring the authors each month. I find that I look for those books and look for new books by the author….
If you read my introduction this month, the book we picked would not surprise you. We went with a book about Walden Pond. The great outdoors is something we have talked about a lot these last few weeks. We are getting ready for our summer of enjoying the outdoors as much as we can. The…
It is time for the Virtual Book Club again. This time we have a fun green yarn sheep craft to go with the book we picked for Mem Fox. This is a fun hands on craft that goes really well with the book. It was hard to pick just one book for this author! We…
Folktales are a this months Poppins Book Nook Theme. I really like how many different Folktales there are. Folktales are also hard to distinguish from fairy tales. It is a story passed down and often has a moral to the story. There is often no fairies or magic in them. It is also an oral…
This months Virtual Book Clubs Author is Mem Fox. She has fun and creative books! When pulled out my sheet to look at the author for this month I did not recognize the name at all. I was surprised that I did have one of her books. It is Time for Bed, which we read…
Traffic light fun while learning the words stop and go. Explore the book while learning some early reading activities. We read Go! Go! Go! Stop!. We just LOVED this book. It was fun and a great way to be interactive as well. This is a great way to learn about what stop lights do as…
Every month is always a fun theme. This months theme of Planes, Trains and Automobiles is very fun! My youngest LOVES all things to do with transportation! She would spend hours having me read books about it. Plus then play with them. It is going to be hard to pick just one book for this…
A new month is here and Aprils Vitural Book Club Author is Denise Fleming. We have not read any of his books. I always like when we have to find something new. You never know what you will find. Do you have a favorite book by Denise Fleming? Please comment and let me know so…
This month starts a new year for the Poppin Book Nook! This has been a fun project. We love doing these book and activity. It makes my stretch my mind as to what we will do and what books are going to look at. With a new year we have new themes. We start the…
This month was a hard one to pick books for the Virtual Book Club. Paul Galdone has some fun books. We finally settled on Three Little Kittens (Folk Tale Classics). We have others of his in the house but they had not heard this story yet. I love when I get to show them a…
The theme for this month could not have come at a better time. It is a great time since we have several past US Presidents birthdays this month. There are so many books you can explore for the presidents. You can read books about all the presidents and learn fact about each one or you…
This month for the Greek Myth theme for the Popping Book Nook we went about things very differently. We have been doing crafts and activities for the books and this time we did a field trip after reading our book: A Child’s Introduction to Greek Mythology: The Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, Monsters, and…
This months theme is Greek Myths! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while. The girls and I have talked about it some! We have an ideas of the books we might be using. Do you have a favorite Greek Myth that you love? I have several that I love. I always like…
This months author is Laura Numeroff. Our favorite book by her is If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give…). The girls always ask for milk just because of the book. It is fun to see if they would do all the things that happen in the book. I love the “If You…
This month we read one of my favorite books Hogwash! (Wilson, Karma). This is a story about spring and a farmer cleaning up his farm. The hogs don’t want to be washed. We love to follow the story through and see what happens. What you need: brown paper cut in strips, brown yarn, green &…
This months theme is animals & pets! At our house animal and pets books are most likely the most read books. We have lots of books this will be a hard time picking just one book! This is a theme where you can find lots of different books. I know that my girls are busy…