Spring is in the air, especially if you are a homeschool mom in the United States. Your young learners probably have slight spring fever as they chopped at the bit to get outside. Perhaps you have moved your makeshift homeschool classroom closer to the window or just thrown open the curtains while your learner goes through worksheets, videos, and lessons.
Is it working, though? If not, try some reading time outside. You could pick books about spring to read to your learners with some educational substance for reading time. Or, you could pick out some books that your learners will be able to read and set up on a picnic blanket under an excellent shade tree fo enjoy this fantastic weather.
There are five speaking-inspired books you should add to your library this season!
1. Sweet Sues Adventures
Sweet Sues Adventures is the perfect book for a homeschool mom lead story time outside. It is a chapter book with six chapters involving hikes in the spring and summer months. While this book is easy to read, it is better suited as a read-aloud story for your first and second-grade students. If you use it as an independent reader, your middle schoolers will enjoy this book too.
Sweet Sues Adventures is ironically about a skunk and her kits. It covers basic things about the species entertainingly. Some educational content about skunks your young learners will encounter includes:
- Diet
- Habitat
- Kits or “skunklets”
- How skunks help farms
- How skunks are unpleasant at times
This is an older tale that takes you back a bit to when the world was slower and makes you feel more connected with nature when you read it.
2. The Gopher Goes Gaga For Grubs
Are you setting up your garden this spring and coming across grubs, worms, and other bugs? Perhaps you live in a location where gophers, lizards, and other small creatures are starting to pop out? If so, your homeschooler will enjoy reading this easy reader themselves. For kindergarten and first grade students, you may have to help them sound out a word or two along the way, so stick close by.
In The Gopher Goes Gaga For Grubs, your learners will be covering a variety of kindergarten and first-grade words that start with the letter G. Things like green, grubs, garden, etc. This book is for girls who love to garden but may not love worms and grubs so much. It is about a cute gopher and his friends who love eating grubs and go digging in a garden to find them.
3. Calamity Jane The Wise Old Raccoon
Calamity Jane, The Wise Old Raccoon, is another perfect book for homeschool mom read-aloud sessions under the shade tree. It is interesting to have raccoons around your property where your young learner could see them in person. Calamity Jane, The Wise Old Raccon, is a story about a 5-year-old raccoon and her kits. Unlike Sweet Sues Adventures, it covers an entire year of her story in five chapters. Each chapter is a different season. It explicitly covers a raccoon’s life in spring while giving it an entertaining spin in one of these chapters. While you read this book, your homeschool learner can connect to nature and learn more about raccoons:
- Diet
- Habitat
- Mischievous side
- Kits or “coonlets”
This is a chapter book with black and white photographs of the raccoon in question to go along with it. Your homeschooler can see the baby raccoons, forest, farm, and more.
4. Silly Birds
Silly Birds is a fun, easy reader for kindergarten girls that primarily focuses on color words like blue, pink, orange, green, etc. This spring, the bird’s tweets, crows, and calls have been coming out in full force from the forests, so it is an appropriate easy reader book for homeschoolers this season. Your learner will love to read this brightly colored book and hone in on color sight words while enjoying the fresh spring air. There is also an opportunity to cover other fun sight words for kindergarteners. It is also a great treat to bring along some bird spotting binoculars and do a little bird watching in the trees while reading this book outside.
5. The Easter Unicorn Talks Too Much
You have to get those holiday books this spring, and as a Christian homeschooler, you will be on the lookout for Easter, easy readers for your kindergarten and first graders. The Easter Unicorn Talks too Much is an easy read for kindergarten and first-grade girls. It has everything that both moms and daughters love in a book: educational value and unicorns.
You will find full-color pages, speech bubbles, and lots of practice with sentence structure and punctuation in this easy reader. Plus, it has a lovely easter related spin to it. For your younger readers, it might be handy to stick close by in case they need help sounding out some of the words.
Read More Homeschool Books for Less
Are you needing to read more books for less money? Well, with the Kindle Unlimited program, you can read lots of spring and summer reads. Kindle Unlimited allows you to read over 2 million books in the Kindle Unlimited library anytime you want for a small monthly fee like a Netflix subscription but less. If you are a new subscriber, there are some great discounts you should check out:
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