Sun booklist science astronomy kinder 1st 2nd

Sun booklist

When the kids were in kindergarten we used My Father’s World and each week there was a different theme, and each week I would look up books for that theme, head to the library and check them out. Now I put some of these booklists up on the blog, but not all of them. The other day I got into a conversation online and realized it would probably help to share all of them here, so I’m starting with the first letter taught: S. Here is our sun booklist, which would also be great with an astronomy unit.

Sun booklist

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Sun booklist nonfiction

Really you only need one book, and depending on the age is how complex the book you are going to pick is. My library only had books for early elementary, so I’ll see if I can find a 3rd-grade book to add in here.

  • Sun– A very simple ready to read book with facts about what the sun does for kindergarten/1st-grade level
  • The Sun is my Favorite Star-It is technically non-fiction, but it reads like a fiction book. The book has a nice rhythm to it.
  • The Sun– This is a late 2nd-grade/early 3rd-grade book with good information about the sun including information on how to study it and a few simple experiments
  • Energy from the Sun– A simple look at how the energy from the sun is converted by plants into food which then feeds animals, and then becomes energy (food) for us
Sun booklist for My Father's World

Quick Interlude of some other sun-related learning

Over the years we studied a lot of different things, and we did some pretty cool activities when we studied the Sun for My Father’s World, and then again later when we studied astronomy.

Sun booklist science astronomy kinder 1st 2nd

Sun booklist fiction

I love the nonfiction books I found. There are a wide variety of books some with the sun as a character, some with people/animals enjoying the sun, and some only tangentially related to the sun.

  • Sunny Days– This is a rhyming couplet book describing different things you can do on a sunny day. The pictures are cut paper illustrations, and I could see this book inspiring an attempt at that type of illustration style and working on creating a rhyming book yourself
  • Sunflower Lion– An adorable story by Kevin Henkes, a picture book author I like, and uses the simple way we draw a sun to then draw a sunflower and a lion, and make visual jokes with how similar they are
  • Sun bread– I was very disappointed there was no bread recipe at the back of the book, but other than that the book is adorably about a baker who is so sad the sun is gone, that he bakes bread to look like the sun, wholesome hijinks ensue and the entire town enjoys it
  • Mortimer’s First Garden- this was checked out from the library
  • Sun and Moon have a tea party– An adorable book where Sun and Moon have tea together and disagree with what goes on with people, until a cloud comes by and says they are both right, the illustrations are

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  1. Natalie PlanetSmarty Avatar
    Natalie PlanetSmarty

    I am having serious yearning for days long gone when I read your activity or book posts for elementary and preschool 🙂 I remember reading some of the same books with A

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