Tag: My Father’s World

  • Kangaroo booklist

    Kangaroo booklist

    This Kangaroo booklist came about because I was looking at an old post and thought, I never actually wrote down my list I used when we did our kangaroo unit. At some point I might expand this into a whole unit, rather than the booklist it is, and tell everyone all we did when we…

  • Preschool Apple Unit

    Preschool Apple Unit

    You know what every kid in the world learns about at some point in their life? Apples! I remember when I was teaching 1st grade we had an apple unit, and I remember the pre-k teacher had a preschool apple unit, and there was almost certainly a unit with the kinder kids and I know…

  • All about Us books for My Father’s World Kindergarten

    All about Us books for My Father’s World Kindergarten

    Learning All About Us, and yes in my mind those are all capitalized is a common preschool or kindergarten theme. For us, it showed up in our kindergarten, and my preschool daughter was pulled along as traveled through this unit. I did a pivot from the original idea, which was more on the five senses…

  • Grow your imagination with these botany picture books

    Grow your imagination with these botany picture books

    As we worked our way through My Father’s World Kindergarten each week there was a different theme. I very quickly learned it pays off to check my local library for some more books to go with our theme. Since two weeks of the curriculum have the themes of leaf and apple, I’m terming this our…

  • Ocean booklist and Octopus booklist

    Ocean booklist and Octopus booklist

    When My Father’s World Kindergarten picked “O is for Octopus,” I started thinking, “but what octopus books are there? I can’t think of any.” I was right, there aren’t really any great octopus fiction books, but if you expand it out into ocean animals, there are a plethora of books you can find at the…