Storytime & Read Aloud Lists 2011-2012

This year for our storytime books I decided to correlate them to our state study.  I picked my favorites from Cantering the Country’s suggestions to create this list:

• One Morning in Maine
• Little Toot
• Adventures of Obadiah
• Ox-Cart Man
• Little Red Light House
• Bernstein Bears
• The Rag Coat
• The Grouchy Ladybug
• Billy & Blaze
• Peters Chair
• The Gift of the Tree
• Brave Irene
• Lentil
• Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel
• If You Give A Pig A Pancake
• The Journey

For our read alouds we will be using most of Winter Promise’s All American 1 suggestions & some others in-between.  Farmer Boy

• All of a Kind Family
• Last of the Mohicans
• Cabin Faced West
• Strawberry Girl
• Charlotte’s Web
• Caddie Woodlawn
• Little House on the Prairie
• Riding the Pony Express
• Sara Plain & Tall
• The Sign of the Beaver
• Ben & Me
• Riding Freedom
• The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed
• By the Great Horn Spoon
• Regina Silsby’s Secret War
• Fever 1793
• Bandit’s Moon

I really try to find our read alouds on audio as much as possible & plan to continue them even during our off times of school.  We are in the car for at least 2 hours each week during my “town day” so it is a great opportunity to fit our read alouds in during that time.  We are currently listening to Sign of the Beaver & the boys just can’t get enough of it.  Even when we run to the Post Office or Dairy for milk (5-10 min drive) the boys are begging to listen to their story.