Read to Me – Transportation Theme Books

We just finished up 2 weeks of transportation themed activities, here are the books that we read during these two weeks:

Trucks by Fiona Watt- We bought this book quite awhile ago, and it has been one of Lucas' favourites ever since! The text is short and simple, perfect for a two year old that doesn't like to sit still! Each page has its own truck with multiple textures to feel, also each page has background images, and or animals to touch and feel which is great for expanding the story and learning even further!

Alphabeep by Deborah Pearson- I loved this book! I thought the rhyming text was sweet, and the pictures were bright, bold, and engaging! Both of the boys enjoyed this book as well, it was a little difficult for Lucas to sit still for the whole book but he loved seeing all the different vehicles, and he chose this book several times throughout the week!

My Car by Byron Barton– This is a terrific book for any little boy who loves cars, Lucas wanted to read it over and over again! Once again this was a book with very simple text  “I am Sam – This is my car.”  Throughout the book Sam talks about his car and its parts, and how he cares for his car… I later used this while playing cars with Lucas – we pretended to fill our cars with gas, and change the oil, use our headlights and so on… at the end of the book Sam drives his car to work – where he is a bus driver! Lucas loves that part!

Fire Truck By Peter Sis – Neither Dominic, Lucas or I like this book. It was written by a father for his son who loves fire trucks, I can imagine some kids may enjoy this book… but I found the pictures were boring, and the text had no rhythm or story value to it.

How will you get there maisy? by Lucy Cousins – another book we weren’t too fond of. This was a lift the flap book which the kids usually enjoy, but the way the story was written was just not engaging for us at all. Other then the one time we read it together, I don't think it left our book basket all week.

 

Freight Train & Flying by Donald Crews – for anyone who has been reading my blog you know of my love for Donald Crews and his books! The pictures are always clear, colourful and crisp! and the text is short, simple, and engaging!

Read to me!

We have joined the read to me challenge that is being hosted by the blog There's a Book. We have joined at two different levels, for Lucas we will be doing the “harvesting level” – which has a goal of me reading 200 books to Lucas and for Dominic he will be doing “early reader” – which has a goal of Dominic reading 120 books independently.

For a family that loves books as much as we do, I am not sure this will be much of a challenge : )  But it will be nice to document our reading and rate the books on how the kiddies like them!