Kit theme: HOMES
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Book titles included:
1. Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs by Linda Ashman
2. Jack and Jill’s Treehouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards
3. Henry Builds a Cabin by D. B. Johnson
4. Let’s Go Home by Cynthia Rylant
5. Soft House by Jane Yolen
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DVD: Stories for the Very Young, Volume 1
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CD & Book: A House is a House for Me
Additional titles available at the Johnson County Library:
Home on the Range by Brian Ajhar
Home by Jeannie Baker
The Great Blue House by Kate Banks
The Little House by Virginia Burton
Ten in a Bed by Jane Cabrera
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Flora’s Surprise by Debi Gliori
A Very Special House by Ruth Krauss
Is This a House for Hermit Crab? by Megan McDonald
Home Sweet Home by Jean Marzollo
Bunny Bungalow by Cynthia Rylant
So Sleepy Story by Uri Shulevitz
See the back for activities to help children with these 6 by 6 Ready to Read early literacy areas:
Have Fun With Books
Notice Print
Talk, Talk, Talk
Tell Stories
Look for Letters
Take Time to Rhyme
Activity Ideas – Homes
Address. Help your child learn your address and phone number. Print your address on an
envelope with mother/father’s name. This activity helps them “Notice Print Everywhere” by
developing an awareness of how print is used and that print is important in everyday life.
What’s In The House? Write a list of all the rooms in your house, then have your child say the
first object that comes to mind in each room. You do the same. Compare the lists and talk
about the differences. This obviously develops a child’s vocabulary, but can also build higherlevel imagery skills. It’s important to have a good imagination when you “Have Fun With
Books!”
Note the different kinds of houses in these books, especially in A House is a House for Me. Can
you think of other types of homes? Talk about the different objects and furnishings you see in
the pictures. Match the names of the rooms in Let’s Go Home with the rooms in your own house.
The more words children know, the easier it will be for them to recognize words the first time
they see them in print.
Here is a Beehive
Here is a beehive.
(make a fist)
But where are all the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch them come creeping
Out of their hives.
1,2,3,4,5.
(slowly lift fingers up as you count)
Bzzzzzzzzzz.
(wiggle fingers & fly them away)
Here Is a Nest for a Robin
(from: I’m a Little Teapot by Jane Cobb)
Here is a nest for a robin.
(cup hands)
And here is a hive for a bee.
(make a fist)
Here is a hole for a bunny rabbit.
(thumb & forefinger make circle)
And here is a house for me.
(fingertips together make roof over head)
My Little Turtle
This is my little turtle
(make a fist)
He lives alone in a shell.
He likes his little home.
He thinks it’s really swell.
He pokes out his head
(poke out thumb)
When he wants to eat.
Then he pulls it back in
(hide thumb in fist)
When he wants to sleep.
(adapted traditional)