Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Saturday, December 30, 2023

"See and Read" Series

I'm always on the lookout for excellent early reader book sets to invest in for our school. I've written before about The Magic Belt series for those kids who crave fantasy (and the progressively harder sets that come after that, which continue the adventures of Zak and Finn). For kids who prefer nonfiction, I love vintage Science I CAN READ / Nature I CAN READ books.

Now I have a new oldie-but-a-goodie series to add to the list!

Today Zac was reading Picta the Painted Turtle by Virginia Frances Voight -- which is the perfect level for him -- and I realized that the front of the book said "A SEE and READ Beginning to Read Book."


Aha! Time to track down the other titles in this 1960's series. Here's what I've found so far:


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Friday, April 21, 2023

Dining Through the Decades

I just stumbled upon Sage Lilleyman's YouTube channel and it is so sweet and adorable. It is very calming to watch her show how people lived back in the day, and she has a charming Australia accent. Watching her really makes me want to keep my kitchen (and my house) 1950's instead of updating it!

If you aren't familiar with her Dining Through the Decades series, here are the recipes:

Season One


Season Two


Season Three


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Friday, February 14, 2020

Science I CAN READ Books

I love buying books for the classroom soooo much! Today, in fact, was the big unveiling of our brand-new 22 volume World Book Encyclopedia 2018.


I've also been beefing up my collection of early readers. Many years ago I got Jason and the Bees by Brom Hoban. This is a Nature I CAN READ book. Recently I became curious about other similar vintage titles and discovered more Nature I CAN READ as well as a whole series of Science I CAN READ books, all of which I've been purchasing. I have also found a bit of historical fiction for this age group. And I found Prove It!, a wonderful early reader book of Science Experiments, which we've been working our way through in Science Club. After we finish it, I can put it on the shelf and the children who are a part of our club will have fun reading it and revisiting the experiments.

So, here are some early reader titles I recommend. As you can tell, I do like the vintage ones! I think they are much better than many modern titles!


Science I CAN READ series


Nature I CAN READ series


Additional Suggestions


Of course, we all love and deeply cherish Frog and Toad and Sammy the Seal and Uncle Elephant and Small Pig and so on... but I wanted to share some more titles I've found that my students really enjoyed. I hope it is helpful!


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