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bull Choose a YELLOW crayon and COLOR the circlespolka dots on the butterfly yellow Raise your hand when you are done

bull Choose an ORANGE crayon and COLOR the 2 squares on the butterfly orange Raise your hand when you are done

bull Choose a GREEN crayon and TRACE the hearts on the butterfly green Raise your hand when you are done

bull Choose a BLUE crayon and draw 2 antennae on top of the butterflys head Raise your hand when you are done

bull Choose a BLACK crayon and draw 2 eyes on the butterfly Raise your hand when you are done

bull Choose a PURPLE crayon and trace the 2 lines in the NIIDDLE of the butterfly WRITE the number 1 in the center Raise your hand when you are done

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2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

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12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

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Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

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Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

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Clouds

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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3 Some butterflies migrate

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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2 Happy Easter

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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3 Some butterflies migrate

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

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8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

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8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

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Clouds

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Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

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Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

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12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

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12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

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Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

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1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

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1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

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Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

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9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

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12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

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1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

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Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

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Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

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Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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1 What comes out of the chrysalis

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

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1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

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Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

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2 Yay I saw a Monarch

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

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in our backpacks copy

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

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Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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Rainbow Fish Books

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

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7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

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9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

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1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

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1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

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1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

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2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

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1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

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8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

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in our backpacks copy

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

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$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

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Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

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5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

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1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

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2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

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9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

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2 Happy Easter

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4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

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in our backpacks copy

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You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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April Writing Prompts 1 Theres a $1000 prize for the best April fools joke at school Have at

it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

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2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

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Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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rainbowsclouds recycle condensation reducedaffodils reuseevaporation

garbage shower An SUJ eI springlightning thundermud rlte~tulipsprecipitation

puddles water cycle shy

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April Writing Prompts 1 Theres a $1000 prize for the best April fools joke at school Have at

it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

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in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

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Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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garbage shower An SUJ eI springlightning thundermud rlte~tulipsprecipitation

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it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

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1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

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Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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April Word Find rainApril rainbowsclouds recycle condensation reducedaffodils reuseevaporation showergarbage springlightning thundermud tulipsprecipitation water cycle puddles

alconddaffcloudscondafevgarlighrAprilevagarmupudrairecred condensationevapprecithunApshowsprthuntuliwatcyspredreus rainbshowraimudpredaffodilsevapgarliningmuprecipuddlranre evapprecipgannuevaporationgarbageliprecrelisogjalzoIjgliztw mudvagarmupudrairecrejgjbunebmbuhgnamddibjdianedanlhin ldickbnrkjasstekeldamajerigablightningohcimykdlsgildnelaigIn dkidngklwiehdgnlcneidhgosksklglgnncioggielacbprecipitation jgugoieodpuddlesj gutyhegdfvcbxcdsewaqszxcdftrggkj iulomlp kdjrainnbhjguiyjhgtrfdecsbvhgnjkiollpkmjnhugytfighgfdcxsw whgytuthjfnbvgcfdreswsqrainbowsridkdkdlrecyclejguithbvrnd dfghytrreducereusejgkuityghjfbnvggtcredscxf1redasqwraimnd skslgieshosskdidkglgvshowermkjihuyghtfgfvcxdseawqzxsdew rfgtyukihjhuyghbnvgfterfdcslrokjiuspringjutulthundielidgxhlil theighthuthumthundembhjguityhgfredwsqazxcdftrghujyhkiljrn nbjhgyuthgfbnvhfjtithIhoyjnbgthtuldwptulipsnhgjueijdklxtulci shfurhtwa eejtwwatercyclenbjuiyuthygtrrfsdsewfwufjgnbkgitk

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April Word Find April ram

rainbowsclouds recycle condensation reducedaffodils reuseevaporation

garbage shower An SUJ eI springlightning thundermud rlte~tulipsprecipitation

puddles water cycle shy

aleonddaff~loudseondafevgarlighrAprilevagannupudraireered condensationevappreeithunApshowsprthuntuliwateyspredreus rainbshowraimudpre~affodilsevapgariiningmuprecipuddiranre

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April Writing Prompts 1 Theres a $1000 prize for the best April fools joke at school Have at

it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

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9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

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Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

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You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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April Writing Prompts 1 Theres a $1000 prize for the best April fools joke at school Have at

it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

I

Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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garbage shower An SUJ eI springlightning thundermud rlte~tulipsprecipitation

puddles water cycle shy

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April Writing Prompts 1 Theres a $1000 prize for the best April fools joke at school Have at

it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

I

Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

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slits slider shape The next day

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2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

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Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

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You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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April Word Find April ram

rainbowsclouds recycle condensation reducedaffodils reuseevaporation

garbage shower An SUJ eI springlightning thundermud rlte~tulipsprecipitation

puddles water cycle shy

aleonddaff~loudseondafevgarlighrAprilevagannupudraireered condensationevappreeithunApshowsprthuntuliwateyspredreus rainbshowraimudpre~affodilsevapgariiningmuprecipuddiranre

evappreeipgannuevaporationgarbageIiprecrelisogjaizorjgliztw ~vagannupudraireerejgjbunebmbuhgnamddibjdianedanlhin

IdickbnrkjasstekeldamajerigablightligohcimykdIsgildnelaigin dkidngklwiehdgnlcneidhgosksklgIgnncioggieIacbprecipitation jgugoieodpudq~esjgutyhegdfvebxcdsewaqszxcdfuggkjiuIomip kdjrainnbhjguiyjhgtrfdeesbvhgnjkiollpkmjnhugytfrghgfdexsw whgyfuthjfnbvgcfdreswsqrainbowsridkdkdlrecyclejguithbvmd dfghytrreducerellsejgkuityghjfbrivggteredscxflredasqwrain1nd skslgieshosskdidkgIgvshowermkj ihuyghtfgfvcxdseawqzxsdew rfgtyukihjhuyghbnvgfterfdeslmkjiuspringjutulthundielidgxhlil theighthuthumthundembhjguityhgfredwsqazxcdfughujyhkiljrn nbjhgyuthgfbnvhfjtithlhoyjnbgfhtuldwptulipsnhgjueijdkixtulci shfurhtwa eejtwwatercyclenbjuiyuthygtrrfsdsewfwufj gnbkgitk

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April Writing Prompts 1 Theres a $1000 prize for the best April fools joke at school Have at

it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

I

Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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is flying high doing spectacular work during our BUTTpoundRFLl studies

Teacher

Date

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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April Writing Prompts 1 Theres a $1000 prize for the best April fools joke at school Have at

it Then tell me what youll do with the prize money

2 Youre kayaking in the Amazon and see a butterfly thats never been seen before What does it look like Youre photograph gets published in National Geographic and you become famous Tell me about it

3 My children are the rainbows in my world Vho are some of your close friends that are the rainbows in your life and why

4 If April showers bring May flowers what do hurricanes and tornados bring

5 Some people love lightening and thunder and stormy weather Do you Why or why not

6 Tell me how youre like a butterfly egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly

7 I love to jump in puddles and walk in light misty rain Do you Tell me why and how you feel when you do it

8 Lets go play in the mud ooey gooey gloppy-sloppy mud Lets get down and get really-really dirty Tell me all about how it feels looks smells and the consequences afterwards if there are any copy

9 Youre having a sleepover with 5 of your best friends Youre in the middle of a scary movie Its storming and a lightening bolt hits a power line and knocks out the electricity Theres frantic pounding at the door and a scream outside Who could that be What do they want Tell me what happens next

I

Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

copyTeach WithMecom

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is flying high doing spectacular work during our BUTTpoundRFLl studies

Teacher

Date

Teach WithMecom

April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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I

Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

copyTeach WithMecom

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l V f6 ~ bow ~ Co tor 0 rete v

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u 1 ene t-tb S V +OPLLl TV~5--(ip 6 LL+ +D C-hanjlt=- +CJ czYlo+her st d~

copyTeach WithMecom

Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

copyTeach WithMecom

CON6R$ATULATIONS

is flying high doing spectacular work during our BUTTpoundRFLl studies

Teacher

Date

Teach WithMecom

April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterfly Punctuation Sentences

Put the correct punctuation ( ) at the end of each sentence

1 What comes out of the chrysalis

2 Yay I saw a Monarch

3 Some butterflies migrate

4 Wow Look at that caterpillar eat and eat

5 I can see the butterfly sipping nectar with her proboscis

6 Butterflies lay about 500 eggs

7 Metamorphosis takes place when the caterpillar turns into a butterfly

8 Do you want to go look for caterpillars with me

9 I like Painted Lady butterflies the best

10 What was your favorite science unit this year

Fill in the correct punctuation with a ( )

1 April showers bring May flowers

2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

copyTeach WithMecom

K~Y off

(-0 lo (s0(1 AJ~rl et-l 0

(U-+ S~ts

Cu-rnber s le+---e r s si-ud eJ -t- 5 Co t 0 l S ~lCl PfS

l V f6 ~ bow ~ Co tor 0 rete v

--- shy-~-----~

lt

0 00 ~ 0 Ul ~ middot W-N r oo

~ ~ ~O ~ mU middotQto gt

---- - ----~

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N ~ _~ ~ lt~ C ~ r---middot --~

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TeQC~ uJ ~ ~~_~e~(Oryl =~ S tc e cs cu- 0-+ scer5 lvet lVl+O 51de bLLHert)~ 5+

St-s -t-D n)~eLO tuyb e f5 t lr--He r $ ~ Shopes fo r +he 0 I pna be i- Shale y- G Ue i he-( 5+ r l p cr lA) de r tt cent rltli

5h p t) ux6e T ii 0 A t)6i d cc c c Jevdal ( pc I j aLL t s+r Ps yDU ~ n 3 L e Q I ltgt a e -- S -bmiddot) P () f p~ f e on + Irt e e Jrt J k +h e 5 m f l( Fb I de -+ f e

u 1 ene t-tb S V +OPLLl TV~5--(ip 6 LL+ +D C-hanjlt=- +CJ czYlo+her st d~

copyTeach WithMecom

Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

copyTeach WithMecom

CON6R$ATULATIONS

is flying high doing spectacular work during our BUTTpoundRFLl studies

Teacher

Date

Teach WithMecom

April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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2 Happy Easter

3 When is your spring break

4 Were going to Florida on vacation

5 Help I need a break

6 Are you going to dye Easter eggs

7 I like black jelly beans the best

8 Look Your moms tulips are coming up

9 I love how everything smells so fresh outside

10 The pussy willows look so pretty

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2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

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Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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is flying high doing spectacular work during our BUTTpoundRFLl studies

Teacher

Date

Teach WithMecom

April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

copyTeach WithMecom

CON6R$ATULATIONS

is flying high doing spectacular work during our BUTTpoundRFLl studies

Teacher

Date

Teach WithMecom

April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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Teacher

Date

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Construction paper

Scissors

Glue sticks (If you want to back with construction paper)

Run offmaster

Pre-cut slider strips

slits slider shape The next day

I Children CUT out their shape (You can mount it on a complimentary colored sheet of construction paper for more durability)

2 WRITE their name on the BACK of their slider shape 3 Children slider strip from back to front Teacher decides what

slider students will be working on (ABC 1 Shapes) 4 a whole group we use the manipulative to review the information on

5 I encourage children do it again for parents and include a note about the slider in my newsletter

6 I ask parents to their child share their slider with them It helps reinforce lessons builds and shows their child that they care about what they are learning in school

7 Since we have a slider for each theme they make a nice collection My students love collecting them

8 Sliders are a nice quick and art project that nails and report card standards in a way Its a motor skill as well

9 After my students are done with their they clean up station leave their slider the table and transition to a Tummy Tubby Time activity When is done they their slider and on our Circle ofFriends carpet

10 Depending on we insert 1 or 2 sliders and review the material as a whole group Ill have them put the shortest shape slider strip in take other sliders back to their and well review body parts (put your slider on your elbow knee wrist etc) then well use it for spatial directions (put your slider behind above beside you) Well finish up with the Slider Pokey and finally Blast Off counting from 10-0 and then go put our

in our backpacks copy

Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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Teacher

Date

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Body Part Identification Put the butterfly on your shoulder Put the butterfly on your shin bull Put the butterfly on your knee bull Put the butterfly on your elbow bull Put the butterfly on your leg bull Put the butterfly on your wrist Put the butterfly on your thigh bull Put the butterfly on your forehead bull Put the butterfly on your waist Put the butterfly on your hip bull Put the butterfly on your left hand bull Put the butterfly on your right hand bull Put the butterfly on your palm bull Put the butterfly on your head bull Put the butterfly on your heel Put the butterfly on your toes bull Put the butterfly on your foot Put the butterfly on your back bull Put the butterfly on your neck

bull Turn around bull Sit down bull Youre done bull Having fun copyTeach WithMecom

Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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Teacher

Date

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Butterfly Pokey Put your butterfly in Take your butterfly out Put your butterfly in Now you shake it all about You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly up You put your butterfly down Your put your butterfly up Now your twirl it all around You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You put your butterfly to the left You put your butterfly to the right You put your butterfly to the left Now you hide it out of sight You do the Butterfly Pokey and you tum your self around Thats what its all about

You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey You do the Butterfly Pokey Meta-MetashyMetamorphosis

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is flying high doing spectacular work during our BUTTpoundRFLl studies

Teacher

Date

Teach WithMecom

April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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Date

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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April Books My Books To Read

Butterflies 1 Born To Be A Butterfly Wallace $399 2 Butterfly Canizares $325 3 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $299 4 Buttefly Metamorphosis (A Fold-out book) Twinn $495 5 Butterflies Shapiro $399 6 Butterflies of the World (Fandex) Mikula $995 7 Caterpillar Spring Butterfly Summer Hood $1299 8 Caterpillar To Butterfly (Pop-up) Rodger $495 9 Clara Caterpillar Edwards $595 10 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 11 Good Night Sweet Butterflies Gerth $1095 12 Irsquom A Caterpillar Marzollo $399 13 Irsquom A Little Caterpillar (A pop-out puppet book) Weare $595 14 In My Garden (Pop-up book) Gill Guile $1295 15 Just A School Project Mayer $329 16 More Bugs In Boxes (Pop-up) Carter $1395 17 My Jungle Pop Up Book (Has butterflies in it) Guille $1499 18 Naturersquos Hidden World (A pop-up book) Selberg $995 19 Our Friend Sam Mayer $395 20 Percival the Plain Little Caterpillar Brawley $1495 21 Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars Tarbett $995 22 The Case of the Missing Caterpillar A First Look at the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Godwin $1495 23 The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Big Book) Carle $1495 24 Waiting For Wings Ehlert $1595 25 Watch Me Grow Butterflies Magloff $799

26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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26 Where Is Caterpillar (Lamaze interactive soft book) $695

Childrenrsquos Butterfly Books 1 A Golden Guide To Insects (Includes lots of butterfly pages) Zim amp Cottam

$995 2 A Peek-A-Boo Caterpillar $395 3 Angelina and the Butterfly Holabird $350 4 Becoming Butterflies Rockwell $595 5 Bugillions (A wobble-eye book about counting) Readerrsquos Digest $799 6 Bug Safari Barner $595 7 Bumblersquos Sweet Surprise $595 8 Butterflies Freeman $425 9 Butterflies Jeunesse $499 10 Butterflies Neye $399 11 Butterflies and Moths Hirschmann $399 12 Butterflies Coloring book Sovak 13 Butterflies in the Garden Lerner $595 14 Butterfly Express A Book About Life Cycles Moncure $595 15 Butterfly House Bunting $599 16 Butterfly Magic Getzoff $295 17 Fluttery Butterflies Lamut $495 18 From Caterpillar To Butterfly Heiligman $595 19 I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe $595 20 I Wonder WhyhellipButterflies Flutter OrsquoNeil $495 21 Little Kippers Butterfly Inkpen $495 22 Magnificent Monarch Glaser $795 23 Millions of Monarchs Roop $399 24 Monarch Butterfly Gibbons $695 25 Monarchs Lasky $895 26 Strawberry Shortcake and the Buttefly Garden Curry $399 27 Squiggly Wigglyrsquos Surprise (A finger-puppet book) Shapiro $595 28 Ten Loopy Caterpillars Cowley $295 29 The Big Butterfly Book Whayne $295 30 The Butterfly Alphabet Sandved $599 31 The Butterfly Counting Book Pallotta $549 32 The Lamb and the Butterfly Sundgaard $595 33 The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle $695 34 What Can Pinky See (A lift-the-flap book) $599 35 Zoobooks Butterflies $250

My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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My Books To Read Robins Birds

1 Birdsrsquo Nests Obolensky $399 2 If You Were A Bird Calder $795 3 Now I Know Birds Kuchalla $295 4 The New Nest Iversen $295 5 What Makes Music (Ribbon and musical sound chip) Schawartz $1075 6 Wings (A pop-up book of things that fly) Bantock $1495

Clouds

1 A Cloudy Day Nelson $295 2 clouds Baauer $399 3 Clouds (Big Book) Cutting $1495 4 It Looked Like Spilt Milk 5 Little Cloud Carle $995 6 Little Cloud (Board Book) Carle $699

Recycling 1 The Earth and I Asch $595

Spring-Seasons

1 Berenstain Bearsrsquo Rour Seasons Berenstain $399 2 Changing Seasons Graydanus $295 3 Colors Of Spring Moore $395 4 Itrsquos Spring Chanko $399 5 My World Of Color Krupinski $595 6 Splish Splash Spring Carr $495 7 Spring Changes Senisi $325 8 Spring Is Here Packard $399 9 There was a Bold Lady Who Wanted A Star Harper $495 10 When The Earth Wakes Rucki $595

Rain Puddles Ducks Mud

1 A Rainy Day Nelson $395 2 Come On Rain Hesse $395 3 Diary Of A Worm Doreen Cronin $595 4 Down comes The Rain Branley $495 5 Five Little Ducks (Big Book) Ives $1495 6 Franklin and the Thunderstorm (Sound book) $695 7 Home Sweet Home Marzollo $595 8 I Hate My Bow Wilhelm $399 9 Just A Rainy Day Mayer $295 10 Keep A Poem in Your Pocket (Big Book) $1495 11 Little White Duck

12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350

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12 Little Quack Thompson $595 13 Mud Lewison 399 14 Mud Soup Head $399 15 National Geographic Lightning $395 16 Pig Gets Stuck Amery $295 17 Puddles London $599 18 Quack amp count Baker $600 19 Rabbits amp Raindrops Arnosky $299 20 Rain Stojic $495 21 Rain Marion Dane Bauer $399 22 Rain Rain Everywhere Storm $595 23 Ruby In Her Own Time Emmett $495 24 Splish-Splashy Day Henson $325 25 Spring Rain (Big Book) $1495 26 [The sunrsquos ] Light amp Shadow (Big Book) $1495 27 This Is The Rain Schaefer $425 28 This Little Piggy Manning $795 29 Thunder Cake Polacco $595 30 Thunder amp Lightning Pfeffer $399 31 Umbrella Parade Feczko $295 32 Water Blevins $395 33 We Are A Rainbow (Big Book) Tabor $1495 34 Weather Getzoff $295 35 Weather My First Learning Series $399 36 What Kind Of Weather Cerbus $249 37 What Makes The Weather Palazzo $350

Bunny Easter Books 1 A Tale Of Tails MacPherson $1295 2 Bunny Day $399 3 Easter Egg Hunt (A Pop-Up Book) Westcott $599 4 Peter Rabbit Storybook Play Set $1499 5 The Night Before Easter Wing $349 6 What Makes the Seasons Cash $399 7 Which Way Ben Bunny (Lift-the-flap book) $795

Rainbow Fish Books

1 Rainbow Fish (Big Book) Pfister $1495 2 A Fishy story Pfister $350 3 Hidden Treasures Pfister $350 4 Lost At Sea Pfister $350 5 Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark Pfister $399 6 Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale Pfister $1895 7 Rainbow Fish Sticker Storybook Pfister $695 (2 copies) 8 The Copycat Fish Pfister $350