Some Reading Recommendations for Four-Year-Olds

Two categories of books that seem to closely match the developmental interests and needs of children at this age: the adventuresome and the reassuring.

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Horton Hears a Who….Do You?

This week our whole school is reading Horton Hears A Who ( as I’m sure many of you are too) in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday month and “Read-Across-America” and the release of the new animated feature film by the same name, which our small school will attend en masse on Friday – phew!
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