Kristin Sterling

Exploring stems is an informational text that explains why plants have stems and what they do. It relates stems to straws and shows you that you eat stems every day. It explains how stems are around us everywhere. I liked this book because it was simple, and you could possibly connect it to another book like the pumpkin seed book. Start out with the pumpkin pumpkin book and then move into this book and go more in depth about sprouts turning into stems and what plants need to live. Because this book is mainly about stems themselves and not everything else a plant needs to live, I would use this with an experiment of putting a white flower in water that has food coloring in it, to see if the flower will use that water. It is a fun experiment to connect with this read aloud.… (más)

It’s Cloudy Today by Kristin Sterling is a great book for early readers such as first and second graders to read. It is easy to read and gives good information on clouds. It gives the students great pictures to look at. It also gives the students ideas of fun ideas for them to do the next cloudy day. They are to look at the clouds and find out what they see. The back of the book gives the students a fun activity to do. They are to take shaving cream and spray it on a table and make the different kinds of clouds they had described in the book. This would be fun and a little messy for them. It also gives different books to get related to this topic and different websites to visit.… (más)