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Books are wonderful vehicles to help children identify, discuss, and understand many topics and concepts. Here are a few books that are used to discuss Habits of Mind and Choose Love.
Books are wonderful vehicles to help children identify, discuss, and understand many topics and concepts. Here are a few books that are used to discuss Habits of Mind and Choose Love.
Habits of Mind-Creating, Imagining, Innovating- Persisting
What If…This girl is determined to express herself! If she can't draw her dreams, she'll sculpt or build, carve or collage. If she can't do that, she'll turn her world into a canvas. And if everything around her is taken away, she'll sing, dance, and dream…Stunning mixed media illustrations, lyrical text, and a breathtaking gatefold conjure powerful magic in this heartfelt affirmation of art, imagination, and the resilience of the human spirit. Review from GoodReads
Habits of Mind: Thinking Flexibly
Frederick, the field mouse sat on the old stone wall while his four brothers gathered food for the approaching winter days. The other mice felt that Frederick was not doing his share of the work, but when the food ran out, Frederick saved the day with what he had gathered. Google Books
Habits of Mind-Creating, Imagining, Innovating
The teasing questions challenge the young rabbit, who demonstrates that a box can serve as a pirate-ship crow's nest, a hot-air balloon basket and a rocket. Portis reminds everyone (especially her adult audience) that creativity doesn't require complicated set-ups. (review from Publishers Weekly)
Demonstrating Habit of Minds: Creating, imagining, and innovating and Thinking Flexibly
“It started / with one mistake”: a drawing of a girl’s head has mismatched eyes. “But the glasses — they were a good idea”: the eyes are now masked by glasses. The pattern of mistakes followed by cover-ups continues, becoming a study in how wrong turns can be righted. The ink, colored pencil, and watercolor illustrations, featuring fine lines and amorphous black blobs, are captivating.
From the Fall 2017 issue of The Horn Book Guide.
Choose Love: Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
Choose Love: Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
by Maribeth Boelts, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones
Everyone at school has a pair of fancy high-top sneakers and Jeremy really wants a pair of his own. But what he needs, and what his grandmother can afford, are new boots for winter. A heartwarming story that teaches the value selflessness and appreciating what one has. From-An Attitude of Gratitude: 15 Books That Show Kids What It Means to Be Thankful by Dena McMurdi
Choose Love-Gratitude
Choose Love-Gratitude
Tender picture book Last Stop on Market Street, which won the 2016 Newbery Medal as well as a 2016 Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award for illustrator, is aimed at younger readers but holds valuable, uplifting life lessons for all ages. Without being heavy-handed or didactic, it teaches the value, and fun, of acceptance, generosity, appreciation, and imagination in a less than perfect world. This is a quiet book with an amazingly powerful message about learning to live comfortably amid the diversity of ordinary life. (Review by Common Sense Media)
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