From Maple Tree to Syrup by Melanie Mitchell

The information provided is nevertheless accurate and helpful this is a great science text for a beginning reader. It delivers big, simple words in large font at one or two sentences per page and is illustrated by big, bright photographs.

Freeman (copyright 1999) is a good, basic tree identification book. Out of the four we reviewed, we recommend two titles highly and the remaining two with reservation. May it inspire your family reading, your family activities, or even your homeschool curriculum this year!įirst, for the youngest listeners and readers, there are picture books about the science and process of making maple syrup. And, for many, whether we school at school or home, a time to sit down and make a study of something that interests us.įrom picture books about sugaring in the olden days to modern how-to manuals for kids, children’s literature on maple syrup making is prolific, varied, and fun! So, in honor of the back-to-school season, we give you a review of ten children’s books about maple for our youngest readers and listeners. Returning to a sports team or picking up a new instrument. Seeing old schoolmates and meeting new ones. It’s a time for returning and regrouping as well as starting fresh. Plans for ingress and egress from school are being finalized, bedtimes are being reviewed, and, having just finished making sure everyone has enough in the way of pants, you are already generating the list of who needs what items of wet- and cold-weather outerwear for their biweekly half-day outdoor education program. The newly-purchased sneakers are pristine. In those households whose children school at school, the laundry has been processed, the mending pile is shrinking, and first-day outfits are being picked out of the proceeds. It’s back to school time! You can tell by the chill in the evenings, the frenetic energy in your youthful household, and by how few pair of sneakers are left in boys size 5 at the local sporting goods store. From picture books about sugaring in the olden days to modern how-to manuals for kids, children’s literature on maple syrup making is prolific, varied, and fun!

From Maple Tree to Syrup by Melanie Mitchell