Kindergarten Summer Reading List - Lakeside Christian School

Summer Reading Required Assignment
Summer Reading
Kindergarten
Incoming kindergarten students have one required reading (parent read aloud): The
Very Hungry Caterpillar, written by Eric Carle. Please read this book immediately prior
to the start of school so the story is fresh in the minds of our students. Fun activities will
occur in the classroom.
Turn this list in the first week of school.
Child’s Name: _________________________________________________
Reading Log
Author Title Parent’s Initials
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Alpha Oops!: The Day Z Went First, Alethea Kontis.
Chaos ensues when “z” thinks that it is time to go first in the alphabet for a change.
Bee Bim Bop, Linda Sue Park.
A young girl, eager for a favorite meal, helps her mother with shopping, food preparation,
and table setting. Presented in rhyming verse with illustrations.
Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! Geoffrey Hayes.
Siblings Benny and Penny encounter trouble when curiosity about a mysterious neighbor
leads them into unexpected adventures. A 2010 Geisel Award Medal winner.
Black? White! Day? Night!: A Book of Opposites, Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
A series of colorful die-cut pages that introduces a number of things that are opposites
including black and white, big and little, and day and night.
Bootsie Barker Bites, Barbara Bottner.
Bootsie Barker only wants to play games in which she bites, until one day her friend
comes up with a better game.
Clancy the Courageous Cow, Lachie Hume.
Clancy the cow is a misfit in his herd, but when he proves himself in the annual cowwrestling
match, he demonstrates the foolishness of judging by appearances.
Earth’s Water Cycle, Amy Bauman.
Simple text, facts, photographs, diagrams, and related activities describe the water cycle
and explain how it affects Earth.
First the Egg, Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
Simple words and paintings create a jewel-like package that introduces the age-old
chicken-and-egg riddle for the youngest reader. A 2008 Caldecott Honor book and 2008
Geisel Award Honor book.
Fred Stays with Me, Nancy Coffelt.
Fred the dog goes with his young mistress to both mom’s and dad’s houses, wreaking
havoc at both. “Fred can’t stay here,” say both parents, but his young owner says
emphatically, “Fred stays with me.”
The Growing Story, Ruth Krauss.
A little boy worries throughout the summer that he is not getting bigger, but at the end of
the season, he tries on his winter clothes and realizes that he has grown.
Hurty Feelings, Helen Lester.
Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant, on
the soccer field.
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I Spy Fly Guy! Arnold Tedd.
Fly Guy and his pal Buzz are back in a fresh beginner chapter book. A disastrous ending
to a game of hide and seek finds Fly Guy hauled away to the local dump in this new take
on a lost pet. A 2010 Geisel Award Honor book.
In the Leaves, Luy Voun Lee.
On a visit to a farm, Xiao Ming shows his friends the new Chinese characters he has
learned by explaining that the characters are like pictures.
Little Mouse Gets Ready, Jeff Smith.
Little Mouse narrates this story with humor and excitement as he dons clothes and
dreams of adventures to come. A 2010 Geisel Award Honor book.
Mama Panya’s Pancakes: a Village Tale from Kenya, Mary Chamberlin.
Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her
son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go
around.
Max’s Words, Kate Banks.
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his
brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends, Wong Herbet Yee.
In this quiet story of friendship, artistic Mole and poetic Mouse join forces to hatch a
clever plan for watching skittish birds. They create their own book of paintings and
poems to celebrate their bird-watching adventures. A 2010 Geisel Award Honor book.
Not a Box, Antoinette Portis
To an imaginative little bunny, a box is not always just a box. A 2007 Geisel Award
Honor book.
Now & Ben: the Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Gene Barretta.
Looks at some of the many things invented by Benjamin Franklin that are still in use in
the twenty-first century.
On Earth, G. Brian Karas.
Text and illustrations relate the motions of the Earth to time, such as the year, seasons.
Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day, Kate McMullan.
In three short and simple chapters, friends Pearl and Wagner experience the hijinks and
pranks of April Fools’ Day. A 2010 Geisel Award Honor book.
Pretty Salma: a Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa, Niki Daly.
In this version of “Little Red Riding Hood,” set in Ghana, a young girl fails to heed
Granny’s warning about the dangers of talking to strangers.
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The Red Book, Barbara Lehman.
A wordless story in which a little girl finds a red book in the snow that holds an
astonishing surprise.
A Second Is a Hiccup: a Child’s Book of Time, Hazel J. Hutchins.
Playful rhyming text helps children comprehend units of time, presenting lively examples
of what can happen in the span of a second, a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a
year, and a whole childhood.
Signs for Me: Basic Sign Vocabulary for Children, Parents & Teachers, Benjamin J
Bahan.
An introductions to American Sign Language, illustrating the hand shapes for more than
250 vocabulary words, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, numbers, and
letters, each with a picture and the English word.
The Tale of Pale Male: A True Story, Jeanette Winter.
Tells the true story of two red-tailed hawks, Pale Male and Lola, who made their home
atop an apartment building in New York City and sparked a protest by those who loved
them when the apartment board had their eight-foot-wide nest, cleared away.
Wolf’s Coming! Joe Kulka.
All of the animals in the forest go into hiding because the wolf is coming, but why they
are hiding is the big surprise.
Yo, Yes! Christopher Raschka.
Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.
Yoko, Rosemary Wells.
When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats –
until one of them tries it for himself.
Zoopa: An Animal Alphabet, Gianna Marino.
A menagerie of animals converge on a bowl of soup – one for each letter of the alphabet.
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