Title 
Author
Publisher
Rudolph, the Red- Nosed Reindeer Barbara Shook Hazen 
Adapted from Robert L. May
Western Publishing 
Co., Inc  1976 
The Raffi Christmas Treasury Raffi  Crown Publishers, 
Inc.1988 
Gingerbread Man ** Peter Pan, 1981
Christmas Comes To Monster Mountain  John Barrett  Children s Press, Chicago ,1981
The Polar Express  Chris Van Allsburg  Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985
The Night Before Christmas Clement Clarke Moore Scholastic, 1989
Santa  Is Coming Noel Tennyson  Random House, NY,1981
The Little Snowman  Sheila Black Ariel Books, 1994
Who is In My Gingerbread House Christopher Santoro  Random House, 1995
Frosty, the Snowman  Annie North Bedford Golden Press, 1980
Cranberry Christmas  Warde and Harry Devlin  1976
Barnaby First Christmas A.P. Folmer  Scholastic, NY , 1989
Apple Tree Christmas Trinka  Hakes  Noble  Dial Books, 1984
The Littlest Snowman Charles Tazewell Grosset & Dunlap, 1978
 Rainbow Candles Myra Shostak  Kar-Ben Copies, 1986 
The Snowman  Raymond Briggs Random House, 1998
The Gingerbread Boy  ill. by Kathy Wilburn Grosset & Dunlap, 1993
The Snow Tree  Caroline Repchuk Dutton Children's Books 1996

Big Books

        The Learning Workshop is a great source for some wonderful taped big books.  Our children enjoyed the music and activities included in the activity packets that came in The Gingerbread Village packet.  Included in this packet  with The Gingerbread Village, was music and cards to a story called The Cookie Snatcher.  We used this story to introduce the math concept of "taking away" using cutout cookies as manipulatives.  With the cute musical lyrics,  this became an instant hit!

For questions or detailed information please send email to:
 thematic@sbcss.k12.ca.us
 

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