It’s no secret that I love books!
I especially love books that help my students understand kindness, community, friendships, and teach valuable life lessons.
The follow list of books is pretty extensive back-to-school read aloud list. I don’t read these all in one day, but rather spread them out over the course of the first few weeks of school, and then re-read them as needed throughout the year.
We don’t have to be best friends or even like each other.
But we will be kind and respectful.
These books all help:
- Foster a sense of community
- Build relationships between students
- Build relationships between students and teachers
- Teach kindness
- Teach rules and expectations
- Cultivate a respect and appreciation for differences
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Friendship & Kindness
- Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun
- How Full is Your Bucket?
- The Juice Box Bully
- Each Kindness
- The Sandwich Swap
- The Name Jar
- Tacky, the Penguin
- Enemy Pie
- How to Lose All Your Friends
- Have You Filled a Bucket Today?
- The Jelly Donut Difference
- Teal
Growth Mindset
- The Energy Bus
- Your Fantastic Elastic Brain
- On a Beam of Light
- The Junkyard Wonders
- The Most Magnificent Thing
- Beautiful Oops
- What Do You Do With a Problem?
- Bubble Gum Brain
- What Do You Do With an Idea?
- I Can Handle It
- My Day is Ruined
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
- It’s Okay to Make Mistakes
Classroom Management
- Me, First
- You Get What You Get
- What If Everybody Did That?
- Too Much Glue
- Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker
- The Recess Queen
- A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue
- Listen Buddy
- It Wasn’t My Fault
- My Mouth is a Volcano
