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I had to stop for brevity, but this blog has awesome ocean book recommendations! https://childrenslitlove.com/2020/06/12/our-favorite-beach-books/

Canyons
In the canyon / Liz Garton Scanlon
How are canyons formed / B. J. Best
The Grand Canyon by Bauer, Marion Dane
Grand Canyon by Jason Chin
Good night, Grand Canyon N/A
Good night, Bryce Canyon N/A
SciShow kids has a Grand Canyon episode I want to show my son n/a
Tito the Tortoise: Adventures in the Grand Canyon N/A

Islands
Islands by Ellen Labrecque
The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown
The island of the Skog by Steven Kellogg
Island boy by Barbara Cooney
Pig-Boy : a trickster tale from Hawai?i by Gerald McDermott
The turtle and the island : a folktale from Papua New Guinea / story retold by Barbara Ker Wilson

Lakes
Lakes by Karen Kenney (ages 5-8)
Rivers, Lakes, and Marshes by Szymanski, Jennifer
Forget-Me-Not Lake by Green, Poppy (ages 4-8)
Little Lucy by Ilene Cooper
A Day at the Lake by Stephanie Wallingford
Jangles: A Big Fish Story by David Shannon
Hattie & Hudson by Chris Van Dusen (my boys and I LOVE his books!!!)
Me and You and the Red Canoe by by Jean E. Pendziwol (ages 5-8)

Rivers
Living beside a river / Ellen Labrecque
Rivers and Streams by Sill, Carolyn
River by Elisha Cooper
Song of the River by Joy Cowley
Turtle-Turtle and the Wide, Wide River by Hillenbrand, Jane
Tugboat Bill and the River Rescue by Brill, Calista
Over in a River: Flowing Out to the Sea (ages 3-8) by Berkes, Marianne Collins
Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River by Crampton, Gertrude

Oceans
The Fisherman and the Turtle by Eric Kimmel
Nights of the pufflings by Bruce McMillan
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas by Lynne Cox
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
The big, big sea / by Martin Waddell
Deep in the ocean / Lucie Brunelliere
Commotion in the ocean / by Giles Andreae
Hello, Ocean! / Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Fish Who Could Wish N/A

I note books I couldn’t get from our local library as “N/A” so I can see if there’s a Youtube video read-aloud version of them)

Earth’s Landforms and Bodies of Water by Natalie Hyde (ages 5-8)
Looking at landforms by Ellen mitten
Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer
Water Land: Land and Water Forms Around the World by Hale, Christy
Land and Water: Landforms & Bodies of Water by Eve Heidi Bine-Stock N/A
Geography from A to Z : a picture glossary / by Jack Knowlton
What is a landform? By Rebecca Rissman n/a
What are landforms?

Books about Mountains and Life in the Mountains:
How mountains are made by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
There's a mountain in this book by Rachel Elliot
On Call Back Mountain by Bunting, Eve
Down, Down the Mountain by Ellis Credle N/A
Up and down the Andes : a Peruvian festival tale by Laurie Krebs
The Wild Girl by Wormell, Christopher
Wee Gillis by Munroe Leaf
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant

Books About Hills and Life in the Hills:
The magic hill by A.A. Milne
The high hills / Jill Barklem
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Do the Hills Talk? By Christine Hunt Daniell N/A
Something on the Hill by Jane Kohuth
Princess Pru and the Ogre on the Hill by Fergus, Maureen

Books about Valleys:
Valleys by Ellen Labrecque
Valleys by Lisa Amstutz N/A
Valleys and canyons / by Larry Dane Brimner
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Henry, Marguerite (Chapter book; my 6 year old didn’t like it, but
it’s a classic!)
Land Before Time’s The search for the Great Valley by Jim Razzi (yes this is a dinosaur book,
but it discusses canyons and valleys and their differences) N/A
Dinosaur valley / Mitsuhiro Kurokawa
Playing in the Valley N/A
The great, beautiful valley by Anne Daw N/A
My Valley by Claude Ponti
Sophie Goes to Death Valley N/A

• link: https://youtu.be/FshhCvbFedE

We made edible landscapes with this lesson.

• link: https://pin.it/3ZuU9fu

A great introduction to this unit. the video is great. And the game reinforce the concepts of this unit.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqKTJtK_vw

Online game: http://www.purposegames.com/game/landforms-and-bodies-of-water-quiz

A great introduction to this unit. the video is great. And the game reinforce the concepts of this unit.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsqKTJtK_vw

Online game: http://www.purposegames.com/game/landforms-and-bodies-of-water-quiz