A place called Kindergarten

Great book to introduce kindergartners what they might be learning through out the year. Has lots of detailed pictures.

This is a precious book about a boy going to Kindergarten for the first time. His barn animals were wondering why Tommy hasn't come to visit them at the same time as usal. When Tommy got home he was able to teach the animals all that he learned at school that day.

A place called Kindergarten is a great book to learn about animals and the beginning of the alphabet. The animals in the barn are all worried when Tommy does not come at his normal time to talk to the animals in the barn. They find out he went to a place called Kindergarten. All the animals are in

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a tizzy wondering where and what is Kindergarten. At the end of the day a big yellow school bus brings Tommy home and Tommy explains to the animals that he learned a new song and started learning his ABC's.

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This is an excellent book to ease children into Kindergarten. The main character, Tommy, lives on a farm and takes care of his animals. This demonstrates responsibility, even though he is just a young boy. Tommy loves the animals, and the animals love Tommy, which young children can relate to by

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having pets of their own. When the animals discuss how Tommy never showed up one day, this relates to the scary feeling that many children may feel when learning they are going to Kindergarten. After Tommy comes home and is even more helpful and responsible to the animals by showing him what he learned in school, this is excellent for children to relate. This book allows children’s fears of going to Kindergarten to be vanished by seeing how happy everyone is in the end, and also that just because they are gone for a few hours, they will always return home and things will be the same, if not, better! The idea of school is put into a positive perspective, as in the end everyone is benefitting from Tommy going to school, because the animals are happy to learn what Tommy was taught throughout the school day.

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I did like this book a lot. I think that it teaches a couple of things, such as different sounds for animals and also some words that are associated with the first couple of letters in the alphabet. I would read this to a classroom because of the lessons that if teaches.