Miss. Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

Title: Miss. Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

Author: Joseph Slate

Illustrator: Ashley Wolf

Award(s):

ABC Children's Booksellers Choices Award, 1997 Winner Picture Books United States

Blue Hen Book Award, 1997 Winner Delaware

Reading level/ Lexile Level: 590L

 Genre: Picture Book

Synopsis:

Miss. Bindergarten Get Ready for Kindergarten is a great way to introduce the beginning of kindergarten to preschool children. In addition to being a picture book showing how Miss. Bindergarten gets ready for her students, it is also an alphabet book, as each child name covers a letter of the alphabet. Through out the book it is showing each child’s reaction to kindergarten.

Activities: 

1. Here is a read aloud of the book -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC7v4xzpGf4

2. This website gives all different activities to use in the classroom- http://www.thevirtualvine.com/msbindergarten.html

Reference:

Slate, J. (1996). Miss Bendergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten. New York, NY: Penguin.