The books in this theme deal with some aspect of the physical body. Some books are about physical characteristics, others focus on what a body can do.
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My daughter wanted to read this book over and over! It uses short phrases and lively pictures of kids and families to talk about different characteristics of skin. It covers different shades of skin, that skin grows and heals, sensations, and uniqueness.
SCIENCE: Skin
SOCIAL STUDIES: Multi-culturalism, family life, community
This story starts out with a little penguin wanting a certain bedtime story. It turns out that it is the story of his mom’s upbringing by a dragon mother within a dragon community that is not very accepting of a penguin. However, the penguin saves the young dragons’ lives because she is different from them.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Adoption, appreciating differences within a community
SCIENCE: Antarctic environment, volcanoes, animal adaptations
This book tells all the things a little boy can almost do because he is nearly grown up.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Sibling relationships
LANGUAGE ARTS: Hyperbole
This book has short phrases about different things “some kids” like to do. It has really cute pictures of cartoony animal kids on photographs of real-life backgrounds.
HEALTH: Includes children with disabilities (wheelchair, Braille reading)
This story follows a boy, his dog, and some chickens over the course of a year of life on a farm. It talks about the changes happening in nature and how the animals and the boy grow.
SCIENCE: Seasonal changes, animal growth
SOCIAL STUDIES: Farm life
This board book has adorable pictures of a little boy and his teddy bear. It talks about loving all aspects, good and bad, of a child.
HEALTH: Emotions
In this book, a very self-confident pig girl tells about all of the things she likes about herself and can do for herself.
HEALTH: Self-confidence, hygiene, nutrition
In this book, a little girl compares how she looks and what she likes to the looks and likes of her parents.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Multi-cultural families, museums
This book follows a little boy throughout a whole day and tells all of the things he can do himself.
HEALTH: Getting dressed, hygiene
In this book, a 4-year-old tells about how life was when she was younger and how it is now.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Family life
Secular Home Education 