December 8, 2025 • 16 mins
Cindy and Alison discuss several children's books that did not exist when they were young but are valuable resources for teaching social-emotional skills and emotional regulation. Time to update your book collection? Check this episode first!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to How Preschool Teachers do It.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Cindy, I'm Alison, and we have a combined fifty
five years of experience working with children, families, and experts
in early education.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We are not random influence.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No, we are not. Whether you are new or have
been our podcast peeps since twenty eighteen, we are thrilled
you found us. High preschool peeps. Hi boobees. We are
here today with a sort of a recommendation episode. We
(00:33):
don't always do that, but we've come across some things
that we really want to make sure you all know about,
have or can get yes right. And those are some
really fantastic books that did not exist when we all
were young. Yes, and I wish that they wish they
did all right. So before we do that, though, we're
going to do our what has become traditional shout out
(00:54):
of different places where people are listening to and or
watching us.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, Yes, today we are shouting out Scotland, so hello
to all the folks there, and we are also shouting
out Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I haven't been there in years.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I've never been, and I want to go, want to.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But I've been there so long ago that it's like
I've never been there. Yeah sure, Yeah, So thank you
all for being our pot our, our what our preschool pee,
preschool peep, it's the whole name of the show. I know,
I can't our preschool, our preschool peeps.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
We're always glad to hear from you and keep listening
or watching, and you know, definitely let your friends and
neighbors know. And if you could do us a favor,
if you're not a YouTube person with this podcast, when
next time I know you're on YouTube, can you search
for our podcast and like and subscribe because that helps
our stats a whole bunch. It makes us more visible.
(01:54):
And if you're enjoying this, other people might too. Yes.
Also feel free to give us like five stars on
whatever you're on. Yeah, you know we're not going to
object to that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, just throw those stars out there for us.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, we would love that with a good review hopefully.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
All right, So we're here today to talk about books
that we wish to existed when we were young, but
they did not.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
They did, yes, So, And it started with I.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Was working with someone who wanted to earn a CDA
credential and for that credential. They have to write a
bibliography of books, so I actually get to learn about
all the new books that are out there, either through
my students or when I go to do observations and
read portfolios. And there was a couple of them that
really stood out to me. So I'm we're going to share,
(02:39):
and then Allison, of course came in with more. So
we're going to share. And I have one up on
my screen right now that I said to Alison, I
really just sort of want to get this for other
people because I love it. It's this is called The
Invisible String. It's by Patrice Karst. I hope I'm saying
that right that it's it's the message of it is
(03:01):
so beautiful. When I was a young child and I
had separation anxiety, I really struggled with this, and the
adults didn't know what to do with you, and so
they just told you, you'll be fine, go to school.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You're fine, Yeah, fine, go to school.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So here's a better message than you're fine, go to school.
So in the book, there's a mother who tells her
two children that they are all connected by an invisible string,
and the children want to know more about that, and
understand how that would be possible, and she explains to
them that the invisible string is love. That's it. I'm
(03:33):
just gonna let that sit there. I think that is beautiful. Yes,
I think it's something that even applies to my adult children,
that we are always connected by this invisible string, and
that invisible string is our love for each other. I
love that so much.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's just a beautiful way to state that, right, because
there's other books that are not as beautiful as that.
I don't well, maybe they are, I don't know. They
stated to diferent right, like about like the kissing hand,
like you're my If I kiss you in the hand,
then my love is always with you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There's that one that, but this.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
One is so it's so different, like saying that we're
all connected with string, which is there is that whole
like string theory out there that you'll find your loved
one through because you're connected through a string, and your
string might go all this way and that way, but
eventually it leads to that person.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's like how people say, this is why you have
to go through all those heartaches to find the one
that your true love. And it's okay. Because you're you'll
you'll eventually find each other because we're connected by a string.
And that's what this is kind of about, like you'll
always be connected to the ones that you love always,
whether they're here or in a different country or traveling,
(04:47):
or I'm at work and you're at school, or you've
passed away, we will still always be connected so much.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And by the way, it's part of a series. There's
like the String, but there's also The Invisible Leash, which
is out about loss of a pet, the Invisible Web,
which is about love and universal connection. I can't with
the dog, No, No, And then there's something called you
Are Never Alone an Invisible String lullaby. Oh my gosh,
(05:16):
thank you Patrice's Karst for giving us the Invisible String. Yeah, beautiful,
But there are others. That's not the only one, folks,
not the only one. So I told you I had
separation anxiety. And there's also things having to do with anxiety.
One of those books is called a Little Spot of Anxiety.
(05:37):
But there's that's also a series, right, it's.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
An entire box set. I think it's like, look at this,
I think it's like ten books and it goes through
it might even be more than ten books. I'm not
sure it goes through every emotion. I think it's like
a little spot of worry, a little spot of anxiety,
a little spot of happiness, a little spot of kindness,
and like it teaches kids, like a little bit of
any of it. You know it's normal in your emotional day, right,
(06:03):
but just.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Please go get the Little Spot of books if you
don't have them, And and so you know the age
for the invisible strings a little older. It's like pre
king up a little spot. Looking at I think there's.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Versions of this book.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Wait, i'm looking that there might be toddler.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Books.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Let me see, I'm looking so you can easily find
the box set. There's a box set of the Little
Spot Book read sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Three So this is.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Maybe a little younger. Take a look for that, a
little spot of Yeah, there's a box set.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
This book that just popped up is also a wonderful one,
but it might be for older kids. It's called what
Should Danny Do? And it goes through it starts it
around four years old. Yeah, I've read it. I think
when I was teaching kindergarten I was reading this book.
Because there's also another version of it. There's two or
three versions, but it's it goes through scenarios of like
Danny's having trouble doing something at school or got into
(07:06):
an argument with somebody at school. What should he do?
And it gives you like two choices, and the children
can vote, and then you flip to the page of
what you voted were Here's how it affected Danny's day.
And so then by the end, like if you choose
all the the calmer or more social emotional kind of solutions,
(07:28):
or you could just be like I'm just gonna be mad,
and at the end it shows like, hey, Danny had
a really rough day because he chose to be mad,
or he chose to fight the kid, or he chose
to hit him. But if he chooses all the other things,
then it's like, oh, I had a good day. It
kind of shows you, like how one decision can impact
others and also you throughout the day, which is cool
because it puts it in their hands, I think, the choices.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Which is cool. There's another set of books that I
actually saw. I was out shopping and they had it
in the store I was in. Yeah, they had it.
I'm not even gonna say, but they had it, I
don't in a very popular store, in a very popular store,
and we were waiting in line and the books were
right there, and I started picking them up and looking
(08:12):
at them, and my husband was with me, and he
was just like, wow, I love that. And they're they're
like called the Food Series. They are the Food, the Food. No,
I'm wrong, it's the Food Group book series.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I didn't know it was called that. I've read of
those books and they all are based on some sort
of food, but I didn't realize it was called that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's what they're called.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The Food.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm gonna say it again because we messed I messed
it up. The Food Group Book Series is what I'm
talking about. And the books are like this ready. There's
one called The Good Egg, another one called the Bad Seed,
another one called the Smart Cookie, The Great Escape, The
Big Cheese, the Big Cheese, The Couch Potato, the Cool Bean.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, there were that many of those books, Like I
knew about two or three.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them. But you can
also get them separately, you know, you can get them separately.
So if we go into this right, and all of
these really easily accessible, The.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Humble Guy the humble guye.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh my god, that's adorable. Oh so cute. I want
to see in the descriptions. I keep looking. If you're
on YouTube, I keep looking over this episode and the
last episode. We're using a lot of resources. Sorry, folks. Sorry,
they don't really have They don't the age group for
this one, but they look to me like, you know,
your typical early childhood. And I was recently in an
(09:39):
early childhood a childcare program, and they had the whole
series out for all the children.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, I've seen them.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, they had them all on their bookshelf. So definitely
the preschool age groups. Yeah, a game of Scones. Oh
my gosh, I know who I'm buying that for. Oh
my gosh, holy cow, I have to find this. I
should just buy the series and start handing them out
for people they apply to. Oh my gosh, I know whom.
(10:11):
I hope she's not listening right now, Allison. I'll tell
you the story later. Okay, I hope she's not listening
because I want to give it to her and have
her laugh. Oh my gosh, this is awesome. I'm keeping
this up on my screen. There are bad food group books.
There are good food group books. Oh my gosh, it's
the books based on food that teach about humans. Yes,
(10:33):
are amazing. Yeah, so please do find those right. Also,
I want to give this a shout out. While we're
talking about great books that didn't exist when I was
a classroom teacher and when my children were young, I
would like to give a giant shout out to Pete
the Cat.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I love Pete the Cat.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They are great messages.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It is great message.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
They intrigue the children, and they have important language and
literacy sound patterns that teach children to isolate sounds even
and rhythms.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah. And they have usually a song in the middle somewhere. Yeah.
But Pete the Cat. You know what else? What book
I've been using a lot recently is because we're we're
learning about rules. Is these the no David's that David
goes to Oh yeah, David, David.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Goes to school.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
One the children, it really helped them with the rules.
So like, well, he's not being a good listener, he's
not using his walking feet. And even if you've listened
to our last episode, there was a page in the
David book about being tardy to school and how that
affects them. And I had to teach a children what
tardy meant, and I'm like, that's when you're late, and
if you miss an hour of school, you miss a lot.
(11:45):
Yeah you know, so like you could tie these things
in and I've read that book before, but for whatever reason,
the class I currently have it really stuck with them.
So sometimes like some books work for some classes and
maybe not others. You just got to test them all out.
But there's so many really good ones out there.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh my gosh, so many. It's really incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Look, we're getting such a kick out of this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, I want to go back to the spot. What
was a little spot A little spot of a little
spot of books. So the Little Spot of books, please
put these on your goodness. There's a Little Spot of
(12:35):
Emotional Regulation series, a Little Spot of Feelings box set.
There's multiple box sets.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Like anger and this one goes through anger, anxiety, happiness, sadness.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
These seems from a little spot of love at.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
A little confidence and a little peaceful spot.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's my home. I'd like it to be a little
peaceful spot. These seem to be by someone named Diana Albert. Yeah, thanks,
thank you for that. Wow, it's really noble work.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Also, they have plush toys to go with all of these.
I saw the plush toys going with the food group one,
and I saw plush toys going with the spots one.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So you can get the plush toys for home or
your classroom or your program.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah. And and once I'm in here, I'm looking still
looking over to the right, because once you're in these
they they set up, of course, other recommendations for you.
There's like a little spot mix match. There's it's a
whole little spot world that it's a whole world that
really I wish was something when we were young, because
(13:40):
it's even talking about emotions no one talked to me about.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well even just naming those emotions. Like when we were kids,
they didn't name anxiety as anxiety. Like I don't remember
learning that word until I was like older in therapy. Okay,
So and that was old, okay, because like or like
maybe the definition of anxiety was like not as serious
as what we would take it now. Maybe is like, oh,
you're just a little anxiety. It's fine. No, like it's
(14:05):
a whole thing. Yeah, it's a little different than just
being a little nervous for something. It's like, no, like
this like could take over my whole day.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it's really this is like, folks.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This is me going down rabbit holes as Cindy has
gotten me out of rabbit holes before she knows.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know, the classics, the classics are really nice and all,
yeah they are, but you got to add these It's
not enough to just when I walk into programs and
their books look like it's nineteen eighty in there. It's
not enough. You have to get these newer books. They're fantastic, good,
They're fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So please do.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Think about what are some of the social struggles that
children go through and what are today's books about them? Right,
and what are some of the things that we now
know are part of the science of reading and which
children's books support that. Yes, and please put away the
books where like mean old ladies are eating children. I know,
like it's no, it's done. That's you know when you
(15:00):
watch a TV show and like, you watch a TV
show or you see a movie from like twenty years ago,
and we all look at each other and go, that
does not hold up. Why did we think this is
terrible those times? This is terrible. The true can the
same can be true for those older books. It'll be
very careful, that's true.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And I have seen teachers reading some of these books
that are much older. Yes, and it was before we
knew like the science of reading and like children's attention
spans and things like that. Some of those books are
like forty pages long and they're still reading them. You're
absolutely you know what I mean, so like and you
know the message is not good necessarily because it's from
(15:41):
a different time and back then that was fine maybe,
but not now, not now, not now, not with what
we know now.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No, not now at all. So we hope that this
has inspired you to take a look at your book collection.
Yeah right, make some decisions, and we're gonna let you
go do that, Yes, and we are going to get
ready to think about what will our.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Cindy, I'm Alison, and we have a combined fifty
five years of experience working with children, families, and experts
in early education.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We are not random influence.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No, we are not. Whether you are new or have
been our podcast peeps since twenty eighteen, we are thrilled
you found us. High preschool peeps. Hi boobees. We are
here today with a sort of a recommendation episode. We
(00:33):
don't always do that, but we've come across some things
that we really want to make sure you all know about,
have or can get yes right. And those are some
really fantastic books that did not exist when we all
were young. Yes, and I wish that they wish they
did all right. So before we do that, though, we're
going to do our what has become traditional shout out
(00:54):
of different places where people are listening to and or
watching us.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, Yes, today we are shouting out Scotland, so hello
to all the folks there, and we are also shouting
out Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I haven't been there in years.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I've never been, and I want to go, want to.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
But I've been there so long ago that it's like
I've never been there. Yeah sure, Yeah, So thank you
all for being our pot our, our what our preschool pee,
preschool peep, it's the whole name of the show. I know,
I can't our preschool, our preschool peeps.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
We're always glad to hear from you and keep listening
or watching, and you know, definitely let your friends and
neighbors know. And if you could do us a favor,
if you're not a YouTube person with this podcast, when
next time I know you're on YouTube, can you search
for our podcast and like and subscribe because that helps
our stats a whole bunch. It makes us more visible.
(01:54):
And if you're enjoying this, other people might too. Yes.
Also feel free to give us like five stars on
whatever you're on. Yeah, you know we're not going to
object to that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, just throw those stars out there for us.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, we would love that with a good review hopefully.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
All right, So we're here today to talk about books
that we wish to existed when we were young, but
they did not.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
They did, yes, So, And it started with I.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Was working with someone who wanted to earn a CDA
credential and for that credential. They have to write a
bibliography of books, so I actually get to learn about
all the new books that are out there, either through
my students or when I go to do observations and
read portfolios. And there was a couple of them that
really stood out to me. So I'm we're going to share,
(02:39):
and then Allison, of course came in with more. So
we're going to share. And I have one up on
my screen right now that I said to Alison, I
really just sort of want to get this for other
people because I love it. It's this is called The
Invisible String. It's by Patrice Karst. I hope I'm saying
that right that it's it's the message of it is
(03:01):
so beautiful. When I was a young child and I
had separation anxiety, I really struggled with this, and the
adults didn't know what to do with you, and so
they just told you, you'll be fine, go to school.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You're fine, Yeah, fine, go to school.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
So here's a better message than you're fine, go to school.
So in the book, there's a mother who tells her
two children that they are all connected by an invisible string,
and the children want to know more about that, and
understand how that would be possible, and she explains to
them that the invisible string is love. That's it. I'm
(03:33):
just gonna let that sit there. I think that is beautiful. Yes,
I think it's something that even applies to my adult children,
that we are always connected by this invisible string, and
that invisible string is our love for each other. I
love that so much.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's just a beautiful way to state that, right, because
there's other books that are not as beautiful as that.
I don't well, maybe they are, I don't know. They
stated to diferent right, like about like the kissing hand,
like you're my If I kiss you in the hand,
then my love is always with you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
There's that one that, but this.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
One is so it's so different, like saying that we're
all connected with string, which is there is that whole
like string theory out there that you'll find your loved
one through because you're connected through a string, and your
string might go all this way and that way, but
eventually it leads to that person.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It's like how people say, this is why you have
to go through all those heartaches to find the one
that your true love. And it's okay. Because you're you'll
you'll eventually find each other because we're connected by a string.
And that's what this is kind of about, like you'll
always be connected to the ones that you love always,
whether they're here or in a different country or traveling,
(04:47):
or I'm at work and you're at school, or you've
passed away, we will still always be connected so much.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And by the way, it's part of a series. There's
like the String, but there's also The Invisible Leash, which
is out about loss of a pet, the Invisible Web,
which is about love and universal connection. I can't with
the dog, No, No, And then there's something called you
Are Never Alone an Invisible String lullaby. Oh my gosh,
(05:16):
thank you Patrice's Karst for giving us the Invisible String. Yeah, beautiful,
But there are others. That's not the only one, folks,
not the only one. So I told you I had
separation anxiety. And there's also things having to do with anxiety.
One of those books is called a Little Spot of Anxiety.
(05:37):
But there's that's also a series, right, it's.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
An entire box set. I think it's like, look at this,
I think it's like ten books and it goes through
it might even be more than ten books. I'm not
sure it goes through every emotion. I think it's like
a little spot of worry, a little spot of anxiety,
a little spot of happiness, a little spot of kindness,
and like it teaches kids, like a little bit of
any of it. You know it's normal in your emotional day, right,
(06:03):
but just.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Please go get the Little Spot of books if you
don't have them, And and so you know the age
for the invisible strings a little older. It's like pre
king up a little spot. Looking at I think there's.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Versions of this book.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Wait, i'm looking that there might be toddler.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Books.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Let me see, I'm looking so you can easily find
the box set. There's a box set of the Little
Spot Book read sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Three So this is.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Maybe a little younger. Take a look for that, a
little spot of Yeah, there's a box set.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
This book that just popped up is also a wonderful one,
but it might be for older kids. It's called what
Should Danny Do? And it goes through it starts it
around four years old. Yeah, I've read it. I think
when I was teaching kindergarten I was reading this book.
Because there's also another version of it. There's two or
three versions, but it's it goes through scenarios of like
Danny's having trouble doing something at school or got into
(07:06):
an argument with somebody at school. What should he do?
And it gives you like two choices, and the children
can vote, and then you flip to the page of
what you voted were Here's how it affected Danny's day.
And so then by the end, like if you choose
all the the calmer or more social emotional kind of solutions,
(07:28):
or you could just be like I'm just gonna be mad,
and at the end it shows like, hey, Danny had
a really rough day because he chose to be mad,
or he chose to fight the kid, or he chose
to hit him. But if he chooses all the other things,
then it's like, oh, I had a good day. It
kind of shows you, like how one decision can impact
others and also you throughout the day, which is cool
because it puts it in their hands, I think, the choices.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Which is cool. There's another set of books that I
actually saw. I was out shopping and they had it
in the store I was in. Yeah, they had it.
I'm not even gonna say, but they had it, I
don't in a very popular store, in a very popular store,
and we were waiting in line and the books were
right there, and I started picking them up and looking
(08:12):
at them, and my husband was with me, and he
was just like, wow, I love that. And they're they're
like called the Food Series. They are the Food, the Food. No,
I'm wrong, it's the Food Group book series.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I didn't know it was called that. I've read of
those books and they all are based on some sort
of food, but I didn't realize it was called that.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's what they're called.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
The Food.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm gonna say it again because we messed I messed
it up. The Food Group Book Series is what I'm
talking about. And the books are like this ready. There's
one called The Good Egg, another one called the Bad Seed,
another one called the Smart Cookie, The Great Escape, The
Big Cheese, the Big Cheese, The Couch Potato, the Cool Bean.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Yeah, there were that many of those books, Like I
knew about two or three.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them. But you can
also get them separately, you know, you can get them separately.
So if we go into this right, and all of
these really easily accessible, The.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Humble Guy the humble guye.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh my god, that's adorable. Oh so cute. I want
to see in the descriptions. I keep looking. If you're
on YouTube, I keep looking over this episode and the
last episode. We're using a lot of resources. Sorry, folks. Sorry,
they don't really have They don't the age group for
this one, but they look to me like, you know,
your typical early childhood. And I was recently in an
(09:39):
early childhood a childcare program, and they had the whole
series out for all the children.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, I've seen them.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, they had them all on their bookshelf. So definitely
the preschool age groups. Yeah, a game of Scones. Oh
my gosh, I know who I'm buying that for. Oh
my gosh, holy cow, I have to find this. I
should just buy the series and start handing them out
for people they apply to. Oh my gosh, I know whom.
(10:11):
I hope she's not listening right now, Allison. I'll tell
you the story later. Okay, I hope she's not listening
because I want to give it to her and have
her laugh. Oh my gosh, this is awesome. I'm keeping
this up on my screen. There are bad food group books.
There are good food group books. Oh my gosh, it's
the books based on food that teach about humans. Yes,
(10:33):
are amazing. Yeah, so please do find those right. Also,
I want to give this a shout out. While we're
talking about great books that didn't exist when I was
a classroom teacher and when my children were young, I
would like to give a giant shout out to Pete
the Cat.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I love Pete the Cat.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They are great messages.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
It is great message.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
They intrigue the children, and they have important language and
literacy sound patterns that teach children to isolate sounds even
and rhythms.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah. And they have usually a song in the middle somewhere. Yeah.
But Pete the Cat. You know what else? What book
I've been using a lot recently is because we're we're
learning about rules. Is these the no David's that David
goes to Oh yeah, David, David.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Goes to school.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
One the children, it really helped them with the rules.
So like, well, he's not being a good listener, he's
not using his walking feet. And even if you've listened
to our last episode, there was a page in the
David book about being tardy to school and how that
affects them. And I had to teach a children what
tardy meant, and I'm like, that's when you're late, and
if you miss an hour of school, you miss a lot.
(11:45):
Yeah you know, so like you could tie these things
in and I've read that book before, but for whatever reason,
the class I currently have it really stuck with them.
So sometimes like some books work for some classes and
maybe not others. You just got to test them all out.
But there's so many really good ones out there.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh my gosh, so many. It's really incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Look, we're getting such a kick out of this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, I want to go back to the spot. What
was a little spot A little spot of a little
spot of books. So the Little Spot of books, please
put these on your goodness. There's a Little Spot of
(12:35):
Emotional Regulation series, a Little Spot of Feelings box set.
There's multiple box sets.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Like anger and this one goes through anger, anxiety, happiness, sadness.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
These seems from a little spot of love at.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
A little confidence and a little peaceful spot.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
That's my home. I'd like it to be a little
peaceful spot. These seem to be by someone named Diana Albert. Yeah, thanks,
thank you for that. Wow, it's really noble work.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Also, they have plush toys to go with all of these.
I saw the plush toys going with the food group one,
and I saw plush toys going with the spots one.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So you can get the plush toys for home or
your classroom or your program.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah. And and once I'm in here, I'm looking still
looking over to the right, because once you're in these
they they set up, of course, other recommendations for you.
There's like a little spot mix match. There's it's a
whole little spot world that it's a whole world that
really I wish was something when we were young, because
(13:40):
it's even talking about emotions no one talked to me about.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well even just naming those emotions. Like when we were kids,
they didn't name anxiety as anxiety. Like I don't remember
learning that word until I was like older in therapy. Okay,
So and that was old, okay, because like or like
maybe the definition of anxiety was like not as serious
as what we would take it now. Maybe is like, oh,
you're just a little anxiety. It's fine. No, like it's
(14:05):
a whole thing. Yeah, it's a little different than just
being a little nervous for something. It's like, no, like
this like could take over my whole day.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, it's really this is like, folks.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This is me going down rabbit holes as Cindy has
gotten me out of rabbit holes before she knows.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know, the classics, the classics are really nice and all,
yeah they are, but you got to add these It's
not enough to just when I walk into programs and
their books look like it's nineteen eighty in there. It's
not enough. You have to get these newer books. They're fantastic, good,
They're fantastic.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So please do.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Think about what are some of the social struggles that
children go through and what are today's books about them? Right,
and what are some of the things that we now
know are part of the science of reading and which
children's books support that. Yes, and please put away the
books where like mean old ladies are eating children. I know,
like it's no, it's done. That's you know when you
(15:00):
watch a TV show and like, you watch a TV
show or you see a movie from like twenty years ago,
and we all look at each other and go, that
does not hold up. Why did we think this is
terrible those times? This is terrible. The true can the
same can be true for those older books. It'll be
very careful, that's true.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
And I have seen teachers reading some of these books
that are much older. Yes, and it was before we
knew like the science of reading and like children's attention
spans and things like that. Some of those books are
like forty pages long and they're still reading them. You're
absolutely you know what I mean, so like and you
know the message is not good necessarily because it's from
(15:41):
a different time and back then that was fine maybe,
but not now, not now, not now, not with what
we know now.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
No, not now at all. So we hope that this
has inspired you to take a look at your book collection.
Yeah right, make some decisions, and we're gonna let you
go do that, Yes, and we are going to get
ready to think about what will our.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Next stepisode would be.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
We hope you will come back for it, and thank
you for being some of our preschool peeps. Encourage other
people to be check us out on YouTube, like and subscribe.
Go to how preschool Teachers do It on Facebook. I also,
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get a lot of posts and things and resources and stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I have a Facebook page, but it's all about my dog.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Okay, But if you want to dog my dog and
all the field trips you take, yeah, then go to
alis and uh and also what did I leave out?
I'll tell you website How preschool Teachers do it dot com.
QR code is up right now on YouTube. Yeah, right
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