MY FIRST READING BOOKS

Emma wakes up early in the morning and finds that all her friends are busy helping to prepare the street party. She helps Daddy, Andy and Julie to make the kites and plays all the games with her friends. This way, she soon learns that comparing can be fun. To win the Musical Chairs game she has to run faster than all the other children and that her kite can fly higher than the rooftops and as high as her friend s kite. Ilustrador: Montserrat Tobella.

Helen likes learning new things all the time andDaddy?s friend Peter shows her that you don?t always need alaboratory to learn. All you have to do is observe the thingsaround you and watch how they change and transform. By observingand deducing, Helen learns what happens to waterwhen we freeze it, what happens to ice when we heat it andwhere the juice we drink comes from.

Pets are special friends. Jamie has lots of fun playing with his little dog Bobby but he knows that he has to be responsible and keep him clean, well fed and healthy. Jamie s uncle is a vet and he tells Jamie how important it is to love and take good care of all animals, not only the domestic animals that live near people but the wild animals that live in freedom too.

It is Saturday, Carl, Danny and Anna are going to town with Mummy. They are taking a broken watch to the watchmaker, they want to look at some books in the bookshop and they want to buy some new shoes. Carl is happy because he knows that the following day, Sunday, he will be able to wear his new shoes and that on his day in town, he has learnt a lot about how we measure time in weeks, months, years and long or shorter periods of time. Ilustrador: Mª Teresa Ramos.

The children go on a trip to the mountains with their two monitors Colin and Cathy. Whilethey are outdoors they learn how to identify the differentshapes and sizes of the things they see around them. The pathsare long and they bend, the sun is a big circle in the sky, theirtents look like small triangles when they observe them fromthe mountain top and even the clouds have different shapes.Maybe you have seen animal shapes and different objects flyingin the sky too.

Carly is drawing a picture of her doll Suzy in her red and white striped dress when she discovers that her red pencil is not in her pencil box. When she finds it, she realizes the importance of taking good care of personal belongings by keeping them clean and tidy in a safe place for when she wants to use them again.

A big box arrives at David and Sarahs home and the children soon learn that it contains Sarahs new bed. While Mummy and Daddy are assembling the bed, the children discover a new, fun way of making their own toys and learn the importance of reusing and recycling to help protect the natural environment.

On the way to the park, Paul wants to help Lisa but he is far too small to carry her heavy bag. In the park, they play a game, Lisa lets him touch and guess what she has in her bag. Paul discovers that everything we use and see, not only has a name, but is different in size, shape and texture too. Lisa s bag is big and heav y, the skipping rope is long and flexible, the branches on the trees are long and rough, they all have their own special characteristics.