Books to Use with a Rainbow Unit
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin Jr.
Little Yellow, Little Blue by Leo Lionni
Skyfire by Frank Asch
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Elhert
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
My Crayons Talk by Patricia Hubbard (The accompanying cassette by Scholastic is really cute. My class asks for repeats all the time!)
Verdi by Janell Cannon
Elmer by David McKee
Hello Red Fox by Eric Carle
White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker
Colors Around Us by Shelley Rotner (A lift the flap riddle book)
Lunch! by Denise Fleming
M&M counting book (This was lots of fun for introducing word problems and reviewing simple shapes. As spinoff activity, we used m&ms to make rainbow graphs.)
