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Join Our New Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids

BIG NEWS!  We’re now hosting a weekly virtual book club for kids for you to join!

Looking for some book themed fun at home with the kids each week this school year?  The Virtual Book Club for Kids is excited to announce that we’re changing our format to a weekly schedule this year.  We’ll be sharing popular children’s picture books with you that includes book related activities for tons of FUN!

CLICK HERE to see our new preschool books and activity ideas for 2017-2018

Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids Activity Ideas for you to explore at home or school the basic concepts. Activities will share themed ideas for each book and basic concepts in early childhood education

Affiliate Links used for book links to Amazon

Book Themed Activities for Kids

Each MONDAY we’ll be sharing a featured book and a featured theme with book related activities for you to join along with. Our activities will focus on ages 2-5 to help you with your preschooler at home.  We’ll also add some ideas for the older kids as we know sibling activities can be a lot of fun too after school. Your organizers of the Virtual Book Club for Kids are Kristina from Toddler Approved, Cerys from Rainy Day Mum and Kim from The Educators’ Spin On It. We’ve been hosting the Virtual Book Club for 4 years along with a VBC Summer Camp for a few years too. Trust me we Love books!  We’re excited to be teaming up with many Virtual Book Club Cohosts to join us on their blogs sharing new ideas on Mondays too.  Can’t wait to share which bloggers are joining the FUN!  So much book focused content it’s going to be pretty amazing for you and your child!

Best part is that it’s all free to join!

2017-2018 Book list is NOW AVAILABLE HERE! 

VBC Members for 2016-2017 on Facebook

Join the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook Group

To help connect us and keep us accountable a bit with our book loving friends, we’ve created a facebook community for you to join.  The cost is free.  Click Here to join us!

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/weeklyVBCforkids/

Join the Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook Group

Your Organizers and CoHosts will be in the group sharing ideas each Monday to go along with the new book and new theme. Plus a few additional book recommendations and we invite you to SHARE what you’re up to with your kids and books too! You’ll get exclusive access to our chosen books ahead of time too that we’ll be featuring each month!

The group will be closed and ONLY members of the Facebook group can see what is posted in the group.

weekly featured books virtual book club for Kids

 Preschool Concepts for Kids with Book Themed Activities

We are thrilled to share with you that each week our themes and books will be focusing on all of the basic concepts of preschool that we want our little ones to be focusing on.  Concepts to be covered include the following:

  • Alphabet
  • Names
  • Pre-Writing
  • Numbers
  • Shapes
  • Colors
  • Fine Motor
  • Gross Motor
  • Cooking
  • Science
  • Sensory

Be sure to visit our participating bloggers websites to see each book activity! 

Virtual Book Club for Kids Fall Book List 2016

You can download a FREE printable of Sept/Oct 2016 Book List HERE
2017-2018 Book List AVAILABLE HERE!  

WEEKLY BOOK LIST FOR SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016-2017:

Each week starting on September 12th we will feature book inspired activities on our blogs on Mondays.

SEPTEMBER BOOKS

Sept 12- Theme: Apples

BOOK: Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss

Sept 19- Theme: Friendship

BOOK: Should I Share my Ice Cream? by Mo Willems

Sept 26- THEME: Leaves

BOOK: Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert

OCTOBER BOOKS

Oct 3- Theme: Pumpkins

BOOK: Five Little Pumpkins by Dan Yaccarino

Oct 10- Theme: Farm

BOOK: Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle

Oct 17- Theme: Spiders
BOOK: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Oct 24- Theme: Bedtime

BOOK: Time for Bed by Mem Fox

Oct 31- Theme: Owls

BOOK: Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

VBC November Book List 2016

You can download a FREE printable of Nov/Dec 2016 Book List HERE

NOVEMBER BOOKS 

Nov 7- Theme: Gratitude

Featured Book: Bear Gives Thanks by Karma Wilson

Nov 14- Theme: Dinosaurs

Featured Book: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems

Nov 21– BREAK

Nov 28- Theme: Construction

Featured Book: Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey

DECEMBER BOOKS

Dec 5- Theme: Gingerbread Man

Featured Book: The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth

Dec 12- Theme: Trains

Featured Book: The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

Dec 19- Break
Dec 26– Break

JANUARY BOOKS View the Book LIST ANNOUNCEMENT HERE 

 

You can download a FREE printable of Jan/Feb 2018 Book List HERE

January-February Book List for Virtual Book Club for Kids 2017

January Books for Kids

January 2- Theme: Winter

Featured Book: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

January 9- 
Theme: Bears

Featured Book: Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming

January 16 Theme: Kindness

The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

January 23 Theme: Penguins

Featured Book: Penguin and Pinecone by Salina Yoon

January 30 Theme: Baking

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

February Books for Kids 


February 6 Theme: Love

Featured Book:  The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond

February 13 Theme: Weather

Featured Book:  Little Cloud by Eric Carle

February 20 Theme: Forest

Featured Book:  The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

February 27 Theme: Dr. Seuss 
Dr. Seuss week-
Pick your favorite Dr. Seuss Book!

PRINT THE BOOK LIST  

March / April Virtual Book Club for Kids Book List

March 6-
Theme: Rainbows
Featured Book: A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman

March 13-
Theme: Garden
Featured Book: The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

March 20-
Theme: Boats
Featured Book: Toy Boatby Randall de Sève

March 27-
Theme: Bunnies
Featured Book: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

April 3-
Theme: Easter/Eggs/Chicks
Featured Book: Peep and Egg: I’m Not Hatching by Laura Gehl

April 10-
Theme: Airplanes
Featured Book: The Noisy Airplane Ride by Mike Downs

April 17-
Theme: Earth
Featured Book: The EARTH Book by Todd Parr

April 24-
Theme: Nursery Rhymes
Featured Book: Pick your favorite Nursery Rhymes 

PRINT THE BOOK LIST 

May VBC Books List 2017 for Preschoolers

PRINT THE BOOK LIST 

May 1 
Theme: Butterflies
Featured Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

May 8
Theme: Space
Featured Book: How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers
May 15
Theme: Pond
Featured Book: In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
May 22
Theme: Ocean
Featured Book: A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle

May 29

Theme: Shapes
Featured Book: Mouse Count by Ellen Stohl Walsh

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virtual book club for kids

HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR WEEKLY VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB FOR KIDS:

1. Start by locating the featured book for the week of September 12th and read it with your child sometime during that week! Leave a comment on this post committing to join for this month! 

Most of the books we are featuring can be found at your local library. I have provided Amazon Affiliate links for your ease as well if you want to purchase the books and add them to your home library. We will share our book lists with you now and then we’ll make sure you have the new list about a month ahead of time so you can plan (ie. you’ll get the November list at the beginning of October). We’ll be sharing additional books based on the weekly theme in our Facebook group.

2. Try out one or more of the featured activities shared by our Virtual Book Club for Kids co-hosts with your child. Activities will be posted each week on Mondays.

We will be sharing all of the featured activities over in our Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook group so that they are easy for you to find. If you haven’t joined our Facebook group yet you might want to go do it so that you won’t miss anything. I will also be linking to each activity on my weekly Monday blog post.

Weekly Virtual Book club for Kids Feature Ideas with Books

3. Post a photo or tell us about the book-inspired activity you did with your child over in the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids Facebook group.

4. (Optional) Create your own book-inspired activity using the featured book and either share it on your blog and share a link with us, or if you don’t have a blog, just share a photo with us in our Facebook group.

5. (Optional) Create your own Mommy and Me Book Club featuring the Virtual Book Club Books. Get together with friends and read the book each month and then do book-inspired activities together.

Find more details about creating a Mommy and Me Book Club HERE.

Virtual Book Club for Kids Weekly Book Themed Activities

 

Don’t forget to come back on MONDAY to see all of the featured activities shared to go along with our Weekly book- 

2017-2018 BOOK LIST AVAILABLE HERE


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About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. bubbleink says

    September 4, 2016 at 12:34 am

    Want to join in

    Reply
  2. Tammy Krauss says

    September 14, 2016 at 9:15 am

    I want to join! I requested to join the fb group. Is that all I need to do?

    Reply
  3. Stacy Hardeo says

    October 3, 2016 at 9:27 am

    Hi I would like to join the book club. Thanks!

    Reply
  4. Lisa says

    October 21, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    I am having so much fun doing this each week with my almost 3 year old! We also have a mommy and me book club we are doing monthly. Thank you so much for all of your hard work creating this! We love it!

    Reply
    • Quinn says

      July 31, 2017 at 9:58 am

      What are you doing for the mommy and me bookclub?

      Just found about the Virtual Book Club. Thinking about doing it with my 3 year old daughter. I want to do school with her at home before she goes to preschool but it hasn’t been a success. I thought what if I did a book a week for the next year before she goes to preschool? I think that would be fun learning!

      Reply
  5. Linda Kitterman says

    November 18, 2016 at 2:53 pm

    The Nov/Dec book list is the Oct/Sept book list when you click on it. Can that be fixed so I can print out the Nov/Dec book list please? Thank you so much!

    Reply
    • Kim Vij says

      November 23, 2016 at 10:32 am

      Thanks for letting me know Linda my link wasn’t working to the book list, I’ve fixed it now. Here’s the direct link to the printable list. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx8Wbs3Ayly5bHc5ZEU1REFGOEk/view

      Reply
  6. Stella says

    September 22, 2017 at 10:19 am

    I teach preschool and always looking for different books to read to my class, the monthly list and themes will be a great help. Thank you

    Reply

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