The exciting thing about these books is that they are all related to the Australian Curriculum, which really makes them easy to fit in with your planning.
So if you are not an Aussie teacher I will apologise in advance as some of this may not apply to you, I will also forgive you for not reading any further :)
If you are a long time reader then you will know I teach Grade 2 and Grade 3 this year so I was so excited to see both Grade levels in this little surprise.
Let me say that I have been struggling with teaching an area of Geography in Grade 3, the standard that talks about the feelings people have about places and this book just rescued me. Seriously it has everything I will need including web links, blackline masters, background information and extension activities or further studies. Last week we looked at the poem by Dorothea MacKellar, "My Country" and I was able to use so many ideas from the book, even better so many of my kids were able to dig quite deeply in to the poem and understand how she felt about Australia. I really loved it and we will definitely be using this book for the rest of this term and going into next term.
I actually used some of the Poems for Grade 3-4 with my Grade 2's last week as well. I did have to adjust the activity a little but they were still able to complete the task without any problems. We looked at Onomatopeia in poems and they created one for themselves.
I haven't had an opportunity to use the Grade 2 History book yet but my teaching partners were oohing and aahing and already making plans for next year.
Let me show you just a quick peek inside so you can see what I mean.
If you want to check out some of their other Australian Curriculum resources just head over to their website here
Disclosure: These books were provided for an unbiased review.