HUGE BOOK HAUL FOR CLASSROOM LIBRARY! | Building a Diverse Classroom Library

Welcome to today's video! My name is Kim and I'm a second year fourth grade teacher in West Michigan as well as a teaching and lifestyle vlogger. In today's video, I am sharing a MASSIVE book haul of picture books and early readers for my classroom library. I love building my library and finding great deals. I bought books from the following websites:

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BOOKS SHOWN (in no particular order):
○ Nothing Rhymes with Orange by Adam Rex
○ Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights by Sanders/Schorr
○ Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year by Carolyn Otto
○ Fireboat by Maria Kaiman
○ Mary had a Little Glam
○ Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks by Slade/Cabrera
○ Sisters & Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Bryant/Cooper
○ Down, Down, Down by Jenkins
○ Goyangi Means Cat by McDonnell/Johnson/Fancher
○ Abuela by Dorros/Kleven
○ Fearless Mary by Charles/Almon
○ Islandborn by Diaz/Espinosa
○ I am Perfectly Designed by Brown/Brown/Syed
○ We Came to America by Ringgold
○ Lillian's Right to Vote by Winter/Evans
○ Mae's First Day of School by Berube
○ Ballots for Belva by Bardhan-Quallen/Martin
○ I Love My Hair by Tarpley/Lewis
○ Bilal Cooks Daal by Saaed/Syed
○ Vegetables in Underwear by Chapman
○ The Story of Civil Rights by Mara
○ Red Pandas by Marsh
○ Snow Day! by Ransom/Meza
○ Turkeys Strike Out and other fun facts by Eliot/Spurgeon
○ If Polar Bears Disappeared by Williams
○ Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets by Khan/Amini
○ Patrol by Myers/Grifalconi
○ Rosa's Bus by Kittinger/Walker
○ Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Nivola
○ Nya's Long Walk by Park/Pinkney
○ Game Changers by Cline-Ransome
○ Kenya's Art by Trice/Mitchell
○ Green is a Chile Pepper by Thong/Parra
○ Home for Chinese New Year by Wei Jie/Xu Can
○ Ming's Adventure in the Forbidden City by Li Jian
○ Me and my Family Tree by Sweeney/Trithart
○ Santiago Stays by Dominguez

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[mr.kylecohen]

ALL THE BOOKS. Goal of this summer: intentionally build an inclusive and diverse library. Appreciate this!!!

[totallyelementary]

I love this haul of diverse books. I love your videos which inspired to start my own teacher YouTube as the journey of a black male educator. I will definitely be checking out those websites and ordering some of the books. Thanks for sharing this haul!! Good Luck on the upcoming year.

[CatAndrina]

I wish I had the book, "I Love My Hair" when I was a child. I spent most of my childhood walking around with a towel on my head wishing I had long hair...lol! I hope you find a planner that you love. I'm on the hunt for a good planner as well. Sending love your way always!

[nyawind]

Thank you for staying true to who you are. You're using your platform to make others aware of relevant issues to this community. It's young teachers that will move mountains to make a change for students that face discrimination every day. You've officially won my subscription for life <3

[hannahgracehatley]

Hello! I am a little late to watch this video, but if you haven't already picked a planner I love my teacher planner from The Happy Planner! I love the block system that they have in each month and the overview, plus I love the refill and extra pages that are super easy to add and remove!

[cmc]

I used to use EC Lifeplanners and their Teacher Planner, but last year I switched to inserts for home and used the Recollections Teacher planner for work. I liked that I could get it in the smaller size. Also, it was very similar to the EC one but even better! I'm only teaching two classes this upcoming school year so I will be using a Filofax with weekly inserts.

[mimicupcakeable]

As a person of color growing up w not a lot of books w characters that looked like me, I feel so strongly about this! I begin student teaching next year, but I’ve already started slowly buying books when I can to build my future classroom library!

[defeatingdisability]

Love your new books, just added them to my must read pile 😁

[madisonfreeman]

I'm behind in watching, but Bloom Daily Planners are the BEST. I love them!

[graciec]

I love this haul! I just started buying books for my classroom. I’m in my second year of college and will be in the classroom at times observing next year, then student teaching the year after. So I’m trying to build my library early to bring the cost down my first year of teaching. So exciting!❤️

[timetoteach]

So many great titles! Thank you for sharing the book websites also! I have a HUGE goal this summer to make my classroom library have plenty of cultural diversity and ethnic studies!!!! Just love your enthusiasm for reading and teaching!

[lindsey]

I use One Stop Planner Shop! It’s customizable where you print what you need! She also just came out with a digital version where it works with different apps or google documents! I absolutely love it! She also updates her products often and has monthly bonuses!

[amandaizard]

As an elementary school librarian, I LOVE your list!! If you don’t have it already, look into a slightly older title called Waiting on the Biblioburro by Monica Brown. It’s lovely!!

[Cwazyheaven]

I personally love the Happy Planner. It’s easy to customize yourself and WAY more affordable. Michaels and many other stores carry them. You can easily take out and add pages to it because of the disc binding system. You can also buy directly from their website if you can’t find what you like in stores.

[susanveligor]

I am enjoying your book hauls! You have so much energy... I love it! I’ve been teaching for 16 years and still purchase so many awesome picture books. Last year I went through my picture book stack and I never realized how many books I have! Too many to count!!! So I plan to use them as mentor texts, teaching reading skills. Any advice as to how you are going to plan out your lessons? Is their a reference book you prefer to use? Thank you for always making me smile here in MA.

[meganelizabeth]

Hi Kim! I use the Libib app to keep track of my books. With the app, you can scan the barcode and it will add it to a list. You can create several organized lists (fiction, nonfiction, picture books, chapter books, etc.) if you want. Occasionally, it doesn't recognize the bar code..but you can type it in and add a picture.

P.S. new teacher on insta here. @teachinginelementary I've been following for a while and found your YouTube over quarantine. I've been binging your past videos since then.

[jessicakogan]

I just picked up The Day You Begin from Amazon and it is soo sweet, I love it! Great for the first week of school.

[erinichole]

Happy Planners are great and easily customizable ❤️

[emruss]

I love the book, Planting the trees of Kenya! Wangari Maathai was an amazing woman! When I was in high school, I was part of a group called Peace Jam and I went to a conference and got to meet her! It was an amazing experience!!

[kenzielynn]

I am about to start my junior year of college and have already started building my future library! i’m super excited to incorporate diverse books in my classroom. also love you videos!!