Gran and Poppy are visiting so Tex and Indi's whole family takes a trip to Golden Gate Park for the day.
Tex and Indi put on a 'going on vacation' play for their dad for Father's Day.
A family and their dog have a family picnic.
It's raining outside so Andy and his friends play dress-up to act like monsters and dinosaurs.
Tina and Grandma take a walk in the snow and try to guess which prints belong to which animal.
Eddie helps Mom by watching little sister Jenny while Mom does the laundry.
Flora and Grandpa go to the fair. They have an exciting day eating ice-cream petting the animals and going on the rides.
Dad and José plant a pattern of colored flowers in the garden and then water them.
Dad takes Maria fishing for the first time.
A kid and her dad wash the car so that it looks clean, but they're soaked right through.
When the twins help out at the family store, Indi has an accident while bagging a customer's groceries. Everyone helps clean-up the mess and Indi is helped to see that she can learn from her mistake.
A preschool girl helps her older brother create a May Basket for their Grandma.
A child enjoys a snowy day with his mom.
Jonathan makes Grandma thank-you cards.
Indi gets upset when Tex runs through the pile of leaves she's raked. As the anger escalates and they start pushing one another, Dad steps in to help. Everyone takes a deep breath, and the twins talk to one another and the conflict is resolved.
Annie figures out a way to comfort her little brother when he's feeling homesick on his first day of school.
Little Bunny thinks it might be better to be the younger child in the family. Baby Bunny can get away with things that Little Bunny can't. But when bedtime rolls around, and Little Bunny can stay up later, he realizes that there are advantages to being the big brother.
This short verse comforts Baby Bunny during a thunderstorm. She waits with her big brother, Little Bunny, until the rain passes and the sun comes out again.
A son and his father are taking a trip by plane to visit Grandma. The boy is intrigued by the view from the window. Everything looks so small from the plane. When he gets to the ground, he realizes that the planes up in the sky, that look so big on the ground, look small up in the sky.
The twins sprout bean seeds in their kindergarten classroom. After planting their seeds in pots, seedlings appeared, just in time to take them home for a special Mother's Day gift.
A mother and child talk about what they see out their kitchen window. Mom sees something that needs to be rescued and the two play "I spy." When the daughter sees that it's a chick that needs to be kept safe, she carefully takes it back to the barn.
Grandma Hen and Chicka Chick plant vegetable seeds in their garden. Chicka Chick can't locate the hose. April showers come just in time.
Dona Rosa and her friends are preparing for a dinner party. The friends are surprised an pleased to meet Dona Rosa's three nephews and their Mom. Familial names are introduced in Spanish.
Chica-Chick and Grandma Hen use strawberries from their garden to make lots of jam. Chica-Chick suggests giving the jam as gifts to all their friends and the local community helpers. She's disappointed when she discovers they have given away all the jam. But she is delighted when Grandma Hen presents her with the biggest jar of all - a present for her.
Learn different ways to help out at home. The book utilizes social emotional based text to get children comfortable with reading and uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colorful photographs correlate directly to text to help guide readers through the book.
