Welcome to Read. Explore. Learn! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books.
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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
One Snowy Day by Tammi Salzano is a wonderful padded counting book about a penguin and the wintry objects he encounters. He has one hat and two mittens. There are three penguin friends who join him in riding four sleds. The book continues with the penguins creating a snowman, eating snowflakes, making snow angels, and throwing snowballs. After a day of play the penguin takes nine steps home to have a cup of chocolate with ten marshmallows.
- I love counting books and JDaniel does too. One Snowy Day has been a fun counting book for JDaniel and me to read together. With all the snow we have had recently JDaniel has been able to do alll the fun things penguins got to do in the snow. It has been fun to have him point to a page and say, “I did that too.” The illustrations by Hannah Wood are perfect for the book. The muted colors fit so well into the winter scenes she has painted for each page. The silvery snowflakes that reflect light give a 3-D effect to the pictures.
What did we do?
Number Practice
I found pictures online that matched each of the objects counted in the book. I had JDaniel match the pictures I printed to the pictures in the book.
Then we arranged the pictures by the number of objects in the pictures.
Craft
I found a really cute penguin craft on DLTK. We printed out the pieces and then JDaniel tried to trace my hands. We used the hand prints to make the penguin’s wings.
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Ha! What a cute little penguin! We LOVE penguins!
Maggy
I love the idea that he can spot things in the book that he’s been doing himself in the snow 🙂
Great ideas to go along with this book!
Oh, that’s a funny penguin! 🙂
Aww! What a cute penguin, I love it!
I hadn’t seen that handprint penguin before, he’s cute.
Your penguin story and craft are adorable! I love the handprints!
What an educational and fun book for little ones, to keep them active. Especially in these cold days:)
Hi there. I love your blog and have been a follower for a while. I wanted to invite you to link up today at my blog for our Show Off your Homeschool Room party. You do such a great job teaching…thought you might be an inspiration to us! melissa
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What a fun way to practice fine motor skills! Love the outcome!
Cute!!! I know that I have said this before: What wonderful ideas :o)
I loved doing crafts and “playing” with each of our kids as they were growing up and they have fun remembering ad bringing up some of the things we did…so I do look forward to times like that with future grandbabies! What a wonderful thing to have your blog to share your creative ideas with others and to also have to look back on with your little guy!
Blessings & Aloha!
I have an unexpected day off so yay! I am blog visiting and also completing some art orders. One more thing…I can’t remember if I have already mentioned this invite…but after you commented I added it to my post…an invite to my facebook art page…hoping to pass it on. I am slowly posting past art on there in separate, categorized albums that will be easier to see different images. If I already invited you, oops, please excuse! I can’t keep track! :o)
I’ve never seen this book, but it looks super cute!
Your penguin craft is adorable!! I love anything with handprints:-).
Cute. Love the big hand wings. Linked up today! Yeah. Thanks so much for hosting this.
I love DLTK too. Your craft turned out perfectly! I’d never seen that one before, and my four year old is obsessed with penguins.
That looks like a really cute book. I had wanted to check it out from our library this week, but sadly it was already out. Im glad you got to read it and enjoy it!
I loved doing crafts with the kids when they were younger. I use to be a huge craft girl. Now blogging has taken it’s place. 🙂
what a great idea and such a fun book and activity!
GREAT JOB 🙂
Love the idea! I’m going to work on this this week. Thanks!
Great activities and I will check out the book for Ella. Thanks! Kerri
Catching up on neglected links after my family’s sickest month on record! Thanks for linking up at Feed Me Books Friday!
I love the counting/matching activity you came up with – the options are endless with all the images available on line!