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Read.Explore.Learn.-Animal Alphabet Books

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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:

 
 

This week my blog posts have been all over the place. I usually try to pick books for Read.Explore.Learn that fit the weekly theme. This week’s books are just plain fun. They are all written by Giles Andreae and illustrated by David Wojtowycz. JDaniel loves the bright colors of the illustration and the funky starfish that appear in one of the books.

 

ABC Animals Jamboree is a great alphabet book with wonderful rhymes about each featured animal. JDaniel loves the jellyfish. The jelly fish’s eyes and smile make him laugh. The jiggling the jellyfish likes to do it something he also finds fun.
The rhymes are fun and entertaining for both of us. It is fun to read about each of the animals. Some of the rhymes are told from the animals’ perspective. We really enjoyed these.
Commotion in the Ocean and Rumble in the Jungle is much like ABC Animals Jamboree. They do in fact contain some of the same rhymes. It was fun to read them with JDaniel and see if he recognized them. Both books contain a lot of new animals along with the old ones.
The copies of these books I received were board books. JDaniel loves to read them over and over again. I am so glad they are well made. JDaniel received a book about fire trucks from my mother-in-law for his birthday and the binding has already been broken. These look like they will last.
Rumble in the Jungle is filled with animals JDaniel is familiar with. We learned a few new facts about each and loved the text layout. It changes from animal to animal.

The Commotion in the Ocean features the starfish JDaniel loves. He learned a lot about ocean animals while searching for starfish. He is very concerned about it hanging out near the shark’s mouth and in the Arctic where it is so cold.

What we did with the books:
Cooking

We had to make jello after reading about the jellyfish. JDaniel really wanted to make something that would jiggle. He loved stirring the liquid jello in ice cubes to cool it down.
Craft

There is a picture of the underwater animals in the darkness in Commotion in the Ocean JDanel loves. We took out I-Pad I won from The Activity Mom and drew dish on a black background using a program called Doodle Buddy. JDaniel loves the program and it is free from the iTunes Shop.

Disclaimer: I was sent all the books listed above to review by Tiger Tales Books. I was not compensated for mentioning Doodle Buddy.

 

 

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Comments

  4. those books look exciting based on the cover alone!
    glad that ipad is so good for both of you 🙂

  6. Those look like great books! I can see why JDaniel loves the illustrations – the cover illustrations make me smile! 🙂 Visiting from Mom Loop. Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com

  9. You won an ipad? Saawweeetttt! That is what I want to win next. I just won a Flip camera from SITs the other night! …and I won a Kindle awhile back. Third time is the charm right? 🙂 Have a good weekend.

  10. The books sound great, D. I love reading to our little one. I haven’t made jello with her yet. Must try that. And that iPad app Doodle Buddy sounds fun. Will have to try it. Have a lovely weekend!

    -Michael

  11. What a great resource of ideas. I keep meaning to do “this” as we read so many books but I just have too many projects going on and it requires some planning. Thanks for the visit!
    (mymommymakesit)

  15. I love the artwork in these books and we have one of them at home ourselves. I like how you made learning fun for JDaniel with the Jello idea!

  16. I love your blog!! I am stopping by from Mom Loop! Thanks for visiting me earlier:) Have a wonderful weekend!!

  17. Those books look fabulous! THis is such an awesome link-up – love all the fab ideas for things to do with littlies!

    (stopping by from MomLoop)

  18. We have Commotion in the Ocean and Rumble in the Jungle and my boys love them. Great books! I have linked up but it’s my first time and I managed to mess up and put my name instead of the post’s name …sorry!

  20. We have been proud to be publishing books by the wonderful team of Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz. These board books are great additions to our list. Thanks so much for reviewing them!
    We have posted a link to your blog on facebook and twitter.
    Happy Reading,
    Elizabeth Bennett
    tiger tales

  21. Thanks for commenting on my blog! I was happy to click over and find this neat meme. 🙂 I linked up, and now I’m going to go visit some other links.

  22. My son does this a lot in his pre school class. I love seeing his little crafts and hearing him tell me about the book they read to go with it!

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