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 what you have done.
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My Book Tie-In of the Week
That’s When I’m Happy is a wonderful book about activities a little bear loves doing with his family in the fall. He collects leaves with his dad and picks a special one to bring home. The leaves are also used to play soccer. Mom knows the special place on a little bear that will bring out the largest laugh. With dad, he picks out a star and mom picks out a book. She knows just which one is his favorite. Mom teaches him to read the words that start with the first letter of his name.
The parent bears in this book really take the time to play with and know their little one. I love how many ways they find to play together.
We created a sculpture of leaves falling based on one I saw in a post by No Time For Flashcards and hung it from the kitchen curtains. It looked pretty for a few minutes.
Then a small boy decided to tug on it and the leaves and the branch they were attached to fell to the ground.
We gathered bits and pieces of nature from around our yard. JDaniel and I were able to use these wonderful found objects in sorting activities. We sorted them by color, size, and texture.
I have also linked this post to stART found on A Mommy’s Adventures.
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Oh I love the leave mobile! I like the idea of sorting nature items. We just might do that tomorrow!
So cute! Love the idea and the book looks like a good read. Left you a blog award!
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What a great idea and resource. One of our favorite ways to tie-in books to life is to have theme dinners. A few we have done are Harry Potter, Lemony Snickets Series of Unfortunate Events, and Twilight. We started this when my kids were little with the Little Miss Spider books.
The mobile is really cute! I love the idea of sorting things we would find in nature. It would be a perfect accompaniment to our nature walk for this weekend.
Neat idea! I wasn’t prepared for it this week (although we did do a ‘field trip’ to a medieval fair) but I’ll try to participate in the future 🙂
That looks like such a cute book! We just love bears at our house. What a great fall activity!
We’re going to have to check out that book. Great activities!
I guess crafts are for playing with and looks like he enjoyed it! Even if your lovely sculpture fell apart!! Love the book! And love the new Meme! Yay!!
And thanks for linking up to Kids Get Crafty too!!!!
Maggy xx
I second (or third or fourth?) the motion concerning how cool the mobile is. Love it! My wife’s Aunt Kathy gave our toddler several Winnie the Pooh books (written recently in the style of the original Milne books) that have some great examples of activities for kids to do outside with nothing but ones imagination and what one finds at hand. I’ll need to blog about those sometime soon. I’m actually doing a Dr. Seuss book giveaway on my blog right no, but then you know that. Have a great weekend!
Love your insight on the book! The craft is super cute too!
Have a great weekend,
Robin~♥
I am constantly amazed by you. What a great teacher you must be for your children!
yet one more bit of home decor falls victim to a little boy!!! : D
“That’s When I’m Happy” sounds like a really great book. Will have to look it up the next time we are at the bookstore. Will definitely check the library first. I like what you and your son did with the leaves. I’ve got to try this with my daughter, she loves gathering leaves, sticks, and asking me questions about them. The leaves haven’t quite turned here yet, but I will remember this when they do.
Little hands have a way of rearranging crafts 🙂
love it!!! a fabulous meme! I no longer have young kids. If I did, I’d be right there with you!
You are such a good mom! Always trying to teach from every angle! I bet JDaniel4 loved it!
What a fun fall activity. I’ve got to get into the fall grove. I’m running late this year it seems!
I will be grandma for the first time in November, so for the moment I am rather looking what’s new in baby’s world, lol !
Those look like beautiful illustrations. I’ll have to look for that book at the library!
Gorgeous book! And I love how you’ve then done a craft with the kids from it! i should do things like that – thanks for the inspiration!
What a great book and art project. I can’t wait to go on a nature hunt with the girls. We have some fun things to find in our yard
Thank you for linking up to stART this week :0)
I forgot about those spiral hangings! They are great. Thanks for reminding me.
Exciting! Looks like you are off to a great start!
I added your meme to my brand new list…hope you don’t mind!
I love the leaf mobile!I like the idea of sorting through beautiful fall leaves this time of year.
I missed the link-up, what day does it come out on…Can’t wait to post next week.
Thanks, karen
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I, too, missed the link-up! Thanks for the wonderful comment on Emmy’s Book of the Day. Emmy LOVES to read and do projects. I’m looking forward to reading your future posts.
I missed posting on your blog today. So, I will just share what we did. We read a superhero book called Flying High and did a Superhero unit study that I created. We also had a fun Superhero lunch. Your book looks sweet! Thanks for sharing.