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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week
Tractor by Craig Brown describes how each of the tractor attachments can be used to help a farmer with his crop throughout the year. The pictures in this book are amazing. I have to admit that I looked in the glossary in the back of the book to find out what some of the farming terms meant. JDaniel loved watching the fieldwork throughout the planting and harvesting season.
Autumn Harvest by Alvin Tresselt shares with its readers the things that can be found in a farm community in the fall. This book contains a lot of words and JDaniel’s attention seemed to wander when I read him this book. I loved the weaving together of wonderful word pictures like “.. the gossipy birds strung along telephone wires, waiting to start their autumn flight.
What did we do?
Farm Equipment Sensory Box
I placed some rice and several types of noodles in a plastic tub for JDaniel to explore. I showed JDaniel the glossary at the back of the Tractor book and the noodles I had selected to represent each tractor attachments. He loved playing with it. He played with it for a long time and made very little mess. The next few times the rice and pasta tub was taken out it made a huge mess. I am still finding rice. My husband mentioned that maybe he was too young for this. I am not sure if he will get neater with age.
Painting Pumpkins
JDaniel got to paint his pumpkin from the pumpkin patch at playgroup this week. The mom who hosted playgroup this week, Jennifer had the children use washable finger paint. It was an awesome idea. The paint stayed on the pumpkins and not the children.
Catching Fall Leaves
JDaniel loves to be outside. He loves to play with leaves. I thought it would be fun to try to catch leaves in a butterfly net. The wind hasn’t been blowing here much lately so, I decided to throw leaves in the air and have him try to catch them. Later he decided to catch leaves out of piles of leaves I had raked.
Those first two books look like some that my Jack would love! I hope my library has them.
I love your sensory bin idea. I know it is one I will do for Jack as well. He is really loving his bins right now!
Thank you for hosting this meme and for such wonderful books and crafts/activities too!
Oh I bet the pumpkin painting was oodles of fun!!!
Pretty sure Tractor would be a huge hit in our house too 😉
We’ve done a couple of “field trips” this past week (read: went to fun/interesting places as a family). We visited a harvest festival and an awesome farm in Ohio. Went through our first corn maze together and took a tractor ride, saw lots of animals, and lots of other fun stuff. I think this week I might make some sort of pumpkin-flavored something for my kids.
I’m already a follower from Mom Loop. Thanks for all of the activity ideas!
Very cute with the butterfly net! It’s a great joy of childhood to make a big mess, I’m not sure they quite ever grow out of it!
Hello, Harvest Moon by Ralph Fletcher sounds really nice. I love books with great artwork in them. Until my wife did her recent autumn sensory box I had never even heard of them. Very cool idea. Have a lovely weekend, D.
All 3 look like fun book choices. I’ll stop by the others who linked up.
I love your activities this week! You always show me things I can get out and do with the girls. The leaves and the pumpkins are on my list. Thanks!
Great ideas! Do you come up with them all on your own?
I love your farm sensory box and book go alongs! Perfect time for a harvest/farming theme. And cute idea with the noodles for the tractor attachments. *Ü*
I look forward to when I can do activities like that with my boys…right now I can only envision them trying to eat the paint and rice. How old is your son?
Great ideas! I always love sensory tubs/boxes. The noodle idea is great for kids in love with farm equipment! And I think your catching leaves with a butterfly net sounds wonderful! Visiting from Mom Loop.
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Great activities! I think he’s the perfect age for the sensory tubs, but they sure can get messy. My sister used corn kernels, which were easier to pick up than rice. We found a big bag at Sam’s Club.
Looks like lots of fun activities.
Lots of fun activities….I just linked up Nathan’s latest masterpiece 🙂
These are great activities. I especially liked the leaf catching.
Thanks for popping in at my place the other day. It’s nice to meet you 🙂
Great activities and book suggestions. Thanks for visiting my blog on my SITS day. Glad I found your blog, its a great resource for teachers.