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 the ways you have learned with and explored books.
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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
Ordinary Oscar by Laura Adkins reminds its readers that it is okay to be you. Oscar wants to be famous. He is bored with his color, his night eating, and sleeping during the day. He gets a Fairy Godsnail to grant him three wishes. He gets each of them. The final wish is the only one that truly makes him happy. It isn’t the wish to look stupendous and spectacular that makes him happy. It isn’t the wish to be huge that fulfills his dreams. Can you guess what it is? Did you guess that he wanted to be ordinary again? If you did, you were right!
The Bear with Sticky Paws Goes to School by Clara Vulliamy is about a little girl named Lily who doesn’t want to go to her school. It is boring. When she goes to visit Sticky Paws school she realizes, she misses the routine of her school. Sticky Paw’s school is filled with chaos, messy play, and a little counting. He only wants to play and do work that focuses on him. Lily learns a wonderful lesson about school routines and in the end finds a friend who loves her school too.
Coloring and Tracing
I printed a snail coloring page and we traced the outline of the snail together.
Playdough Fun
JDaniel has learned to roll snakes with play dough
We wrapped the snakes around the snail until JDaniel got bored with it and started piling play dough on the snake.
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cute books and cute idea for the snail! 🙂
I’ll be linking up tomorrow when my post goes up 🙂
My middle son would love this play doh activity. I enjoy getting new book titles and crafts from you each week!!
I love the Play Doh activity too! My four year old loves anything that has to do with art or creating things. I’m definitely going to try it and see how he does with it.
I like the idea of tying a book in with an activity. Tracing the picture of the snail with playdoh is perfect! My 4 year old could do that and actually have fun.
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Am liking the playdough play!! Great practice to follow shapes and explore!! Fun!!!
Maggy xx
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Thanks for highlighting two of our books! We hope parents will enjoy sharing them with their kids this fall! Loved the snail activity…
Happy Reading,
Elizabeth
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I think my little boy would Like The Bear with Sticky Paws. He’s very obsessed with schools and school routines!
Ps. I loved your post about Clinton and his voting passion, too!
My whole life I have wanted a fairy Godsnail.
What a great tie in for motor skills. My kids love Ordinary Oscar too.
I did not know you were hosting this- it sounds great! When I teach my kiddos, it is almost always tied to a book- I will try to remember to link up on Thursdays now!
Great photographs. When the children play with Play Doh, it always brings me back to being a little girl. One of those powerful scents like vanilla and roses.
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The snail turned out so cute.
OH my goodness~! What a great idea~! I get to see Ben on Wednesday evening.. We have lots of playdoh and I’m going to print off the snail and look in my coloring books I have for more ideas..Ben and I are going to do this… You are tiggeriffic~!~!~! Thanks…ta ta for now from Iowa sunny and 32 degrees..
I like the playdoh idea! Looks like a fun activity.
Also, thanks for hosting this link up.
I love the idea of curling up the playdoh like that!
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fantastic ideas! thanks for hosting this
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Making use of those templates and tracing the snail using a play dough is really an innovative idea! Thanks for sharing!
I really like the idea of the playdough with the snail, that’s interesting. I think Nathan would just smash it all on there instead lol!
The Bear With Sticky Paws sounds so cute! Thanks for sharing!
My son just started preschool this year and would likely love The Bear with Sticky Paws, I’ll have to check it out! I’d be happy to have you link you meme to Feed Me Books Friday so our readers can get great suggestions from both blogs!