Welcome to week two of The Read. Explore. Learn Challenge! 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.Remember each post counts as an entry in the challenge.
Steps:
- Link your activity below.
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Please place the Read.Explore.Learn. badge on your post or create a link back to this meme.
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Please try to visit at least three of the other people that have placed links below and leave a comment. I will visit each of you and leave a kind comment.
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If you are not linking up an activity and are just visiting, please try to stop by a few of the links below.
My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
My Big Boy Bed by Eve Bunting is one of the books JDaniel added to our library sack last week. It is the wonderful tale of a little boy who is moved to a big boy bed when he has a new baby brother.
Mom goes out of her way to make the new bed a wonderful home for sleep. She buys special sheets and a new quilt for the bed along with a special book called The Little Fat Book of Fire Trucks for bedtime reading.
There are several benefits to sleeping in a big boy bed covered in this sleepy time tale. One you can jump on your bed. (JDaniel isn’t allowed to jump on his.) Two you can hide under the bed and pretend to be a dog. (JDaniel loves to pretend he is a worm dog. What is a worm dog? He is a dog that has worms as pets.) Three there is more room for toys, books and blankets. (JDaniel has billions of toys in bed now.) Four you can get out of bed whenever you want that is until your parents hear you and make you get back in bed.
JDaniel thought this book was hilarious. I bet your newly transitioned big boy or girl bed sleeper will too.
What did we do? Decorating A Clock
JDaniel has a new found freedom now that he sleeps in a big boy bed. He loves to get up early and check on JDaniel3 and I to see if are awake. It would be wonderful he he woke up at 6:00 or 6:30 in the morning, but most mornings in is earlier than that.
I thought it would be a good idea to give him a time reference that we would place beside his clock in the morning. (Yes, he has a manual clock in his room.)
Before would decorate my clock he had to draw a robot on a plate.
When he finally agreed to work on the clock plate, he would only write my name. I was impressed that part of the scribble looks like an M.
He woke up and started calling for me at 6:15 this morning. I don’t know if the clock reference made a difference or not.
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What a cute book! I love books that help kids when they are transitioning to new stages in life- such as potty, new bed, brother or sister, Kindergarten, etc.
Great idea about the clock! I know some people get a digital clock which is a little easier for them to understand – don’t get up before the first number is a 6.
where is the linky?
I am going to look for this book….SBJ will be moving to a big boy bed, SOMETIME (no rush), and this would be a great book to read at that time!
The link disappeared when I had to edit the post this morning.
It is now up.
I just have to say: if my kids started calling me at 6:15 in the morning, I would cry into my oatmeal.
Cool book, cool clock, cool meme.
What a great book and craft idea. I saw in a family fun magazine that someone colored on a clock face the time frame when their son was allowed to come wake Mom and Dad. If the hands were before that time he had to stay in his room. It seemed clever. I think it is great you are teaching him how to use a real clock and not just digital.
We have digital clocks in our kids’ rooms. We encourage them to watch for “7” to appear, but usually they wake up sometime between 6:30 and 7.
I remember checking this book out from the library and not really liking it a whole lot. The little boy exhibited too many naughty behaviors for my liking especially jumping on bed and getting out of it when he should be sleeping.
Sounds like a great book; I might have to add it to our collection as the time to move my little man into a big boy bed approaches… Cute clock activity, too! Stopping by from the Mom Loop.
Great job on the clock. How creative!
Cute clock! I will have to come back for this linky. I love new ideas!
This is so much fun! Love it! What a great idea for a party! I love this. This is challenging and fun. Thanks so much for your comment and compliment 🙂
Xo
The change to a big boy bed is HUGE! My boys have each been excited about it, but it has meant more vigilance on my part, especially as they are getting used to their new freedom. 😉
we SO need to get the big boy bed book!!!!