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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
This week we looked at Baby Brains and RoboMom by Simon James. This book is just wonderful. Baby Brains is a super-intelligent baby that can spell “Good Morning Mommy” with blocks as a newborn. He loves to work on the computer, do experiments with his chemistry set, and design new inventions.
Baby Brains tries to invent things that will help his mom. He invents a self-rocking cradle and motorized stroller, but his mom is still tired.
Baby Brains decides to invent a robot to help mom and dad.
Mom and Dad are thrilled when RoboMom makes breakfast and does the dishes. RoboMom tries to give Baby Brains a bath and change his diaper, but Baby Brains prefers mom or dad to do it.
By the end of the first day, RoboMom starts to have smoke coming out of her head. This system malfunction leads to nuts and bolt being served at breakfast and Baby Brains being washed with the dishes. Later Baby Brains hung out with the wash. Baby Brains calls out for his mom and she comes running.
RoboMom explodes just are Baby Brains in unhung from the laundry line. Being a mom is just to much for her.
That night the family does their chores together.
Baby Brains ends the book by inventing a RoboMom 2 that just vacuums.
I guess you can’t replace a mom with a robot.
What did we do?
Cardboard Robot
We decorated a cardboard robot. JDaniel decided to place some things on him rather than glue them so he could decorate him all over again.
The robot spent the day playing with JDaniel and exploring the world.
Robot Math and More
Homeschool Creations has an amazing robot unit. I printed out several things for JDaniel and I to do together.
We did the robot puzzle.
We rolled a robot die and marked every time we rolled a particular robot on a graph with Cheerios.
There was a fun sorting activity we did.
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Great activities! My son would love them =)
Thanks for hosting
Those are such great activities, although I think my son would eat more cheerios than placing them on the chart!
What a fun book and activities. Those printables are super cute!
what a fun book! Sounds like something we would enjoy! 🙂
I linked a linky that I had added last week by mistake – sorry! 🙂
Bern
That book sounds hilarious! I know he was loving that robot 🙂
Again what a fun book tie-in! and very true a robo can’t replace a mom. I love the cardboard robot and good math printable
What a fun idea and craft!
Great robot fun! My grandson is involved in “Robotics” and greatly enjoys it.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment on my Rock4Today blog!
What a fun activity!!! I adore Daniels Robo~Mom and that they spent a day of discovery together!!!
Your little guy is just a doll!
God bless ya and have a fabulous weekend! :o)
This is great. Because, as we all know, it just doesn’t get any better than robots for little boys.
Except, of course, for dirt and dump trucks.
That’s so cute that he wanted to just set them there so he could keep doing it! Adorable activities!
I LOVE your cardboard robot! That is absolutely adorable that JDaniel hung out with him all day. Such a cute photo!
very cute ideas!! love it!
What a cute cardboard robot. Despite the explosion I think I would still like to try out the robomom. Better her having a meltdown than me. 🙂
I love how you extended this book. We haven’t read it and it sounds terrific!
linked this week – and excited to join in the fun!
How fabulous. My daughter would love those robot activities!!
Thank you for these links. I appreciate it. I am saving this so I can look back through all those who linked up. Great linky party! 🙂
Blessings!
Aww looks like he really enjoyed playing with cardboard robot! 🙂
It’s so fun to see you using something from Homeschool Creations! Jolanthe is so talented and creative and has so many great resources – just like you! 🙂
I love all the robot stuff – wouldn’t my boys just eat that up, too? I’ll have to think about doing some of that. 🙂
I love this idea! We have so many books and I’m always thinking of cute activities and crafts we could do with each one. Still haven’t found the time to do any of them though! Thanks for pinning my chalkboards, BTW! I’m new to Pinterest and need to get on and figure it all out. Have a great Sunday!
I love this idea! We have so many books and I’m always thinking of cute activities and crafts we could do with each one. Still haven’t found the time to do any of them though! Thanks for pinning my chalkboards, BTW! I’m new to Pinterest and need to get on and figure it all out. Have a great Sunday!
Thanks for hosting! Great ideas here!
Love the story and your activities! The cardboard robot in the car is TOO CUTE! 🙂 Deb @ LivingMontessoriNow.com
What a great meme! I’ll have to come back and link up at some point.
Stumbled 🙂
I really like this craft, I am going to use you lead and make a cardboard doll. One of my daughters is scared of robots so the doll will work. Post Stumbled. Please check out mine From the Runway to Everyday (http://cleverlychanging.com/?p=1437).
Love these ideas! Post Stumbled.
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