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 ways you have learned with and explored books.
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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
JDaniel is very much into rhyming words. He loved the rhyming poems in 
I love how the card is shown on one page of the book and the memory that inspired it is on the opposite page.
What did we do?
Craft- Valentine’s Day Cards
We received tons of political mailings right before the South Carolina primary. I decided they would be great for creating Valentine’s Day cards for JDaniel’s sleepy-time friends and robots.
I put out the mailings, markers, stickers, and crayons to make the cards.
Pretend Play- Valentine’s Day Post Office
While JDaniel was a preschool, I converted his McDonald’s counter into a post office. I placed post office signs on most of the McDonald-related ones and put some stamps (stickers) into the register.
One of our reusable bags was labeled as a mailbag. JDaniel was able to use the bag to deliver his cards to his toys.
We didn’t do a book this week, but just made a little robot http://www.redtedart.com/2012/01/25/kids-craft-cardboard-tube-robot/
Maggy
Great idea! My daughter is in preschool and learning to read. This is a wonderful idea that I need to do for her.
We have that McDonald’s too! The twins picked it out with a gift card they got to TOys R Us for their birthday. What a great way to repurpose junk mail!
Love the post office! So creative and cute! Thanks for hosting each week!
Love how you repurposed those political mailings! This is definitely a much better use. 🙂 And the little post office is adorable. What a great idea!
what a great link up idea! I’ll be back to link up tomorrow since our school units are all based on Children’s books at this time.
I’m glad those political mailings went to good use! Maybe I’ll make one of those to give to my husband 😉
You are full of so many excellent ideas! I really admire your creativity and how you share that with your son. You are a true inspiration!
Cute idea with the post office!
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LOL on the use of Romney propaganda for a better cause 🙂 The book looks cute.
Love the post office! What a fun idea!
so cute!!!
I bet he was SO EXCITED to come home to a post office 🙂
Great idea to make a post office out of his toy furniture.
My youngest, Little H, loves ART BOX time which is really just making things out of scraps of everything you can imagine that can fit into a box.
What an amazingly creative post office. I bet JDaniel had a fabulous time mailing his letters.
I love the idea of making a post office for valentines! What a great idea! I’m excited to use this in my own writing center. I pinned this to my valentines board; http://pinterest.com/kate_yospe/valentines/.
Thanks!
-Kate
How creative as usual!!
I’m going to have remember all these great ideas for when my little one gets older!
I love your pretend play post office! What a great tie in!
I love the pretend post office! What a cute idea. And how creative to use the mailings as valentines!
Thanks for always hosting such a fun link party. I just linked up my “Penguin Themed Books” post, and one of the books we read was about a little penguin who takes over the families job of delivering packages to all of the animals. I had to smile when I saw your pretend post office! It would be a great activity to do to after reading that book.
Take care,
Shauna
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