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.
My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
This wonderful book An Orange in January follows the travels of an orange as it makes its way to a boy’s home. I love the warm pictures in this book and the opportunity to share how food gets to our table.
We really loved getting to read about how one of JDaniel’s favorite foods gets to our house. We also loved the boy’s brainstorming at the end of the book as to what you could use an orange to do ie: juggle with one.
What did we do?
Mapping
We took out our atlas and looked for Peru. Peru is the homeplace of the oranges we purchased from the grocery store
Craft- Making Orange Circle into Something
I put out paper with orange circles glued on them and had JDaniel transform the circles into something else.
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What a fun read. I like the idea of the traveling orange.
What a fun book! I haven’t heard of it before but I’m going to look into getting it. I love your fun art project idea too.
Thanks for hosting!
I always look forward to oranges in winter. One of the bright spots in a cold, colorless season (for those of us that live in the north).
Such cute activities to go with your book! Reminds me of some of the activities we did with “How to Eat an Apple Pie and See the World”.
Aw I love your giraffe! I just love how creative kids are!
My boys love oranges too. I’ve never heard of this book, but I think they would like it. I love how you gave him his creative liberty with the orange circle!
What a great open-ended craft! The book looks intriguing too.
Cute! I remember doing stuff like this when I was in kindergarten. And for some reason, I lovedddddd cutting out circles from colored paper. I still remember our teacher showing us how to do it. They always turned out strangely-shaped but when you’re 5 or 6, who cares? 🙂
I love the idea of turning the orange circles into something else!
Beautiful. I’ve have to share this with my godsons, 2 and six. thanks!
Such a fun activity! Your giraffe is quite cute, D!
What a great fun activity! I’ve been trying to come up with new ways to entertain and teach the kids something while the freezing cold has us indoors. Linking the oranges from the grocery store, to mapping, to crafting = brilliant!
We read this book starting yesterday (and we will read it Five In a Row). We learned the word “frolic”, when I asked the children what creatures were frolicking on one page. We learned “segment”. We figured out what the ocean was giving the oranges (wind). We admired how the artist made the wind in big swirls.
Can’t wait to check out that book!
Thanks for hosting and for the invite to link up!
Aw- the giraffe is so cute! I love all the creative projects!
I love his descriptions of his drawings – and your giraffe is cute!
Great extension activity =)
i’m gonna try this with my son.
This is a very clever idea and you could do it with other shapes too! Love the bug and your giraffe!
Thanks so much for linking to Family Frolics! Hope to see your posts again!
That’s funny, because of course after reading that book I think I would have immediately made that orange circle into an orange. I love how out of the box original both of you were!
Ha- I love this idea and never heard of this book! I will have to look for this at the Library tomorrow! Thank you for sharing your ideas with us on The Sunday Showcase Hope to see you next week 😉
I love your giraffe! You artist, you!
What a great open ended activity! I love learning about new books for the kids 🙂