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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This super clever tale of the turtle and the hare by Julie Sykes and Tim Warnes is really fun. In this versions, the hare thinks he has totally outsmarted the turtle only to find the turtle has put one over on him.
The turtle wants to share the cabbages in the farmer’s field and the hare does not. He challenges the turtle to a race. A race he thinks he can win.
Along the way, the turtle’s friends try to cheer him on and they need rescuing. The turtle is sure she will lose when she has to stop and help them.
In the end, the turtle tricks the hare into to giving them all to her. You will have to read to see how.
What did we do with the book?
Ribbon Spool Race
We placed pictures of a hare on one ribbon spool and a turtle on another spool and raced them.
Animal Name Letter Search
JDaniel had to search in magazines for the letters needed to spell out the words turtle and hare. When we had found all of the letters we glued them over the letters on this page.
I created this activity by pasting clip art of a turtle and a hare into a Word document and then typing the type of animals under each picture.
If you like these That’s Not Fair, Hare! activities, here are some more book-themed activities:
Coding Activity- Going on a Bear Hunt
Hungry Caterpillar Money Activity
Knuffle Bunny Color Activity and Cardboard Washing Machine
Oh ribbon spool race – how fun!
I love the ribbon spool race!
Wow! I love the spool race idea! We just talked about that tale yesterday.
Our activities and books didn’t match up this week, so I don’t have anything to post. I still like seeing all the ideas, though.
So cute!
We have this book on our bookshelf and read it often 🙂
Those Ribbon Spool Racers are so neat! Looks like a cut book =)
What a fun idea. I think my son would love doing something out of one of his books.
Love so many of the ideas here. My grandboys are spending some days with me and I’ve found enough to keep them busy! I love kid’s books.
Like the ribbon pool racing idea – perfect for boys 🙂
Great ideas. I especially like that you had him search magazines for the letters to build the words. my son really struggles with fine motor skills so tracing words or even writing his name is not fun for him, but he does love reading words and learning about letters and words. I’ll be able to apply this idea to a lot of learning! Thanks!
The spool races are such a cute idea!
spool races! who woudda thunk? great idea lady!!! wishing the linky was still open – I’ll look for the new one 😉
Oh, what fabulous looking books! We’ll have to hunt them down at the library. Thanks for linking this valuable post to the Kid’s Co-op 🙂
PS- forgot to mention.. looks like a fun game! It gave me ideas for other games with ribbon spools as well, so thank you 🙂