This week we explored Naughty Toes by Ann Bonwill is a wonderful book about finding hobbies that you love. The main character Chloe tries to love ballet the way her sister does, but she just can’t. Chloe isn’t even drawn to wearing the classic pin leotard and shoes. She would rather wear red, purple and green.The dance teacher tells here she has naughty toes. She just can’t convince them to point. She tries to float like a cloud, but her cloud is filled with too much gusto. Thankfully the class pianist realizes she needs to follow her feet and her feet are leading her to tap dancing.
What did we do to explore Naughty Toes?
We also worked on abab patterns by having the first shoe pointing up and the next shoe pointing down. The same pattern could be done by have the first shoe vertical and the second horizontal.
Match the Letters Shoe Game
I put Post-It notes on the bottoms of the shoes and JDaniel had to match the uppercase letters. This activity could be extend by matching the lowecase letter to the uppercase letter. It could be made easier for young children by have the matching letter on the other shoe in the pair. I had the matching letters on different shoes.
If you like our Naught Toes activities, here are some more book related activities:
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Looks like a very cute book! My kids love shoes, so they would probably like the activities too. Thanks for hosting this link-up!
That looks like a very cute book. I love the shoe matching with letters. Can you tell we are big into the Alphabet learning in our house lately?
My girls love patterns. We did sock patterns one day!
Great idea to learn with shoes! Sounds like a neat book.
Your creativity always amazes me! The shoe patterning and matching game are such great ideas. Thanks for hosting.
That’s sooo cool! Very neat idea… thank you for sharing!
JDaniels is going to be so smart when he is in school…patterning was taught to the kids all the time! 🙂 He has a smart mama!
It would have never occurred to me to pair up shoes with this book 🙂 Does JD like books that feature girl characters?
I like your shoe activities, especially the letter matching one.
Sounds like a cute book, and I like the message!
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THat is such a cute book!! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve seen whole learning experiences on shoes, this was great to see!
I love shoes.. I love to take pictures of shoes.. I love this idea and think you are so clever.. Ben and I one day took one of his favorite books ~ IT’S a Halloween story book…and we drew the main characters on pieces of paper and then cut them out and attached them to a popsicle stick. Then when I read the book to him he would bring that popsicle stick out and pretend to be that character. It was a lot of fun and Ben really enjoyed the book more.. Have a great day ta ta for now from Iowa:)
I love the idea of shoe patterning. It’s brilliant. Thanks for the tip, as always!
That sounds like such a fun book! And I love the way you incorporated all the shoe activities into the theme of the book!
I LOVE how you always incorporate learning with everything… I wish I could do it… I just tend to draw a blank