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Bunnies Rescuing a Giraffe and Old Movies

April 27, 2011 By Deirdre

Rescue Bunnies by Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin is JDaniel’s new favorite book. It is about a Newbie bunny and her field test to become a rescue bunny. Newbie and her team are sent out to save a giraffe that has become stuck in the mud in hyena country and desperately needs help. Due to the fact that the bunnies are going to hyena country, Newbie is told that they may have a code red situation. In a code red it is time to evacuate and leave the giraffe behind.

You can probably guess what happens. Yes, they issue a code red, but Newbie won’t leave the giraffe behind. She ties herself to the giraffe and the other bunnies have no choice, but to save both of them.

Throughout the story various rescue bunnies utter lines from old movies. I thought it would be fun to see if you recognized any of these old movie lines.

Please list the lines and the movies that you remember in your comment. I will list the answers on Saturday.

Here we go:

1.“I am serious…and don’t call me Shirley.”

2.“You can’t handle the truth!”

3.“Nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch.”

4.“You had me at hello.”

5.“Snap out of it.”

6.“I’m King of the World”

7.“Here’s looking at you,kid.”

Do you remember any of these?

Today is “B” day on Mrs. Matlock’s Alphabe Thursday.

Read.Explore.Learn.- True Meaning of Easter

April 22, 2011 By Deirdre

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 the ways you have learned with and explored books.

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

What Is Easter?: Adams, Michelle Medlock: 9780824918781: Amazon ...

We read the Thanksgiving version of this book and loved it. What is Easter? is the Easter version. It covers all things that Easter isn’t and then explains what Easter is really about. I wish that it would cover what it is first, but I still really enjoyed sharing this book with JDaniel. The traditions in what it isn’t part were fun to talk about and share.

I really liked The Easter Story. It explains Easter is an easy to understand way. It skips the crucifixion and some of the other scary events leading up to Christ’s death for which I am grateful. JDaniel would have been very upset about them. While he will hear about them when he gets older, I am glad he didn’t have to see or hear about them in this book. The Easter Story does cover events leading up to and following Christ’s death that JDaniel could understand and learn from.

What did we do?

Tissue Box Art

I couldn’t co-host a Tissue Box Challenge without creating something with a tissue box this week. I cut out the pieces and JDaniel helped with the gluing of the bunny below.

Jelly Bean Egg Rocks

I found a wonderful little book on 1+1+1=1 called The Jelly Bean Prayer. It describes a specific color on each page and how it symbolizes something God has created or done. Yellow is for the sun, black is for our sin, and red is for Christ’s blood and so on. We explored rocks I decorated to represent the jelly beans in the book.

What have you been doing with your children to get ready for Easter?

Read.Explore.Learn.- One Little Blueberry

April 15, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

One Little Blueberry starts tumbling down a hill after falling to the ground. On its way down the hill, various bugs and insects notice it. Each hopes to eat it and begins to follow its descent.

There are two tiny red ants, three spotted ladybugs, four fuzzy bumblebees, five shiny beetles, six sleepy crickets, seven wiggly caterpillars, eight pretty butterflies, nine hungry spiders, ten hopping grasshoppers that each what to inhale it. While they argue about who will get to eat it a bird swoops down and has it for a snack.

I am not sure how they all thought they were going to eat it and JDaniel couldn’t figure it out either. We did have a great time counting each of the insects and loved the surprise ending.

What did we do?

Cooking

We made cornbread muffins with blueberries. They were so good. I am not sure if it was the blueberries we added or the touch of honey that made them really yummy.

Counting

I found this bug box and the erasers at Dollar Tree. We had the die.

We took turns rolling the die and then placing the correct number of butterflies or flowers in the box.

Read.Explore.Learn- One Rainy Day

April 8, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

One Rainy Day.

Little Duck has a wonderful time with his red boots and orange umbrella playing in the silver shimmering raindrops. He encounters a green frog, blue puddles, pink worms, black bugs, brown mud, white boats, and yellow flowers while out enjoying the rain. Thank goodness his mom has a purple towel waiting for him at home.He is probably really wet.

What did we do?

Color Matching One
We took a leftover lick and stick color stripes from a Sunday school lesson I taught a few months ago and cut them into small squares that would fit on the bottom of little rubber ducks.

ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Activities : I-Q

JDaniel helped me lick the squares and place them on the ducks. Two ducks each received the same color. Then we tried to find the ducks with the matching color.

Color Matching Two
I took out an old egg carton and put different colors at the bottom of each egg cup. JDaniel then tried to match the color on each duck’s bottom to the color in each egg cup.

Read.Explore.Learn.- St. Patrick’s Day

March 18, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

Jamie wants to march in the St.Patrick’s Day parade with his big brothers. They think he is too young. Jamie gets up early St.Patrick’s Day morning and sets up to prove them wrong. He takes his brother’s flute and heads up to the parade ground with the family dog to show them he is big enough.

Jamie more than anything proves to himself that he can do it. Along the way he greets and meets the other early morning risers in his town. Some even give him an orange soda, a pastry, an egg, and a small Irish flag. By the time he reaches home he has accomplished his task and left a reminder for others to see that he made it there and he made it first. There at the top of the hill is a soda bottle with a small Irish flag.

What did we do?

Experiment

We added food coloring to the water in the colors of the Irish flag along with white carnations. The carnations were slow to change in the large glass vases. The carnations JDaniel requested we try in blue (his favorite) color changed overnight.

I love these vases. I won them as a door prize last month. They were perfect for the experiment

If you look carefully, you can see a little green. We will let them soak up food coloring and see what happens.

Thank goodness JDaniel wanted blue flowers!

Read.Explore.Learn.-Animal Alphabet Books

March 11, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

This week my blog posts have been all over the place. I usually try to pick books for Read.Explore.Learn that fit the weekly theme. This week’s books are just plain fun. They are all written by Giles Andreae and illustrated by David Wojtowycz. JDaniel loves the bright colors of the illustration and the funky starfish that appear in one of the books.

ABC Animals Jamboree is a great alphabet book with wonderful rhymes about each featured animal. JDaniel loves the jellyfish. The jelly fish’s eyes and smile make him laugh. The jiggling the jellyfish likes to do it something he also finds fun.

The rhymes are fun and entertaining for both of us. It is fun to read about each of the animals. Some of the rhymes are told from the animals’ perspective. We really enjoyed these.

Commotion in the Ocean and Rumble in the Jungle is much like ABC Animals Jamboree. They do in fact contain some of the same rhymes. It was fun to read them with JDaniel and see if he recognized them. Both books contain a lot of new animals along with the old ones.

The copies of these books I received were board books. JDaniel loves to read them over and over again. I am so glad they are well made. JDaniel received a book about fire trucks from my mother-in-law for his birthday and the binding has already been broken. These look like they will last.

Rumble in the Jungle is filled with animals JDaniel is familiar with. We learned a few new facts about each and loved the text layout. It changes from animal to animal.

The Commotion in the Ocean features the starfish JDaniel loves. He learned a lot about ocean animals while searching for starfish. He is very concerned about it hanging out near the shark’s mouth and in the Arctic where it is so cold.

What we did with the books:

Cooking

We had to make jello after reading about the jellyfish. JDaniel really wanted to make something that would jiggle. He loved stirring the liquid jello in ice cubes to cool it down.

Craft

There is a picture of the underwater animals in the darkness in Commotion in the Ocean JDanel loves. We took out I-Pad I won from The Activity Mom and drew dish on a black background using a program called Doodle Buddy. JDaniel loves the program and it is free from the iTunes Shop.

Disclaimer: I was sent all the books listed above to review by Tiger Tales Books. I was not compensated for mentioning Doodle Buddy.

Read.Explore.Learn.- Dr. Seuss and the Zoo

March 4, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

JDaniel loves If I Ran the Zoo. It is about a little boy who has grand ideas about the animals he would have in his zoo. He would let go of all the common animals that everyone has heard of and find the most unique and usual animals he can. JDaniel loves all the fun animals and the rhymes in this book.

What did we do?

Field Trip to the Zoo

We went to Zoo Atlanta last Friday and had the best time. JDaniel really stopped to look at the animals and what they were doing. He asked questions about many of them. Usually he walks right past the animals and heads for the play areas at zoo.

Curious George had a whole episode on visiting a dragon at the zoo. We needed to see one too.

This pigeon was his favorite animal of all.

Field Trip to Target

Last Saturday we went to the Target Dr. Seuss Event. JDaniel and my nephew Kevin had a great time listening to stories and enjoying the items in the goodie bags they received.

This post is also linked to Feed Me Friday.

Read.Explore.Learn.- Presidents

February 25, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

I remember reading The Buck Stops Here to my second graders when Clinton took office the first time. The wonderful book by Alice Provensen gives information in rhyme about each of the presents from Washington to Clinton. The pictures are such fun. They illustrate the rhyme as well as give you fun facts about the president’s families, pets, and favorite snacks.

What did we do?

Craft

We created a cherry tree to represent the one George Washington is supposed to have chopped down.

JDaniel didn’t want to dip his whole arm in the paint. I made the trunk of the tree instead.

JDaniel had no trouble creating the leaves of the tree using his fingers. He did tentative finger touches to start with and then added smears of green paint as leaves.

Once the leaves were on, we added red cherries using a dot stamper.

Then it was time to wash hands by playing with water in the sink. JDaniel loves to play in the sink with bubbles. It such an easy way to get paint of his hands.

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Muffin Tin Monday- Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2011 By Deirdre

We have been sick at our house for about a week with head and chest colds. I first noticed JDaniel coughing a week ago Saturday. We kept him home from church on Sunday and playgroup on Monday. I knew he was really sick on Monday at lunchtime when he ate two pancakes and a marshmallow for this lunch and announced he was done.

He was so excited about making the meal. The tin was based on a book about a special grandfather and grandson and the fun they have together called Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate by Carol Diggory Shields.

The grandfather in this book looks a lot like JDaniel’s GranDan. GranDan, my husband’s father, died last February. The grandfather in this book does so many of the things GranDan would have loved to do with JDaniel. They tell knock-knock jokes, visit construction sites, play with trains, wash dishes (The men in my family love to wash dishes.) and so much more.

One of the things more is making pancakes with raisins, bananas, and marshmallows. I decided we would try them out and see how they tasted. The marshmallows got all gooey and icky. JDaniel wasn’t interested in tasting that pancake.

I made pancakes without marshmallows and place them in the muffin tin with syrup, marshmallows not in pancakes, scrambled eggs, and berry applesauce. As I mentioned above he ate the pancakes without marshmallows and a marshmallow.

After taking a three-hour nap, JDaniel asked if he could have the scrambled eggs for a snack. I decided to give him something light instead. He got scrambled eggs for lunch later in the week.

Are you having a special Valentine’s Day meal today?

Read.Explore.Learn- The Kiss That Missed

February 11, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

A very busy king/father tosses a quick kiss good night to his son as he heads to the bath to clean off the grime of the day. The kiss he throws misses his son and heads out across the kingdom. A brave knight is sent to retrieve the kiss and bring it back to the palace. The kiss flies around the kingdom settling bear, wolves, and dragons down for the night as it travels. When it is finally caught and brought home, the king reads all who were touched by the kiss a good night story.

What did we do with the book?
Created Cards to Send to Exchange Partners

We are participating in the Fantastic Five’s Valentine’s Day Card Exchange. I had JDaniel decorate puzzle cards I found at Hobby Lobby. Yes, I took the easy way out having him put these together. I thought the children receiving them would like them better than one covered with our artwork.

Letter Recognition

I attached a magnet to the end of an old fishing pole my sister Michelle gave to JDaniel. He had fun fishing for the letters of the alphabet on hearts with paperclips attached to them.