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Read.Explore.Learn.- One Snowy Day

January 28, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

One Snowy Day by Tammi Salzano is a wonderful padded counting book about a penguin and the wintry objects he encounters. He has one hat and two mittens. There are three penguin friends who join him in riding four sleds. The book continues with the penguins creating a snowman, eating snowflakes, making snow angels, and throwing snowballs. After a day of play the penguin takes nine steps home to have a cup of chocolate with ten marshmallows.

One Snowy Day -Read.Explore.Learn Activities

I love counting books and JDaniel does too. One Snowy Day has been a fun counting book for JDaniel and me to read together. With all the snow we have had recently JDaniel has been able to do alll the fun things penguins got to do in the snow. It has been fun to have him point to a page and say, “I did that too.” The illustrations by Hannah Wood are perfect for the book. The muted colors fit so well into the winter scenes she has painted for each page. The silvery snowflakes that reflect light give a 3-D effect to the pictures.

What did we do?

Number Practice

I found pictures online that matched each of the objects counted in the book. I had JDaniel match the pictures I printed to the pictures in the book.

Then we arranged the pictures by the number of objects in the pictures.

Craft

I found a really cute penguin craft on DLTK. We printed out the pieces and then JDaniel tried to trace my hands. We used the hand prints to make the penguin’s wings.

Disclaimer: I was sent a copy of this book to review by Tiger Tales Books. I was sent a box of all their fall releases to review. The opinions of this book are my own.

Read.Explore.Learn.- Snowman

January 21, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

Amazon.com: The First Day of Winter (9780312371388): Fleming ...

The first day of winter was last month, but I was all caught up in Christmas when winter started and I hadn’t discovered this book. The First Day of Winter by Denise Fleming is a wonderful book with text based on the twelve days of Christmas. Each day a snowman is given something new to decorate him.

The snowman gets a red hat with a gold button on down to ten peanuts for toes. He is very dapper and well decorated by the time the book is done. The repetitive nature of the text made it easy for JDaniel to jump in and recite the text as I read it. It was fun to sing along with too.

Retelling the Story

We had a great time retelling the story as we assembled all the snowman decorations. The crayons represent things we drew on the snowman using that color.

Craft

We assembled the snowman. Our snowman had some bits and pieces in different locations than the one in the book.

Creative Play

This was the only snowplow my street saw during the snowstorm.

Read.Explore.Learn- Playing in the Snow

January 14, 2011 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

Snow by Cynthia Rylant describes snow this way it comes softly in the night like a quiet friend” or falls so “heavy [it buries] cars up to their noses. The story describes all types of snow and shares a grandmother and her granddaughter enjoying the snow by sledding, making snow angels, and more.

I love the illustrations by Lauren Stringer that are filled with joy and paint beautiful images that fit perfectly with Cynthia Rylant’s words.

Snow Sensory Box

JDaniel used his chopsticks to give snowballs a haircut.

He went on to shovel the snow.

Outdoor Cleaning

JDaniel and the next-door neighbor Nathan dusted off all the lawn furniture and railings on the deck.

Snowflake Quesadilla

After all the time outside, I made snowflake quesadilla for us to share. It was so easy to cut out a tortilla and warm it on the stove along with the second one in a frying pan with olive oil. Once both tortillas were browned I placed turkey and cheese between the tortillas.

I am also linking this to Feed Me Books Friday.

Read.Explore.Learn.- Christmas All Year Long

December 31, 2010 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

Board book A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree Book

A Wish to be a Christmas Tree is a wonderful book about a tree that finds out he has a purpose all year long. What fun it is to be so helpful to others all during the year and not just look pretty at Christmas time.

What did we do?

Thank You Notes Using Hand Tracings

I trace JDaniel’s hand in a thank you note as his signature. I was reading about reusing wrapping paper on Red Ted’s Art Blog to make thank you notes. It gave me the idea to trace JDaniel’s hands onto wrapping paper and add the hand cutouts to the thank you notes I need to send to relatives to thank them for his gifts.

Christmas Card Puzzles

I love reusing Christmas cards. Last year we created a picture walking book using some of the cards. We would look through the cards and talk about what we saw in each picture. This year found a great post on Nurture Store called Christmas Card Games. It talked about making puzzles with Christmas cards. I just cut a few of the cards to make puzzles. JDaniel really enjoyed them.

Read.Explore.Learn- Thanksgiving

November 26, 2010 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

I love What is Thanksgiving! by Michelle Medlock Adams. It explains to children that Thanksgiving is not about parades, football, and food. It is about being thankful and giving thanks. I love parades and food. I will watch football games. Giving thanks and being thankful is really how I hope I spent the day.

JDaniel and I made a turkey puppet with a head that could wag side to side and up and down. As I read him What is Thanksgiving!, I had him nod the turkey’s head yes for what Thanksgiving was about and no for things it is not about.

We made Turkey bowling pins for fun. I found a pattern for making napkin rings and modified it to create the bands around these old bottles. The feathers are tracings of JDaniel’s hands.

JDaniel loved setting them back up.

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week

Tractor by Craig Brown describes how each of the tractor attachments can be used to help a farmer with his crop throughout the year. The pictures in this book are amazing. I have to admit that I looked in the glossary in the back of the book to find out what some of the farming terms meant. JDaniel loved watching the fieldwork throughout the planting and harvesting season.

Hello, Harvest Moon by Ralph Fletcher beautifully describes a night filled by the light of a bright harvest moon. I love the wonderful rhythm of the words that describe the night time activities that can now be clearly seen due to the moon. The pictures in this book are amazing. If it weren’t for the fact that JDaniel would probably not sleep well, I would love to have a harvest moon here soon.

Autumn Harvest by Alvin Tresselt shares with its readers the things that can be found in a farm community in the fall. This book contains a lot of words and JDaniel’s attention seemed to wander when I read him this book. I loved the weaving together of wonderful word pictures like “.. the gossipy birds strung along telephone wires, waiting to start their autumn flight.

What did we do?

Farm Equipment Sensory Box

I placed some rice and several types of noodles in a plastic tub for JDaniel to explore. I showed JDaniel the glossary at the back of the Tractor book and the noodles I had selected to represent each tractor attachments. He loved playing with it. He played with it for a long time and made very little mess. The next few times the rice and pasta tub was taken out it made a huge mess. I am still finding rice. My husband mentioned that maybe he was too young for this. I am not sure if he will get neater with age.

Painting Pumpkins

JDaniel got to paint his pumpkin from the pumpkin patch at playgroup this week. The mom who hosted playgroup this week, Jennifer had the children use washable finger paint. It was an awesome idea. The paint stayed on the pumpkins and not the children.

Catching Fall Leaves

JDaniel loves to be outside. He loves to play with leaves. I thought it would be fun to try to catch leaves in a butterfly net. The wind hasn’t been blowing here much lately so, I decided to throw leaves in the air and have him try to catch them. Later he decided to catch leaves out of piles of leaves I had raked.