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Read.Explore.Learn.- Christmas Ornaments

December 17, 2010 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:

Christmas Tree Memories by Aliki is a book that highlights the memories a family has about many of the ornaments on their tree. They remember when they made some of them and they remember the people that have given them others. I was amazed at the variety of types of ornaments they made. Someday I would love to make each one with JDaniel.

What did we do with it?

Homemade Ornaments

Christmas Ornaments Hung From the Cupboards with Care

JDaniel and I make salted flour dough and rolled it out. Then we took turns using the cookie cutters to cut out the ornaments.

We kept some of the dough white. We colored some of the dough a variety of colors. I really like the marbleized effect.

JDaniel loved playing with the extra dough. He played with it for over an hour.

Read.Explore.Learn.- The Manger

December 10, 2010 By Deirdre

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:

Shannon of Milk and Cuddles sent JDaniel this book as part of the Christmas Book Exchange. Room for a Little One is a sweet story about a kind ox that has room for everyone animal that comes to his stable seeking a place to rest. The pictures in this book are beautiful. I love to just flip through and look at the illustrations. A pretty as the pictures are it is the message of this book that is the most beautiful. There is room for everyone in the stable. Jesus himself found a place to rest his head in a warm bed of straw in this stable one cold winter night.

What did we do with this book?

Retelling

First, we sorted through cookie cutters to find the animals from the story. We didn’t have cutters for all the animals. Some of the animals had to be modified to make all the right animals when I traced them on paper. We didn’t have a mouse so I reworked a rabbit into a mouse when I traced it.

I held up the animals and JDaniel held the flashlight as we retold the story with shadows.

Then I retold the story a second time and JDaniel pointed the flashlight at the right animal.

Story Comparision

We read Around the Farm by Eric Carle and talked about what animals were the same in both books and which were different. We used the animal silhouettes as reminders of what animals had been in the Room for a Little One.

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.