Miss Spider's Tea Party

Back on track!

For the second half of October I chose a book that is one of our "stand-bys." Little Girl loves it, Hubby loves it, and I love it, so it is one we could all have fun with. It also presents some great opportunities for crafts and activities, so we are looking forward to a fun few weeks! The book we are reading is:

Miss Spider's Tea Party by David Kirk.

While the tea party is coming soon (when we visit Savta next week that will be a great time!), we did start with our art and counting fun. With my "expertly drawn" outline in hand, Little Girl got to color her own Miss Spider, and we practiced our counting by gluing all eight legs onto her.

Best of all, at least to me, Little Girl is learning to share her love of reading and decided that her baby doll (aptly named "Baby") wanted to color, too.

Due to circumstances...

...including buying a home and the Jewish holidays, I have fallen behind.... So yet again, we have a free reading period! We have been sharing some favorites here at home, and Little Girl is still insisting on Moo, Baa, La La La! whenever she can!
Keep reading, and hopefully by the middle of October things will have calmed down enough for us to get back into the swing of things!

Moo, Baa, La La La!

Back on track!

Little Girl (sort of ) picked the book for the second half of September. She loves this one, and has a great time reading along and "quoting" it to us all the time!!

We are reading:

Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton.

We are going to have so much fun practicing our animal sounds, coloring pictures and generally making animals of ourselves!!

I can't wait to see how you and your little ones play with this one!!

Oops...

Ok, well, I had a book all picked out for the first half of September, but time has clearly gotten away from me...
So, unfortunately, the September 1-14th book is... whatever you read! Feel free to submit pictures of your reading together... Hopefully on the 15th we will get back into the swing of things...

Museum Colors

Time flies when you're having fun! Little Girl loves our last book so much, it was hard to choose another book...! But choose we did. For the second half of August we are reading:

Museum Colors by Gisela Voss.

This book might be a little hard to find, but it is beautiful! It introduces children to colors through images of real pieces of art which can be found in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. With both Hubby and me having gone to colleges in or around Boston, and my parents having grown up there, this book makes me smile for a whole lot of reasons!!

We have been using this book as a way to talk about the different colors of things around the home. We have so far done a little bit of coloring (which Little Girl really wanted to do with her feet...), and we have also done some sorting, trying to group things by color. In the next two weeks I hope to do more exploration, and create more works of art of our own!

I can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Happy reading, and happy crafting!

The Litle Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear

This book has been a favorite of mine for a very long time! I used to read it when I led storytime, and it was always a hit! Now Little Girl loves it too, and she even has started acting some of it out when we read it with her!!

For the first half of August, we are reading:

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood.

In addition to reading together and eating yummy red ripe strawberries, Little Girl and I have been having fun acting out some of this story. Between the great big brown bear she has and a little stuffed strawberry I made for her, we have been able to play "hide the strawberry" (hide and seek) together. It is lots of fun!!

I can't wait to see what great activities you do with this book!!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Ready to read another book? Let's go!

Between July 15th and July 31st we are reading:The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle!

There are so many possibilities for activities with this book! So far Little Girl and I have only done one, but I promise that there will be more in the next two weeks...!

While I know that Little Girl is still a little too little to do too many arts and crafts projects, that doesn't stop me from trying! So I decided we would make a hungry caterpillar together. I cut out rough ovals of colored papers and put scrapbooking mounting squares on the backs. Then I let her stick the pieces where she wanted to on the paper. Sure, there was a lot of picking them back up, and I did have to re-stick the piece with a glue stick when she was done, but it worked really well! Once the pieces were down I drew on the caterpillar's eyes and antennae, and Little Girl colored whatever she wanted, and added some buggie stickers.

I can't honestly tell you which one of us had more fun, but I can promise that fun was had!

There will be more coming from us, I can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Happy reading!!

**UPDATE**

Little Girl and I had the opportunity to feed our very own Very Hungry Caterpillar! Using an egg-carton caterpillar and her plastic toy food, we let the very hungry guy eat whatever he wanted...!

(Pictures coming soon... I thought they were on the computer, but I can't find them...!)