Bookish play

Mouse’s First Fall

We love bookish play here so I always make it a point to do some book based activities every week. This book goes along with our fall leaves theme. The story is about mouse and minka having fun with leaves piling them up and hiding in them. M loved the book especially the part where …

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The Dot

A creative book by Peter Reynolds. It’s the story about Vashti who think she is not good at art and his teacher asks her to do something simple. She angrily puts a dot on the paper and for her surprise next day she will see it hung on teacher’s wall all framed up. That inspires …

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Little Blue Truck

This is one of the must read books for your little ones. It talks about friendship and how to be a friend in need. It’s also a great book to learn about different farm animals. I also live the pretty realistic images of the animals and vehicles in the book Materials needed: Corn kernels Black …

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The Very Busy Spider

One of our favorite author is Eric Carle. We have been reading his books from the time R was little. His books has some kind of magic that both of my kids were naturally drawn to them. We found this book in M’s playgroup and checked it out to go with our farm theme Materials …

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Five Little Chicks

One of the many beautiful books by Nancy Tafuri. Such a simple text and colorful pictures. It’s also good to introduce counting concepts to toddlers. The story is about a mama hen and her five little chicks who stagger off and find various inedible things to eat. Mama hen brings all of them back to …

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The Very Quiet Cricket

We always like Eric Carle books. From the time R was little it was a favorite in this home. At library if I want something quick his books were my go to. Today we read the very quiet cricket which we have never taken so far. Eric Carle have always celebrated the weakest and smallest. …

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