Juiciness and Sassyfras have long loved Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. We've read it several times this week already, so I've put together a little story sack to help them tell the story themselves.
Contents
Copy of the book
Animal figurines- polar bears, lion, hippo, leopard, zebra, boa, walrus, and elephant
Sticker of a flamingo
Peacock feather
Zoo keeper's hat
While I had originally thought this would help them retell the story, which it did, it did so much more. A couple of things I noticed was that it introduced new vocabulary with the descriptive sounds each animal makes and it allowed them to match the objects to the pictures in the book. I have a feeling this sack will be in the basket and used for awhile.
8 comments:
Very cute idea!
Cute.. keep them a bit occupied. The sad thing is that with all the toys that my kids have I most likely have the figuries or stuffed animals of all of them.
I love the idea. Need to extract some of the animals out of the big plastic pile :)
I keep meaning to do something like that, but haven't followed through yet.
This is such a wonderful idea! Retelling is a really important way to work on reading.
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What a wonderful idea to bring a book alive! I've been wanting to do this with the book "The Mitten" - another one with lots of animals and a mitten. You've inspired me to move forward with that project!
It's wonderfu to find something that really appeals to your child, right? :)
Thanks for participating in last week's High paw! Hope to see you there again! :)
This is such a great idea and really can be done with any book! Love it!
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