Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Book–The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say Moo

You can’t go wrong with a book that has animal sounds, especially if your group involves toddlers.  Story time at StrongStart includes babies up to 5 year olds.  So to find a book that is enjoyable and keeps the attention of those various ages is a book that I will use again and again.
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This book, by Jonathan Allen, is a fun way to introduce sounds for each animal. Which keeps the young members of the group involved.  For the older children I used it to help focus on the first letter sound in each word.
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The first time retelling the story, without the book, the word bubbles were blank.  When introducing each animal and after the children told me the sound they make I wrote it on the bubble sounding out each letter.
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The book, pictures and word bubbles were left for the families to explore and retell.  I noticed several families use it as a matching game.