Story Time- Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?
Chloe is now at the age where she loves books and would enjoy and be able to get involved in a story time session that many libraries and book shops hold. I could just see her listening intently as a new and exciting book is read in a way that brings every page alive, then exploring the story more by participating in crafts and games and other creative endeavors based on the special story. Just one little problem, our local library is so small it does not have story time which I was disapointed about until I realised I don't need a library for story time, I'm a clever enough mummy (on a good day) to do it myself.I believe that sharing books with young children is so important. . We already share lots of books with Chloe and Lachlan and so I want our story time to go beyond reading, looking at and talking about the story and illustrations. I am not going to ramble on about how great sharing books with children is, most mums know this already (but if you need more convincing my friend wrote a great post on books and young children here and I agree with all that she says- or you could just share a book with a young child and see for yourself :).
So welcome to our first story time, this week we chose Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What do you see?, by Bill Martin Jr, illustrated by Eric Carle.
We read this book many times before our 'story time.' The repetition and simple illustrations make this a prefect book for young children to 'read' themselves as they point to the words. I have even seen Chloe 'read' this book to her toys and Lachie.We decided to focus on Eric Carle's collage animal illustrations for our story time this week.
We used
- paint
- two types of paper (to paint and to paste our collage animals onto)
- sponges
- cardboard strips
- oil pastels
- scissors
- glue
Chloe decided she wanted to make a bear and a frog. She started off by painting her paper and then using sponges, fingers and strips of cardboard to add texture.
When the paint was dry I cut out animal body parts using Eric Carle's illustrations as a guide for the bear and winging it when it came to the frog (now the whole world can see how bad I am at drawing:). Chloe then chose the paper she wanted to stick her animals onto and started gluing. I had to guide her as to where to stick the pieces but an older child would be able to do this themselves.
We finished off with oil pastel eyes and labels for Chloe to read.
And there you have it. Eden came home and said something like, "Wow, how much did she actually do?" I put my best teacher voice on and then leaped into a little speech about how Chloe used different methods of creating texture and she did this and did that and learnt this and learnt that..... blah blah blah. In the end we had fun exploring an aspect of the book in a way that got us of the couch (or in front of the toilet :) and did something we might not have ever done had we not shared the book together.
What better way to finish story time then to reread the story again, and again and again....
What better way to finish story time then to reread the story again, and again and again....
posted by Stephannie @ 6:46 PM
5 Comments:
I'm coming to your house! What day and what time will be your regular story time? I don't do enough painting with Maddi as she makes such a mess, but think I need to lighten up a bit!
I love books too. My kids never grow tired of books like they do with toys.
I bet Chloe loved that!!! Heaps of fun.
WOW! They look amazing....you're such a cool mum! I think I need to loosen up too and let them make a mess ;)
We love that book as well, a classic! Can't wait to see the next installment of story time at the Triffitts :)
Yeah can I just drop my kids off and come back when your done. Where do you find the energy? Story time b4 bed is our fav time of the day. I think it is a crime if parents don't read to their kids.
yeah Kels liked that one too! Great idea - did Lachie sleep for a bit???!! Kelsea LOVES books - we have reading before bed - about 5 books - she likes the same ones over abd over and can "read" some of them from hearing them so much! I recommend peepo - Kels sleeps with it!
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