Book Activity - The Bridge is Up

Is that hell freezing over????!!!!!!

Oh no... wait...it's just the world's worst blogger throwing up a post... phew! Close one!

It's been about a million years since I've been on here, and since then the kids have grown into little giants, gotten way too smart for me, and racked up quite a few fines at the library!

Homeschooling Ryan Gosling

If you haven't died laughing on this site...do so now.  Oh man! hilarious!

OK, Back to business.

So we got all payed up with our bookies (aka librarians) and checked out a few books.  

My plan was to get a bunch of Donald Crews books since we read one of his books at our playgroup, my kiddo was upset we couldn't take it home, we have loved his books in the past, and pinterest has opened my eyes to the wonderful activity possibilities to go along with his simple books.

In addition to the D.Crews books we grabbed, the adorable one and a half year old who is at this very moment slapping my arm and shouting "Mommmmmmyyyyyyy!!!!!" pulled this book off the shelf.  Quite the score.

"The Bridge is Up" - by Babs Bell

Ignoring my mother's last words of cleaning advice as she walked out the door, I sat down with the boys to read this book.  After reading it together once, I left the big one to read it to himself as he requested, while I got some trucks together so we could do a more large scale reading together.  I mean, it was so simple and my kids love playing with trucks, how could I not?!

The text in the book is so simple and repetitive that both kids were able to "read along" and tell me which vehicle was next.  It was also great for some at-home articulation work, especially practicing those /k/ and /g/ consonant sounds, which are my 3 year old's bane.  Giving him something he loves (trucks and cars), and a physical task (queuing them up to wait for the bridge), makes him more willing to correct the sounds he is making without putting up a fight and giving up on me.

I want my kids to love reading as much as I do, (Ok, maybe not as much....lets be honest, I'm borderline suicidal when I finish a good book! "It rips my life away but it's a great escape....escaaaape." Ten bonus points if you can name that song), so I'm excited to find more and more books that lend easily to play and crafting ideas.  Which if you think about it, is just about every book.  And once again I avoided housework. 

What's that about kids not remembering how clean the house was, but how much time I spent with them and how much fun we had, yada yada yada.... That line better be true.  I'm totally banking on it!