Theme: Fish Eyes, by Lois Ehlert
Age: Honey Pot is 2 years and 4 months old
This month’s featured author for the Virtual Book Club is
Lois Ehlert. Our little library only had three of her books, but we really
enjoyed reading each of them! We ended up choosing Fish Eyes for our
theme. Here is what we did:
Fish Silhouettes
The last page of the book shows an assortment of fish
silhouettes and very colorful eyes. They reminded me of reinforcements, which I
happen to have aplenty! So I printed off a few pages of fish silhouettes from
the Internet, in groups of one through five. I asked Honey Pot to count the
fish in each group; and as she did so, she could stick reinforcements on as
eyes. Although she has been pretty good at reciting numbers up to the thirties and
even forties, she does still have difficulty actually counting things. So we
worked on pointing to each picture as she says a number.
Spots and Stripes
Throughout the book, the reader is able to count the various
types of fish. Each page has an adjective of some kind, such as “green” or
“smiley”. I decided to re-familiarize Honey Pot with patterns by having her
create her own “spotted” and “striped” fish, as are seen in the book. I printed
off two fish templates from the Internet. She used her dot markers to create
spotted fish…
(Yes, it seems the pages of our library book are taped together...and in the wrong order!)
And I created stripes with masking tape for her to do the
stripes.
They came out pretty good!
Fishy Snack
We have a set of nautical cookie cutters, and I knew I
wanted to use them in some way for this theme. After a recent trip to the apple
orchards we have a superfluous amount of apples, just sitting in the kitchen
waiting for a purpose. So I decided to slice them up and cut out fishies for
her snack, as well as the old standby, goldfish crackers. She loved the apples
so much; I ended up cutting more for her, which she ate in their entirety! And
I got to eat the scraps. Yum!
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