The children liked it's bright and simple crayon illustrations on bright backgrounds. As we turned each page they called out the name of the one animal drawn there: "Bee!" or "Beetle!" or "Lady bug!" and waited to hear the simple words, with repetition of sounds, that I asked them to repeat back to me;"Can you say Busy, buzzing bee?", "Flutterby, Butterfly?"
It is a short book which tied into our mini beast theme and is also good for a group of children which included 1 to 4 year olds.
It went really well after doing our butterfly craft and looking for things that fly in the garden and believe it or not we found 2 bees and 2 birds!
Now we just need to find a song about a butterfly. Do you know one?
http://www.sallydastey.com - her kids CD is ace and my 2 year old is very fond of "Hey Cocoon" on it. Also sweet
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAZHVNVJp0
and good hippy number http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lSSgzVc-Ts
looks like a beautiful book
This really sounds like a wonderful book for word play.
ReplyDeleteLovely book....it's wonderful when you have a book you can read to children and they can anticipate and join in!We have been reading a lot of books with bees in them lately and one of my toddlers buzzes everytime she sees one now!
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I used to have a CD with an awesome butterfly song and I have no idea which CD it was =( I'm super bummed!!! Thank you for linking up=)
ReplyDelete5 little butterflies fluttering by.
ReplyDelete1 little butterfly gave a sigh....
"I'd like to flutter right up to the sky."
So that little butterfly fluttered high
and the other 4 butterflies waved goodbye.
4 little....
(from a sing and play (5?) tape I think)
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/butterflies/butterfly_songs.htm
ReplyDeleteWe love learning about butterflies here too!
Delete:) Colleen
I love board books, perfect for younger children. love the vibrant colours!! thanks for linking up with #readwithme xx
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