Our First Week: Little Boy Blue

We're kicking off our first week with activities from the nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue."  Have you ever thought about all the different concepts in one short poem?  Here's just some of the ideas where this poem can take us for the month:

• farm animals --> animal sounds
• prepositions (under)
• feelings (crying)
• sleeping
• the color blue

I am excited about the activity bags we will be doing for our home/school connection. Our first one has the "Little Boy Blue" nursery rhyme, picture/word cards for Little Boy Blue to facilitate understanding and retelling, a "Hide the Animal" game to practice using the word under and other prepositions, and an easy activity to create horns for pretend play. 

Also inside the bag is the book for parent and child to share:

It's Time to Sleep, My Love by Eric Metaxas,

illustrated by Nancy Tillman.

I like to read while the children are having a snack.  I have found the young children to be more focused participants and this is a great picture book with many things to talk about!