Dogs Colorful Day

I have a desire to have my kids love books and a way that I encourage that is by finding ways to interact with the story. I have a copy of the book Dogs Colorful Day by Emma Dodd. I printed a page and laminated it. Then as I tell the story Mr. Wheels makes a mark on Dog with his marker with the color that corresponds to what is happening to him in the story. Mr. Wheels loves it. Then when it comes time for Dog to have a bath we use a wet paper towel as wash dog. He loves it and brings me the book to do again and again. I want to make pom pom magnets and magnet numbers next.

Baby Danced

I have reading time with Mr. Wheels most week days and back in November  2012 we had been reading Baby Danced the Polka by Karen Beaumont. He was able to finish the end of many of the sentences. We all know that our memory is not good so I decided to video me reading the book to him.  I propped the IPad down the hall from our reading place and turned it on before we started our reading time. If he knew I was recording it would have never even got started, because he would have wanted to see it before we recorded anything. I then thought that it will not mean much if you can see the book, so I edited the video to include the pages. Since I am a busy home school mom and video editing takes a while I am just getting this done. I love it and wanted to share.