Day 336: lion craze

Remember Henry? The lion at our local zoo that we donated money to on Earth Day. We have been to meet Henry and his family now two times.

The toy lion that the zoo sent us for our donation now sleeps with Sam and is a favorite toy to play with during the day.

When we were at the library this week I was looking through the non-fiction section and Sam saw books on lions. She wanted to check them all out, we compromised and just got one.

Lions, by Catherine Ipcizade is a good one. Very simple with great pictures. Two pages in particular lead to lots of questions and discussions. The first page of the book has a map and describes where lions live. I haven't talked with Sam about maps or where we live on a map before in any length but she seemed very interested in this small, simple map. So we talked about how there was a big ocean between us and where the lions live, how it would take a whole day on a plane to go and see lions in the wild and all the names of the continents labeled on the map. The other page that Sam really liked showed female lions hunting. This page lead to Sam and Avery trying to act out what it would be like to sneak up on something and then chase it down. They were sneaky and ran around our house for a long time!

The book had tons of great pictures, simple information and not too much text per page, which makes it a great preschool book. And Avery roared at every page! I have two little lions on my hands.

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The Nitty Gritty!

If your child has a favorite toy or stuffed animal it can be very rewarding to try and incorporate it into their learning and play. Ridiculous attachment doesn't have to just be annoying and inconvenient!! 

Comments

[welcome to our wonderland]

we love all pebble plus books they are really great books!

[Eli Bartom]

There are some great books out there on early map learning / skills. Like "As the Crow Flies: A first book of Maps". My son went through a period of being really interested in maps, and we made him a map of our neighborhood and laminated it, so he could look at it when we were out and about exploring (and draw routes with dry-erase markers, when he was interested in that). It was really fun! And now he loves to get maps when we go to places like zoos, and figure out where we could go and what we could see.