The Runaway Bunny
by Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrated by Clement Hurd
Laptime: toddler - kindergarten
Story Circle: preschool - kindergarten
This is a sweet story. This is the kind of story that you read snuggled on the couch and follow it with a hug and a kiss. Margaret Wise Brown captures love in her story of a little bunny who threatens to run away only to find that there is nowhere that he can go that his mother's love wont follow.
Laptime Activities
- Play the if you are then I will game - The child says something that they want to be such as, "I will be a book." Then the parent can answer, "Then I will be a librarian and put you in my library." or "I will be a tooth" and "Then I will be the toothbrush that keeps you clean". It can turn into a very silly game but it gets everybody thinking.
- Eat carrots for snack.
Story Circle Activities
- Make a family love collage. Cut out pictures of children with parents, grandparents, siblings, pets and glue them into a collage. You can make a big collage on butcher paper to hang in your classroom or single collages for each child to take home.
- Draw pictures of families. Children's families are often different but every child has someone in their family that is special to them. Ask each child to draw a picture of themselves with a special family member and then let them show their picture and tell about that family member.
2 comments:
How about having the teacher write a sentence underneath each page dictated by the child artist. Read together with the class and put it in the class library for future classtime readings
Great idea! I love classroom books. The kids feel so proud to see their words in print.
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