Day Home- Mo Willems

Who doesn't love the pigeon!
Here is what we did this week,

our clothes pins from last week, Blake and our day home friend were making coyotes out of them, seriously, clothes pins and an hour of entertainment!

 We read duckling gets a cookies, then baked cookies!

 Blake wanted to add nuts since the first cookie in the book had nuts.

 

Can I play too?
this idea of course came from pinterest!  I gathered a collection of balls, and things to catch them in, in the book a snake wants to play catch but has no arms! So the children were invited to play catch and see if they could catch without using arms.

 

Blake decided to trying catching with his eyes closed.

kayla found a basket to use

Alice watched!

Let's say hi to friends who fly!
The book shows tracks from the friends flying, so I made rollers out of potatoes and invited the children to make tracks.

kayla rolling her tracks.

We read naked mole rat gets dressed, and Amandas alligator, so dress up seemed to suit both books!

Dress up then turned into playing trick or treat!

 

We read 3 pigeon books, then talked about what we would and wouldn't let the pigeon do.  I made a chart and we wrote down our names under yes or no, we used the ideas from the book (drive the bus, have a hot dog party) and came up with our own.  The children's favorite idea was to let the pigeon have a shrink ray and shrink himself.

 

 

Of course we had to have a hot dog party to go with the week!

Friday afternoon we made some pigeon tracks in the snow, forgot the camera though!

I had a few other ideas and activities that did not get done, sick kids and a busy week!  I had planned on making speech bubbles with the kids and a few more art ideas.

if you like Mo Willems books you should check out his webpage! There was tons of fun stuff on there, including lots of print outs and coloring pages!

 

We started writing Mo Willems a letter, we need to finish the letter and send it off.