Mo Willems Story Time: July 17-18, 2017

Books:
Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
Leonardo, The Terrible Monster by Mo Willems *
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! by Mo Willems *
We Are in a Book! by Mo Willems *

Craft: Walrus Puppet
The children colored the pieces of a walrus's face (eyes, tusk, cheeks) before gluing them to a paper bag to make into a puppet.

Literacy Extensions:
- Mo Willems is a great way to introduce children to comic strips as his Cat the Cat, Elephant and Piggie, and Pigeon books are all very simple forms of comics.  Point out the speech bubbles and how they are linked to specific characters to tell who is talking.
- After reading Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, have your child "retell" another fairy tale replacing some of the characters with dinosaurs.


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Mo Willems Story Time: June 17-18, 2013

Books:
Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems *

City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator by Mo Willems
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems *
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems *
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! by Mo Willems *
That Is Not a Good Idea! by Mo Willems
What's Your Sound, Hound the Hound? by Mo Willems

Craft: Walrus
This craft goes with the book The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!.  It looks fairly similar to the photo above other than we used a small paper plate for the body and we did not glue whiskers onto the walrus.  I also drew the face a little differently.

Literacy Extensions:
- See how many different ways you can say the same phrase to convey different emotions (i.e. - "more balls" from Can I Play Too?)
- Retell a favorite story by switching out some of the characters with another type of animal (i.e. - changing bears to dinosaurs like in Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs)