The bloggers of the Virtual Book Club are celebrating the works of David McPhail this month and my class enjoyed the simple and sweet book titled “Fix-It” then spent the rest of our morning having fun with fixing…
“Fix-It” by David McPhail is about a little bear that wants to watch television only to discover that the television is broken. Little bear is very upset and while the “fix-it” bear tries to fix the television, mamma bear and papa bear try to keep little bear distracted…
Nothing that mamma and papa bear do to make baby bear happy works until she sits down with mamma bear to read a good book…
We used this book as our springboard into exploring different things we can fix and the tools we use to fix them. In my story box, I had a hammer, screwdriver, tape, glue, and a sewing kit. I took out each item, one at a time, and asked the children if they could think of different things each item could fix…
After our brief discussion on our tools to fix things, the children found several things around the classroom that needed to be fixed as well including a whole set of boxes that were left in the block center along with all our tools and some tape…
The children worked together to fix the boxes so the boxes could hold stuff again. Some of the children focused on taping the flaps of the boxes closed…
While others preferred to use the tools to try and “fix” the boxes…
Some of our tools even made it over to the table. Looks like these little puzzles needed a little fixing too!
Be sure to check out my next Fix-It post coming later this week and see the linky below for more ideas for activities to go with the books of David McPhail brought to you by my fellow virtual book club members…
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Up and coming authors that will be shared in the Virtual Book Club include the following…
- February 18th-Dr. Seuss
- March 18th-Julia Donaldson
- April 15th-David Shannon
- May 20th-Leo Lionni
- June 17th-Gail Gibbons
- July 15th- Jez Alborough
- August 19th-Donald Crews
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Participating Bloggers
Toddler Approved, Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas, Rainy Day Mum, Reading Confetti, Inspiration Laboratories, Play Dr. Mom, Mommy and Me Book Club, Kitchen Counter Chronicles, Two Big Two Little, Creative Connections for Kids, The Golden Gleam, Juggling with Kids, Taming the Goblin, Crafty Moms Share, Ready Set Read 2 Me, Famiglia and Seoul, The Good Long Road, The Educator’s Spin On It, Imagination Soup, 3 Dinosaurs, Royal Baloo, Being A ConsciousParent, No Twiddle Twaddle, Crayon Freckles, The Pleasantest Thing, Adventures in Reading with Kids, Smile, Play, Learn, Creekside Learning, Our Feminist Playschool, and Teach Preschool!
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