Timeline and Random Fun

 Today is a home day for us (meaning: no preschool/daycare/work), so we were able to have some fun with our Tom Lichtenfeld author study.

The kids woke up to a message from Cloudette on the kitchen chalkboard. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to incorporate the chalkboard into our study, but I'm thinking we will use it to list the books we read and keep track of specific attributes.  Stay tuned on that one...














For breakfast, we made Cloudette and Rabbit pancakes.

I say "Rabbit" pancakes, because Q and R are most definitely "Rabbit" people, as it turns out. 

 

Speaking of which, have you taken the quiz yet?  If you haven't, go do that now, and then come back here and leave a comment telling whether you're a "Duck" or a "Rabbit" person. 

 

After breakfast, when Porter went down for nap, we made a timeline of the TL books we currently have.  We learned how to find the copyright page and the copyright date; then, we wrote the copyright date for each book on a sticky note and put it on the cover.  We used the sticky notes to help us put the books in the right order on our timeline.  We also added sticky notes for the years that Q, R, and P were born, just for comparison.

 



Making the timeline helped us learn a few things about TL:

• Q was born before most of the TL we are reading were published
• R was born in the same year that Duck!Rabbit! was published (2009)
• P was born in the same year that our two favorite TL books were published (2011)
• In most of TL books, the copyright page is at the end of the book, rather than at the beginning 

 

 We will probably revisit the timeline activity once some of the books we have reserved at the library become available.

 

After nap, we're heading out to get some supplies for Friday's art project. If you want to do it with us, here's what you'll need:

• blue construction paper
• white paint
• black crayon or black marker
• other colors of construction paper (optional)

Can you guess what we're going to be doing?

Happy reading!