This morning Oliver went to preschool, he had a lot of fun at school. He got a sticker from the teacher because he did a great job listening today.
When he came home we read a book that Connor gave us last year. It is a book called, If You Take A Mouse to the Movies, by Laura Numeroff. It starts with the mouse wanting to go to the movies, so the little boy takes the mouse to the movies, then the mouse wants popcorn, so the boy gets popcorn for the mouse. The mouse wants to use the popcorn to make a popcorn string for the Christmas tree, so they have to get a Christmas tree….each event causes a need for something else. At the end of the story the mouse runs out of popcorn, so he asks the boy to take him to the movies again….The story could just keep going, and going, and going. It is a fun circle story.
The author has written many circle stories, Mommy always thinks that it would be fun to change the story at the end. Instead of taking the mouse back to the movies to get popcorn, what if you took the mouse somewhere else….then it wouldn’t be a circle story anymore, but oh well, it might end up being an even better story. (Sometimes, its fun to break circles or cycles. It can reveal things that you never knew existed.) Oliver and Mommy are going to read more of Laura Numeroff ‘s stories and think about different endings.
Reading is fun!
Christmas themed circle story
The mouse from the story
A fun little chart we made...when Oliver is older
we can write in the different events of the story...and
talk more about all the different things we noticed.
Oliver with our treasures.
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