Extension Activities for Children’s Books:



The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews

Other Mother Goose Resources:

A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Katy Denton. Nursery rhymes of different cultures.

Mother Goose edited by Sylvia Long. A fresh version Mother Goose to enrich the language of the children.

Jane Yolen’s Mother Goose Songbook. Edited by Jane Yolen with musical arrangements by Adam Stemple.

Book Extension Activities:

Literacy/Language Development: Using different family oriented nursery rhymes, such as Mother Hubbard, There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe to promote family awareness and sharing. Encourage children to bring family photos from home. At Large Group Time, ask them to share information about their photos. Create a bulletin board where the family photos can be displayed for the week or duration of the thematic unit.

Dramatic Play Extensions:

• Pat-a-cake: Teach the students to do the clapping activity. They can use partners to clap it together.

• Act out the rhymes: Recreate the rhymes and share them with other classes after reading them aloud.

Music: Using the book, Jane Yolen’s Mother Goose Songbook, find nursery rhyme songs to share with your class and act some out. Take pictures and post them around the room or use them to send home as rewards. Have children act out Three Little Kittens nursery song, using mittens and a pie pan.

Art/Language Arts:

• There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: After reading and reciting this rhyme, have children make a class book, Our Families. They can draw pictures of their families or bring pictures from home to have a non-fiction version of a class book. Children will identify family members.

• These are the People Who Live in My House: Let each child make a personal book using several construction paper or cardstock to assemble a book for drawn pictures or glued photos of family members, home and family pets. Encourage conversation and explanation throughout activity.

• Create a magetic wall: use magnetic paint to create a wordplay wall or use a cookie sheet for a mobile stand. Utilize the words in a rhyme like magnetic poetry and encourage children to “put words in sequence” and to create new rhymes of sense or nonsense to share.

• Photo workshops, photo play and photo collage:

o Create a digital photogallery of youth recreating rhymes, email them to parents to celebrate their children learning language, post them on your website.

o Provide a digital photoshop workshop for older children: 1) research history of rhymes, the art of Nina Crews to learn about her work, and create photocollage images of rhymes interpretations for display or inclusion in a book to share with the community.

Science:

• Mary, Mary, quite contrary: Create a miniature garden in your classroom. Invite each child to plant a seed and watch it grow over the next week or so.

• Humpty Dumpty Snack : Serve boiled eggs, encouraging children to try to peel the eggs themselves. This helps with fine motor skills and shows the parts of the egg. Discuss the parts of the egg while they eat.



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