I heard from around the web
(thanks Teach Preschool!) that Kohl's had stuffed animals to go along with several of the Eric Carle books! I was very excited to find out if this was true in my area! I'm already lucky enough to own a few stuffed animals that belong to specific books I read often in my classroom.
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| "Where are you little green dragon?" |
I use these stuffed animals to either introduce the book, engage the children in the book or with a simple activity after we read the book.
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| "The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash" |
Several of these stuffed animals have not been able to see the light of day in a few years since the books they belong with are a bit too difficult for the children in my classroom.
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| "Elmer Plays Hide-and-Seek" |
I'm usually able to find SOME use for them though! For instance, Elmer has been used to introduce the story "Elmer Plays Hide-and-Seek. He has also been used to sing the song Willaby, Wallaby Woo....an elephant sat on...you!"
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| "The Rainbow Fish" |
The children love being able to pass around one of the stuffed animals either before or after we read a story. This is also one of the ways we can work on passing an object to a friend, turn taking and engaging with others (making eye contact and/or using words).
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| Horton |
These stuffed animals also join us in the classroom often when we introduce letters and letter sounds. I have several specific stuffed animals that help introduce Nursery Rhymes as well.
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| "Giggle, Giggle, Quack" |
There are so many ways we can use these stuffed animals; as transitional items, to introduce a book or Nursery Rhyme, to work on making animal sounds, to engage the children in a song or to introduce letters and letter sounds.
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| The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Grouchy Ladybug (as well as 2 other Eric Carle books) |
Oh, YIPEEE, now we can add these stuffed animals that go along with the Eric Carle books! I can't wait to use them in the classroom!
LOL - Awesome! I picked up my set from Khols too! I just love them!
ReplyDeleteI almost cried when I couldn't find one of the stuffed Hungry Caterpillars at first! (I had to dig down to the bottom to find one of the last ones!) whew...THAT was close!
ReplyDeleteLOL - I got the new set as soon as they set them on the shelf! I was like a crazy woman:)
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas my dad buys the kids 2 books with the stuffed animals and they love them :) I wish we were in the states so we could've got some of them from Kohls
ReplyDeleteKim- I've always loved giving books and stuffed animal sets as gifts...they really do make such great gifts for kids. What an awesome grandpa to think of these things :)
ReplyDeleteLuckily Kim's dad is my father in law and my girls get their Kohl's sets for Christmas too :)
ReplyDeleteWe LOVE books at our house and they are a go to gift idea for all of our friends and family! If we can't match a book with a specific child...or aren't sure what their collection already holds hen we get gift cards for Chapters/Indigo ;)
@lots of fun with my family- I agree! Books and gift certificates for books are a great gift idea! I always try to encourage the families of children in my classroom to order books/books on tape through Scholastic for the holidays- they're so economical and the kids just love them!
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