We used Ember's school library book as the basis of our Mom School today: Hug by Jez Alborough. Before I told Eryn and Eva what we were doing for Mom School, I told Eryn that she could read the book. She started to whine (what, Eryn?) that she can't read, so I told her that's okay, I'd have Eva read it instead. Eryn quickly retracted her statement.
This book is fun because it has one word (okay, really three) repeated on nearly every page, and the pictures are so fun. It follows the story of a monkey who observes other parent-child animals hugging, and who really wants a hug himself.
For the activity I was inspired by the the "follow up activity" listed on littlerunningteacher.com. I found pictures of parent-child animals that corresponded to those in the book, then cut the picture to separate the two animals. I also printed the names of each group of animals.
Eva was responsible to match up the parent-child picture puzzles; Eryn helped as needed. This resulted in some really great teamwork (happy dance). Then Eryn looked at the animal names and matched them up to the pictures. I was surprised how easily Eryn did this.
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