Read Aloud : Books we enjoy

One of Reese favorite from young. It's about a little caterpillar eating it's way to different kind of food and eventually became a butterfly. Reese learned about cocoon and how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. The fun part of this book is that on a number of pages there are punch holes representing the part that the caterpillar ate! You can also do counting as it shows how many of each fruit/food the caterpillar ate. It's a fun book. Our book is the board book version so it is more hardy. :)

I have started to do read aloud story sessions with Reese a week back. I started with this treasury. It is a great collection of all time favourite classics. There are 12 books in this collection.

We are reading Caps for Sale (1947) a tale of a peddler, some monkeys and their moneky business. Repetition and humor make Caps for Sale a great read-aloud experience. Reese loves to engage in the furor of the peddler and the antics of the monkeys and delight in mimicking the tsz, tsz,tsz sounds.

As we read this story, we also try to act out the story. It's fun. We pretended to be a monkey, we talk about the many colours of caps. I am planning to do some craft base on this.

Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955)
Reese loves baby Harold. Harold is representative of every child; he is a creator and a person of action. His imagination empowers him but also brings him safely back to his bedroom. He has the magical ability to create two-dimensional worlds that satisfy the needs of his three-dimensional being.

Some of the activities we do that relate to this story are drawing baby Harold's adventure. I am not an artist but it's very simple to draw what baby Harold drew. :) We talk about the things that baby Harold encountered as well as his emotions.