Welcome to our second Read & Romp Roundup! I hope you'll enjoy the February roundup, which highlights some great books for inspiring movement and promoting literacy among the important children in our lives. In case you didn't know, today is also World Read Aloud Day, an annual event sponsored by LitWorld to promote literacy among children in all parts of the world. You can learn more about this special day and ways to participate here. Enjoy the roundup, and happy reading aloud today!
At Access Dance for Life, Jacqui reviews the picture book What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. Filled with unique animals and their body parts, the book can help kids learn how to lead with different body parts when they dance...and so much more!
Jodie at Growing Book by Book introduces us to 15 Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids. But she also goes one step further and uses the book as inspiration to think up eight new outdoor activities to promote literacy with young children. Lots of her ideas include picture books and movement, too!
Head over to Maria's Movers to see how Maria used the picture book Bounce by Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin in her creative movement classes. Her kids had a great time bouncing and bumping and falling like the adorable dog in this fun book!
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4 Comments on Read & Romp Roundup -- February 2012, last added: 3/9/2012
Thank you for the feature and all the other great ideas listed!
Hi, Jodie! Thanks for stopping by again and for your participation. I loved reading about all your innovative ideas!
Am looking into Bounce.. love that! I use the analogy of a bouncing ball when working on continuous allegro with older students. This would be a great way to incorporate that idea in the preschool classes... Thanks for the roundup! (and for including AD4L!)
Oh, I hope you like Bounce. It's one of those books that always makes me smile...and there's even a spread in the book with ballerinas on it :) Thanks again for being part of the roundup!