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Welcome
to the Preschool Book Nook, an informative place invoking
those book-filled, cozy corners in classrooms and
libraries.
There are lots of
different kinds of family members—celebrate all of them
in your classroom! Brothers, sisters, mommies, daddies,
grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins, and more!
• Hold
up the cover of Ma!
There’s Nothing to Do Here! A Word from Your Baby-in-Waiting
by Barbara
Park and ask the children to predict what the
book is about. You’re sure to get some hilarious responses!
After reading the book to the class, ask them to imagine
what else a baby-in-waiting might be thinking.
• Ma!
There’s Nothing to Do Here! is the perfect
read-aloud with its rhyme and expression. Have the
class practice saying, “MA! There’s nothing to do!”
each time you point to them. Then read the book aloud
and have students say their line at the appropriate
times when you pause in your reading and point to
them.
• Let
the class know that Barbara Park wrote the poem in
this book as a gift to her daughter-in-law, who was
pregnant with the author’s grandson. Ask them what
they think about this gift and why it is special.
Do they remember a special gift they have given or
received?
• Have
students draw a picture of a family member and tell
the class why this relative is important to them.
Encourage the rest of the class to ask questions.
• Decorate
your classroom with pictures of students’ loved ones
so they know they are never too far away. Help the
children place pictures in their very own popsicle
stick picture frames or handprint wreath picture fames—and
have them create family puppets too!
See
page 5 in the Storytime Brochure for directions for
these crafts.
AS
BIG AS YOU
BABAR
AND HIS CHILDREN
MOTHER,
MOTHER I WANT ANOTHER
MY
LITTLE SISTER ATE ONE HARE
MY
LITTLE SISTER HUGGED AN APE
PAPA
SMALL
THE
NEW BABY
I
LOVE YOU SO MUCH
LISA'S
BABY SISTER
HELLO
BABY!
JUST
ME AND MY DAD
JUST
ME AND MY LITTLE BROTHER
JUST
ME AND MY MOM
JUST
SHOPPING WITH MOM
AND
TO THINK THAT WE THOUGHT THAT WE'D NEVER BE FRIENDS
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