The Big Green Pocketbook

In The Big Green Pocketbook the little girl runs errands with her mom and fills her pocketbook with all her memories of their outing.

William is a color pro, but he likes to color with markers, so we made a book of green things.  He also collected a pile of green toys.
  

 He made his own green pocketbook.  This was made out of colored foam.  Next time I'll trace a pattern out of stiffened felt.  The foam wasn't the best choice here.  I did make another green pocketbook out of paper so they could each have one, and it served as a great listening guide - I had pictures of each of the many memories the little girl gathers on her trip and when we read each one they added the pictures to their pocketbooks.     

"Old MacDonald had a farm, A! E! I! O! U!" 

One of the stops the little girl made with her mom was to the ice cream parlor.  So, we did this fun ice cream activity.  William doesn't really recognize many of the numbers yet, so I thought this would be another fun thing to do to help that along. 

In this activity he had to count the number of pictures and circle the correct number. 

Find all the Bs!  I walked away for a second and when I came back he had found every single "B" in the mini story.

A math/graphing activity.  Count the number of caterpillars and color the correct number of boxes.
This page was easy.  When there were more bugs on the page he got a little carried away and occasionally would color more boxes than necessary.

Princess Abby decided she wanted to do some graphing too. 

There were more activities that we did with this book but I failed to take pictures of everything.  Sometimes it is just easier not to be all paparazzi with my kiddos!