Our Five in a Row Adventures

Before Five in a Row
We used Before FIAR at our weekly homeschool meetings one year while the older students did their activities. Here are some of the things we did.

Caps for Sale
Esphyr Slobodkina

I printed off 2 sets of caps in the colors the peddler had and printed off a picture of the peddler. The children practiced counting and stacking the caps on the peddlers head and practiced sorting the caps by color.
We had blocks and let the kids build towers by stacking the blocks.
The children had great fun imitating the monkeys and acting out the story.
We had a bunch of baseball caps for the children practice walking with hats balanced on their heads.

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Katy No Pocket
Emmy Payne

I had a set of plastic toy tools in a sack and let the kids take turns taking them out in the order of the carpenter in the story.
We used animal masks and the children pretended to be different animals from the story.
Color pictures of different animals.

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Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear
N.W. Carlstrom

I cut out 2 or 3 teddy bear paper dolls for each child and had lots of construction paper shirs, pants, dresses, bows, shoes,etc. cut out and let each child dress a bear or two.
We read several other teddy bear books - Bear's Busy Year - A book About Seasons. and A Day in the Life of a Baby Bear.

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Runaway Bunny
- Margaret Wise Brown

Pictures of different "round" things - ball, CD, plate, pizza, etc.
We had a lot of construction paper shapes in various colors and sizes for the kids to sort by color, size, or shape or to count.
Sang "bunny" songs

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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson (from FIAR Vol. 2)

Drew pictures with purple crayons.
Made policeman papersack puppets and talked about safety and policemen.
Made flashcards with different colors and had the children take turns naming the colors.

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Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown

Nursery Rhymes - notice refernces to "Hey Dittle-Dittle", "The Three Bears", and "The Three Little Kittens"; read some nursery rhymes.
Bible - Gen. 1:14-19, talk about the forth day of creation and the sun, moon, and stars, used popcyle stick puppets of the sun, moon, and stars, and sang songs with the words "Sun", "Moon" and "stars" in them. ("Twinkle, twinkie, little star"; "Mr. Sun", etc.)
Shapes - find examples of circles, squares, triangles, etc. in the story illustrations. Use geoboards, shape pieces to make shapes and pictures.
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