We were riding in the car listening to Do the Dragon by Laurie Berkner when C proposed that we have a Dragon Day at home. Perfect! The letter "D" is one of only four letters that we had not completed for our alphabet book, and I remembered this awesome "Dragon D" from No Time For Flashcards. This would be fun!
We happen to own, and LOVE, the book Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton (with gorgeous paintings by Eric Puybaret). The first thing we did on dragon day was to listen to the song by Peter, Paul, and Mary and sing along with the book. We also sang and danced to Do the Dragon by Laurie Berkner.
Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight by Ogden Nash also came off the bookshelf on Dragon Day. This book is a sequel to The Tale of Custard the Dragon, and the story is about a cowardly dragon that has to rescue his friend from a wicked knight. We don't own the first book, and it wasn't available from the library so we just read the sequel. It's a good read!
We also read Peter Meets a Dragon from the collection of stories titled Bedtime Stories for Boys.
On the Dragon Day menu were sandwiches cut to look like dragon feet.
Here are the Dragon D's that C and R made:
I hope to have more theme days like this. We all had a great time!
9 comments:
I absolutely love your dragon "Dd"!! We will have to do this when we study "Dd" again!!
Great theme! I think it's awesome that C requested to do a new activity with a theme. I am so waiting for it.
what a great dragon day! you know your a mommy teacher when you hear a song or read a book and ideas start flowing!:)
One of my all time favorite books is Purple Hair, I don't Care. It's about a mommy dragon that's about to have a baby.
yay dragon day!! love the shiny green d dragons!
you are the most creative mom I know! I love your ideas - y'all seem to always be having fun!
Adorable! Coming over from Ramblings :-)
Great Dragon projects. The sandwich is cute.
Christy, how have your kids changed so much, look so much older in just a little over six months?
I've noticed this about Joe lately too. Sad, but good and blows my mind!
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