Thursday, May 6, 2010

Turtles

I hosted story hour at the coffee shop today and we read three books about turtles.


Turtle Day by Douglas Florian is a simple, but fun book about turtle's day from sunup to sundown.

Turtle Splash, Countdown at the Pond by Cathryn Falwell features ten turtles on a peaceful day at the pond.  One by one they dive into the water.

Scoot by Cathryn Falwell features six silent turtles sitting still as stones while the pond life moves about around them.  Will the turtles ever move?

All three of these books are fun to read.  The Falwell books both have great information about turtles and pond life at the end of the books.


The children decorated their own turtle shells (paper plates) with markers, crayons, glitter glue, and stickers.


 Last year, C and R made these turtles:




They are a little too complicated to make during a coffee shop story hour, but they are fun to make at home.  For directions, click here.

To see more book projects, check out stArt at A Mommy's Adventures.

12 comments:

Cathryn Falwell said...

So happy to hear that you enjoy my books!

Cathryn Falwell

Sherry said...

Love the turtles you made last yr! Cute!

Michelle said...

We loved Turtle Splash it is such a cute book, I will have to take it out again to enjoy with Emily.

Natalie PlanetSmarty said...

I bet the kids enjoyed the books and the activity. The covers of all three books look very tempting :)

Susana said...

I LOVE Scoot!!

Those turtles are adorable!! Hope you had fun at your story hour too.

Rebecca said...

We are starting a turtles theme next week :)

An Almost Unschooling Mom said...

We haven't read any of those - I'm bookmarking them, for when we study pond life!

Anonymous said...

The turtles came out so well. I will need to look for the books.

Ticia said...

I love Turtle Splash, it's a cute book. We've checked it out a couple of times.
And, what's not to love about turtles? They're just so cute.

Jenny said...

Cute books!

Gidget Girl Reading said...

we love turtles, turtle crafts and those books!

I bet storytime was fun! :)

C and R's turtles are so cute!!!

sbswtp said...

I love this project!! So cute :)