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!
