Today I read....sang "She'll be coming round the mountain" by Jonathan Emmett and Deborah Allwright. After only a week the children have learned the routine... they follow me down from the classroom to where they eat lunch... they let me sit and then gather as close as the can to see and hear the story. During the story I have children literally holding me into my chair... sitting at my feet... leaning on my legs... peering over my shoulder... they are all eager to hear and see the story.
Today the story had movements that went along so we took the first reading rather slow so they could learn the words and the movements. This book when sung can go rather fast so I didn't want anything to get lost in the reading.
Midway through the second reading a couple of the younger children noticed that the pages felt different than their writing paper... they also realized that if they slid their fingers down the waxy feelung pages it made a sound. This was very entertaining to them.
At the end of the reading we talked about the picture on the cover which has a girl riding the horse. I tapped on the book to make the sound of a horse gallopping and immediately the children started dancing and moving their body to the rhythm. This started atrend where all the older children wanted to tap on the hard cover book as if it were a drum. Very entertaining to me.
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