This is one of my favorite children's books. I read it to my students at the beginning of each school year. It is a great story to use to open a discussion about feelings, especially about missing home during those first transitional weeks of school. We always do a follow-up activity and make hand prints to send home to each child's family. It is the beginning of a year long home-school connection which is an integral part of an effective and successful early childhood program. Parents are truly my partners in their children's education.
I had never read this book until I was working on my Associates in my Early Childhood Curriculum class. We used this book to create ideas to work away the first day jitters. We make the kissing hands for the children to give to their parents. I had more parents that had separation issues than I did with the children in my class. The parents were so excited to receive them and I'm sure quite a few of my parents used them while at home or at work.
ReplyDeleteReally find it interesting on the patterns of how animals tend to be free while roaming around. Even more the joys of watching them play hide and go seek followed up by a series of tags. Well of course they can get rather rowdy with eachother yet to mainly shrug it off with a sries of laughs. More funny if you ever stare in one direction on how close certain wild animals are that you tend not to witness normally when going about a schedule.
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