BV Center School
Early Intervention
Birth Through 3 Years Of Age -
During the month of January, my Early Intervention
class read the book Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown.
Some of the concepts we learned while reading this book were, big
and little, animal identification and animal sounds.
Reading this book gave the children many opportunities to build their
language skills by imitating the animal sounds and by using descriptive
words. Some of the activities that we did were;
finger painting with chocolate pudding to represent mud on a pig, gluing
animals in a big red barn, and pasting feathers on a chicken.
The children really enjoyed reading this book as did the parents.
Many of my student’s parents, shared with me that after they read
this book with their child, they went out and bought the book so that
they could have a copy of their own for home.
Early Intervention III
Read, Play and Learn
by Keely Wymer
One of the books that the children really seem to enjoy and catch on to is “Brown Bear Brown Bear”, by Eric Carle. In using the “Brown Bear” book, we learn about important early concepts, such as, colors, animal names and sounds, story sequencing, and repetition. The children enjoy guessing which animal is going to be next in the story and identifying each animals color and sound they make.
While reading this story, we used different pictures of animals and actual animal objects to see if the children were able to match them to one another. We also created pictures of the different animals in the story using a variety of art supplies, such as, crayons, markers, chocolate pudding, yarn, construction paper, tissue paper, etc…
Overall, this story is a great and creative way to expand on a child’s learning abilities and experience. The pictures are colorful and fun and the children might enjoy making up their own story to the book!
