5 a day habit- week 3

Well I cant believe it is that time of the week again.  This weeks theme for our books, is moving.  Mainly ones that get mini-faithful and usually me as well, moving.  There is one exception, but we do move along when we read it and its one of mini-faithfuls first books, and I love it....

First book this week is: Heads, shoulders, knees and toes.  This book is simple, and shows you the moves to the traditional song.  Faith loves this song and the book as well.

Our second book is: Monkey and me. We love this book, we use not only does it have a lovely pictures of animals it also shows you some moves those animals make, we then spend some time making those moves round the room.

The third book this week is: Animal Boogie. I first used this book at work, and knew instantly mini-faithful would love it.  Although it does cheat as it has a CD to help you sing the words.  But its a great book for getting you moving...

The fourth book is: Giraffes cant dance! This is a lovely book, that doesnt get you moving, but is about a dancing giraffe.  This is one of my favourite books to read to mini-faithful, we have been reading this book together since she was a month old.  Its a lovely story.

The final book is: Doing the Animal Bop! This is a lovely book, with great rhymes.  It gives you actions and noises to make so you look like the animals!

On a side note, why not pop along to Rainy Day Mums blog this week (find it here) as there is a competition to win a lovely recipe book....

5 a day habit- week 2.

This weeks 5 books a day habit (sorry its a few days late, manic wednesday means it although we have been doing this I havent blogged on it till today).  This weeks loose theme is, surprise surprise bonfire night!

So our choice includes: Hovis the hedgehog: bonfire night.  I choose this book, because I love the idea of a hedgehog being called hovis! Strange I know, but thats me! On the plus side it does point out the dangers of bonfires to hedgehogs, which although is a message that is too in-depth for a 21mth old, she now tells me when asked the hedgehogs lives in a bonfire...

Our second choice is a noisy book.  I love them.  This one is called the red fire engine.  Although its only a loose connection to bonfire night, it is the busiest night of the year for them, and mini-faithful has a mini obsession with fire engines at the moment.

Thirdly was My first learning set: book of colours. This is very very loosely based, but mini-faithful is coming on leaps and bounds with her colours at the moment, and I thought it might help when we discuss the colour of the fireworks we are going to see.

Our fourth choice is Acorns bonfire. This is more a book on seasons than bonfire night, but is about going to a bonfire, so is still loosely based.  That and the pictures are lovely.

Our final choice is Cant you sleep little bear? This book isnt really based on bonfire night at all.  But it does explain the dark nights and shows the moon as the lantern of the sky.  It is a lovely bedtime reading book.

The 5 books a day habit- halloween.

I have always been a big fan of reading, and was very keen to get mini faithful into it from a young age too (I even started to read to her before she was born!).  This, it seems, has paid off.  Now she loves books and we have 2 bookshelves full to the brim of her own books.  She also has learnt (well as much as a toddler can do) to treat books with respect.  She tries to turn pages and lift flaps etc gently and we are even getting to the stage now of putting books back, so they can be kept for another day.
Anyway a lovely friend of mine, over at rainy day mum, suggested that I look at the imagination tree's 5 books a day project. So I did, and thought this was a great idea.
So this is our first 5 books a day post, and to be topical to this weeks theme (more on that later) this weeks are all (loosely) to do with halloween.
This first story is Room on the broom.  I first came across this book at work, and I loved reading it to the children there, so just had to get it for mini faithful to read, and this was my excuse!  Its possibly a bit long, but it does rhyme and repeat...

Our second choice is Funny Bones.  This is one I remember from my own childhood and adored reading.  I can actually remember some of the lines from it off the top of my head after all this time! We have had this book for a while, but it hasnt been read in a while, so its time to get it out again and have another read.

The third book of the week is Gruffalo.  This is another favourite of ours, and has been read time and time again.  Its got fab rhymes and lovely pictures.  Its also a firm favourite for the bedtime story slot.

The fourth book is slightly more of a fun easy read, its Thats not my monster.  We love the textures and the fact mini faithful can get involved in this book.  The whole collection of them is great.

And last but not least on this weeks list is Dora's Halloween Adventure.  Dora is a firm favourite in this house, due to our links to Spain, and her books/DVDs etc having some basic spanish in them.  Its a great way of teaching mini faithful some of the language without much effort.  

So thats our first list done.  Im very excited about the books we have chosen and also looking forward to telling you about our next book list next week.