I Love My White Shoes! Story by Eric Litwin, Art by James Dean
I am truly digging this cat! I am diggin' this story! I am diggin' these story stones.
DIG INTO READING!
This is the first time I've made story stones. And to be honest about it...this was a collision of ideas. I completely wanted to do story stones with a dinosaur theme for Dig into Reading - but the ever present Pete the Cat just kept calling "dig my white shoes, dig my white shoes!" And really...drawing Pete is so much easier than drawing dinosaurs.
I cleaned off some old rocks. Then drew little pictures of Pete, some sneakers and stuff on sketch paper, (not too thick), and colored them in with sharpies. I cut everything out and modge-podged them all to the rocks. In this photo...each rock only has two coats of Modge Podge. I think they'll need about four more coats.
I can't wait to use these story stones. " Pete the cat goes walking down the street in his brand-new white shoes. Pete loved his white shoes so much, he sang this song:" Go on, sing it! You know it - sing it!
vocabulary building, sequencing, patterning, narrating, singing, dancing, pretending
It's all good!
P.S. (Piper Script) READING ROCKS!
So cool!
ReplyDeleteI would love to see a follow-up post of what you do with the stones. I haven't used them before.
ReplyDeleteMiss Courtney,
Deletelet's see if I can do a follow-up today! (because I would prefer to procrastinate on doing the taxes one more day!)
~ jane
These will be awesome in the literacy space at my library for this summer! Thanks for the idea.
ReplyDeleteI hope you managed to make some for your kids for the summer. I've made more, I should blog about them!!
DeleteAwesome idea! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to share the Story Stones...happy to know that people are making them. I love using them...even the shy kids take a part...like the foot stamping part...but hey, that's what their stone says to do! The Little Old Lady who was not afraid of anything works great with story stones!!!
Delete