It does have tons of pieces and I didn't have time to dig the bigger flannelboard out of storage (we are getting ready to shut down our youth services department for a makeover soon) so bear with me.
Here they all are together:
I'm as slow as a ...
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| Snail |
I'm as loud as a...
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| Lion |
I'm as wild as a ...
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| Chimp |
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| Ox |
I'm as sad as a ...
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| Bassett |
I'm as happy as a...
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| Lark |
My flannelboard pieces were out of 2's Experience: Felt Board Fun by Liz and Dick Wilmes, but I noticed that KizClub has a pattern for this book as well. It doesn't look like they have all the pieces, so you might have to rework the rhyme a bit.
Another fun and faster way to tell this story would be to print out photos or clip art and clip each image to a clothesline as you tell the story. You can also do something similar with a group where each child gets a picture of an animal (some can be repeated) asked the kids questions like "who has a mean animal? a strong one? brave?" etc.
Here's a question for storytime presenters: Do you put all the pieces up and leave them or have one up at a time? I'm a put up and leave 'em girl, especially because this book ends with "Put it all together, it's ME" but I am curious what others are partial to. Part of it would depend on how big your board is also.
*I do express some dubious feelings about the line about being "hot as a fox." Maybe it's just me... but it seems a little odd.
Putting it all together? I think maybe for an older crowd so they could guess the idiom. Either way, nice work on the artwork.
ReplyDeleteI like to leave them up, at least with older kids. Then at the end, you could talk about the animals/descriptors. With this many animals on the board, some groups could get really distracted, though. Great flannel!
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