{"id":2844,"date":"2011-11-07T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2011-11-14T23:26:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T06:26:06","slug":"piboidmo-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/piboidmo-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PiBoIdMo: Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been running through some of my baby storytime files, hoping to brainstorm some ideas for more homemade big books<\/a> I can make and use. <\/p>\n

I started by looking through my Goodreads baby storytime shelf<\/a>, jotting down my favorite titles and a couple of notes about their structure and content. <\/p>\n

One category of books that work for baby storytime is nursery rhymes. Titles like Keith Baker’s “Big Fat Hen” use big bright illustrations to tell just one Mother Goose rhyme. I think there are a couple of other rhymes that I could make into books, too! <\/p>\n

Mary Mary Quite Contrary<\/strong><\/p>\n

I want to write one or two more verses to this rhyme, and then each page of my book could be a different kind of flower or plant. I think the flowers could be represented with basic shapes easily enough, and I could use this book in my Garden, Summer, Colors, or Mother Goose storytimes.<\/p>\n

Royal Duke of York<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a rhyme my mom recited to my sister and me all the time. As I was trying to picture illustrations that I could create, I got an image in my head of the Royal Duke teetering on one foot on the top of a mountain (“When you’re up, you’re up!”) and it made me smile. If I made the soldiers look like nutcrackers or toys (rather than real people!), this would be doable for me. I could use it in my Opposites and Fourth of July storytimes.<\/p>\n

Rain on the Green Grass<\/strong><\/p>\n

I made a flannel<\/a> for this rhyme, and wrote an extra verse, but I could make it into a book as well, with one image for each phrase. I’ll add something small, like a ladybug, on every page, to add continuity & more visual interest. I’d use this in Spring and Summer storytimes. <\/p>\n

Down at the Station<\/strong><\/p>\n

I could use the train car patterns<\/a> I just made, to make a book for this rhyme. I’m going to try to make the engine driver be roly-poly to contrast with all the straight lines of the train cars. I can use this book in my Things That Go storytime, of course! <\/p>\n

So that’s my first set of ideas for PiBoIdMo<\/a>! Other categories of stories I’m going to be thinking about are circular stories, yes\/no or question\/answer books, ABC books, and cumulative\/sequence stories. <\/p>\n

What’s a picture book YOU’D love to see created for baby storytimes? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been running through some of my baby storytime files, hoping to brainstorm some ideas for more homemade big books I can make and use. I started by looking through my Goodreads baby storytime shelf, jotting down my favorite titles … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemade-big-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2LHEP-JS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}