{"id":5262,"date":"2014-03-14T05:54:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T11:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2014-03-13T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T23:04:26","slug":"flannel-friday-happy-3rd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/flannel-friday-happy-3rd-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Flannel Friday: Happy 3rd Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To celebrate heading in to YEAR FOUR of Flannel Friday, Anne at So Tomorrow<\/a> is inviting us to look back over ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX round ups and choose our favorites. O impossible task! <\/p>\n

Well, I did have fun poking around in our archives<\/a> for an hour or two, and I pulled out one old idea, one newer idea, and one of my ideas to revisit for today’s party.<\/p>\n

First, the old idea: Going way back to the first few months of Flannel Friday Round Ups, here’s Where Does This Go? <\/a> from Miss Mary Liberry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here you show children four “places” and and then four types of transportation. Talking with the kids, decide which vehicle belongs in each place. <\/p>\n

Reasons I love this: <\/p>\n

You don’t have to memorize a rhyme or song
\nYou don’t have to get the pieces up in any particular sequence
\nYou encourage conversation and talking among the children
\nThere’s room for open-ended questions
\nGreat vocabulary building
\nYou are helping children think critically about properties and categories
\nCan be adapted to younger toddlers by having them identify the vehicle and then you put it on the board yourself
\nThis can be easily expanded to include more types of transportation
\nIt can be easily transferred to different categories (seasons, habitats, etc)
\nYou can re-use the pieces for other transportation rhymes
\nYou could adapt this for a crowd (eg, make bigger “places” and multiple, smaller vehicles, and have all the cars come up to the board at once)
\nIt lends itself to a passive tabletop experience in the library (pretty clear to know what to “do” with these pieces without written or verbal instructions)
\nThere’s room to be as simple<\/a> or as complex artistically as you want<\/p>\n

Next, the new idea: The Groundhog Weather Game<\/a> from Itsy Bitsy Mom<\/a>, from January of this year.<\/p>\n

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In this flannelboard you sing a song, spin a spinner to choose a type of weather, put the corresponding felt weather icon on the board, talk about what types of weather it represents, and decide if a groundhog would see her shadow in that type of weather. <\/p>\n

Reasons I love this: <\/p>\n

It hits every damn one of the five early literacy ECRR practices: Reading and writing (on the spinner), singing (the spinner song), talking (about the weather), playing (spinning the wheel and taking turns), PLUS pinging on background knowledge (characteristics of types of weather) and critical thinking (would you see a shadow in this weather?)
\nIt was inspired by a previous Flannel Friday post<\/a>
\nAnne also borrowed from a preschool education idea site and a craft blog and blended everything into something fresh
\nThere’s lots of room for adaptation: you could skip singing the song, or leave out the groundhog, or…
\nCan be adapted to younger toddlers by asking them if there is a sunshine on the icon (rather than if there are shadows in that weather)
\nCan be adapted for a crowd (multiple icons of each weather type)
\nYou can reuse the pieces for a discussion activity with any book that has weather in it
\nThe spinner takes a bit of construction but could be used for multiple programs\/outreach activities
\nRead item #1 in this list again \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Lastly, one Flannel Friday from Mel’s Desk: The Shoo Fly Pipe Cleaner Puppets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reasons I love this: <\/p>\n

They are inexpensive and easy to replace
\nThey encourage eye-hand coordination
\nThey promote active listening (giving children something to do with their bodies while they sing)
\nThey are a nice change of pace from finger puppets or shakey eggs
\nThey still make me smile!<\/p>\n

Thanks everyone and happy birthday! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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