Activity

There are many activities you can do with this book.
One activity can be a simple naming activity. You can point to a picture of an animal and the student has to tell you what the animal is. For example, if you are doing a farm animal unit, you can turn to the page that has the poem, “Quack!” Said the Billy Goat by Charles Causley. It has a picture of different animals that can be found on a farm. You could also use this poem for a matching game. Above each farm animal there is a bubble with the sounds that animals make, but the sounds don’t match up with the right animals. So you could have the students match the sounds with the right animals.
Another activity you can do is have the children write their own poems. They can go through the book and look at the different poems, then write their own.
You can also use this book for an informational text. For example, there is a poem, Sparrow by Kaye Starbird that talks about many different birds. You can read the poem and discuss each bird and then make a little quiz over it. This is a great book and the possibilities for activities are endless!