The Napping House

One of our favorite books is the Napping House by Audrey Wood.  If you are not familiar with it, it is a really cute book to get to know.  It is great for sequencing skills and retelling.  I found pictures in one of my old Mailbox magazines from 2002 that correlated with the story.  Here is what we did: 

The first thing that the girls did was color their characters and bed from the story.  After that, they cut them out and taped them to blocks.

This is Lila retelling the story.  The bed is on the bottom and each character gets added one by one.  Each character that gets added is smaller than the one before.  The book uses great adjectives to describe how each character is sleeping.  Once the house is built, the flea makes everyone fall off of the bed:)

The next thing that we did was to create a sequence chain ordering the the characters from smallest to largest.  This was a piece of cake for Lila and it was surprisingly easy for Sophia too.

Phia's finished product!

Lila's finished product!

The last thing that we did was to recall the adjectives used in the book to describe how each character was sleeping.  We then added some additional ones of our own.   I encourage the girls to use different words when we are going to sleep.  Tonight the girls are going to hibernate:)