Today for preschool we did the letter H and I was so bummed about what I COULDN'T do!
I remember a book that my parents had called A House is a House for Me.
It goes through all of the "houses" that different creatures live in really great rhyme. The reason that I'm so bummed is that I didn't think about it until Monday (not enough time to get the book sent from my parents) and even though it's technically "check in" at the library, it was definitely not on the shelf and has been lost to the ages.
I can't blame the library though. I know that my own darlings frequently pull books and we don't get them back where we belong . . . sorry!
So I didn't get to read the kids this book that I LOVE but we did a matching game based on the idea.
It is super simple to do a Google image search for various creatures and their houses: bees and beehives, squirrels and trees, princesses and castles, etc. In word, I set the paper size to 4" by 6" and then dropped the margins way down so that one picture was on each page. Then I stuffed my printer with 4x6 index cards and printed! Voila! Instant matching game!
The kids enjoyed it (they all wanted to keep the pictures) and they learned a little bit about different types of houses.
But I still want to get a hold of that book. It might just "accidentally" find it's way into my car the next time we visit the grandparents . . .
