Showing posts with label scholastic canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scholastic canada. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2013

Frosty The Snowman

Our Baby Tales for Tots book this month was perfect for the season and the weather!!
On a snowy morning we met with our little ones to read Frosty The Snowman.  It was a cute book with the lyrics of the song put to pictures.

The sparkly cover of the book got lots of attending from the kiddies!

Our littlest winner was so happy to win and mom let us know that they have read it over and over and over!!!

Thank you Scholastic Canada for another perfect book

Frosty Fun Fact!  Frost the Snowman was written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson and was first recorded by Gene Autry  in 1950

Frosty the Snowman

Frosty the Snowman, was a jolly happy soul,
With a corn cob pipe and a button nose, and two eyes made of coal.

Frosty the Snowman, is a fairytale, they say.
He was made of snow, but the children know he came to life one day.

There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found,

For when they placed it on his head, he began to dance around!

Oh, Frosty, the Snowman, was alive as he could be;
and the children say he could laugh and play,
just the same as you and me.

Thumpety thump, thump, thumpety thump, thump,
look at Frosty go.

Thumpety thump, thump, thumpety thump, thump,
over the hills of snow.

Frosty the Snowman, knew the sun was hot that day,
so he said, "Let's run, and we'll have some fun now, before I melt away."

Down to the village, with a broomstick in his hand,
Running here and there, all around the square,
sayin', "Catch me if you can."

He led them down the streets of town, right to the traffic cop;

and only paused a moment, when he heard him holler, "Stop!"

For Frosty, the Snowman, had to hurry on his way,
But he waved goodbye, sayin' "Don't cry, I'll be back again some day."

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Mama Book Club takes on Inhuman and LOVES It!

Thanks to Scholastic Canada our Mama Book Club got to read a fabulous book called Inhuman by Kat Falls

This was a great read that the moms really enjoyed.  For some, it was a genre they weren't used to but they loved it none the same!

"By the end of the second chapter I decided so far I'm really enjoying it!!  It isn't a genre I'd generally read so I'm glad I like it...."  Jenn C - member

"was hesitant, at first, because it's not really a genre I would normally choose, but once I started I couldn't stop!! I really enjoyed it :)" Nadia - member

Our moms really enjoyed this book and are waiting for the next one!

Book club is a great way to make an excuse to read, as moms we are always busy and find it hard to take for ourselves, making  commitment to the club is a great way to ensure time to read and time to get out of the house to talk about the books!

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Swamp Water by Robert Munsch!

Tales for Tots this month was a brand new book from Robert Munsch called Swamp Water.  Thanks to our partner Scholastic Canada one of our lucky moms got to take a copy of the book home with her!


As always, Munsch weaves a fun and wild tale that gets you giggling.  Anyone that has ever taken a kid out to a restaurant can probably relate to this story and find the humour within.

Not only does Robert Munsch do a great job telling stories, the illustrations always help make the funny parts shine through and the kids love pointing things out in the pictures.

For more great titles from our partners at Scholastic, visit them online at www.scholastic.ca, on Facebook, or Twitter @scholasticCDA #scholasticmomstown - See more at: http://momstown-toronto.blogspot.ca/2013/11/tales-for-tots-swamp-water-by-robert.html#sthash.6jaCRb5X.dpuf

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Good NIght, Sleep Tight

Tales for Tots this month was so much fun!  Thanks to our partner Scholastic Canada, we had the chance to read a cute book that incorporated some fun childhood rhymes.

Good Night, Sleep Tight was a book that we can relate to, kids stalling bedtime with their sitter by asking for a story. 

The kids really liked the rhyming in the book and the repetitive paragraph that let them know a new rhyme was coming.

The kids were quite wound up before we started the book but they really settled and listened to this one and I think all the moms had fun hearing some old rhymes!

 
 

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Squirrel and Fox a great read about friendship!

Tales for Tots this month had a great book about friendship and about being different.

Our Scholastic Canada Sponsored program always has a great book for us, and one that one lucky mom gets to take home!
Today we had the luck of a heat wave and a chance to have one last park story!  While it was a little on the warm side, it was nice to be outside and read our book.

The illustrations in the book are bright and fun and the story is easy to follow and tells a tale of two unlikely friend who have so many differences, but are similar in so many ways too!

A great reminder to little ones on how people can be different and still be the best of friends!

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

5 Little Puppies Jumping on the Bed

Our baby version of Tales for Tots is always fun.  The babies just want to play and eat the books but the moms always love seeing what we have and reading the stories.


This time our older babies loved the book as it was a familiar one to them... sort of.

5 Little Puppies Jumping on the Bed is a cute version of 5 Little Monkey's jumping on the bed. 

A classis rhyming song that we have all played with our kids at some point.  The illustrations in the book are bright and fun and the babies enjoyed them along with the moms.

This board book was a great one for the babies!  Not only was the story familiar but new and fun, the pictures bright and interesting, but there was a touch and feel aspect that they really seemed to enjoy

Thank you Scholastic Canada for another great baby book!

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Let It Shine was a hit with the Tales for Tots group!

This months book was a great summer read for the kids!  Our sponsor, Scholastic Canada, sent us Let it Shine by Maryann Cocca-Leffler for our July read.

The kids loved the rhyming and the fun pictures and had us read it twice!


The pages were full of detail and colour and the story was fun!

I loved how the book talked about all the good things that you can do in the summer and also pointed out some of hazards of summer like bug bites and sun burns! 

I thought it was a great touch, especially after having just been away for a weekend in the North where myself and my kids experience the side effects of summer fun!

This book is part of a series by the same author about the various seasons.  We had read Let it Fall this past October and it was a great book as well!

As always, one of our tots got to take the book home!  She was thrilled and sat and looked at the book and got her mom to read the book again!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Can a Bear and a Polar Bear be friends? Our Barrie Tots Find out!

This month our book was the Hungry Bear.  Scholastic sent us yet another perfect book for our kiddies for our Tales for Tots program


The heartwarming story of a  brown bear and polar bear had the kids attention from the page one until the end.

It was a great story about sharing and building friendships. The kids also had fun colouring pictures of Polar Bears!

The  Arctic Animal theme this month was lots of fun!

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

My Friend Henry. Tales for Tots with the Barrie kiddies!

The kids really liked this story!  My Friend Henry was a little bit silly and have a little bit of mystery for the kids!

The kids waited as on each page a little boy asks "Have you seen my friend Henry?" and give a little description of what Henry looks like.

As the book goes on Henry begins to get sad as all the people he asks tell them they have seen Henry with a different friend.

So where is Henry??  You will have to read the book to find out!

As always with our Tales for Tots program, Scholastic makes sure one lucky mama goes home with a copy of the book!

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Barrie Babies Love Tales for Tots, Baby Style!

Tales for Tots has always been a favorite with the members.  The books we get are so fantastic thanks to Scholastic Canada.

This month we started something new and new program, Baby Basics Tales for Tots.

The moms were so happy to have a reading program just for the littlest ones!

Normally our Baby Basics is a quiet and more intimate group meeting at someones home, or somewhere cozy.  This time we took it to Williams Coffee Pub so we could fit more mamas and have a hot beverage while we all checked out the book,

This month the book was I Love You be.JHOIHIGLIG.   It was a super soft cloth book with a little mirror on it.

The moms were impressed by how soft the book was and how vibrant the colours were.

It was the perfect book to start off our Baby Basic Tales for Tots program.  Thanks Scholastic!

Monday, November 26, 2012

I Spy.... The Alphabet!!!

Our Alphabet theme this month was loads of fun! Kids love to learn and when learning is fun they enjoy it that much more!

Our Tales for Tots book this month was I Spy, The Alphabet. Scholastic Canada picked this great book for us and it was loved by the kids, big and small!

The rhyming book made it that much more fun and the colourful pictures were fun.

The kids loved pointing to the objects that went with the letters and it was fun for the moms to see how smart the kids were!

One wee babe got to the take the book home. She may not know her alphabet yet, but she will have this great book to look forward to when she is ready!

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Perfect Snow!!

If there has ever been a book that was so fitting for how our winter has been this year, it was Perfect Snow.

Our Tales for Tot book of the month from Scholastic was called Perfect Snow by Barbara Reid.


It tells the story of tow little boys that are so excited about the long anticipated snow fall... and not just any snow, but perfect snow! The kind that you can make snow men and snow forts out of!

The story tells a lively tale of children and their utter excitement for getting to play in the snow and all they can do with it.


The tales end much like our winter has been and how all of our snow falls have played out... you guess it. RAIN!

The kids really enjoyed this book. They laughed and related to it because they are just like these kids, waiting for the perfect snow!


The parents loved the illustrations and also saw just how fitting this story was for the winter we have been having!

Our winner of a copy of the Perfect Snow was Mr. Joshua! He was quite thrilled with his book, and eagerly looked over the pages again!

Thanks again Scholastic Canada!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Are you a horse?

This month we spent some time enjoying the Wild West! It was a fun theme and the kids enjoyed it!

This month at our Tales for Tots event we read a great book that just perfect for our Wild West theme. The pictures were bright and detailed and the story was fun!


The book we read, sponsored by our wonderful literacy partner Scholastic Canada, was called Are You A Horse by Andy Rash.

This was a fun story that the kids really enjoyed!

As Roy the Cowboy tries to figure out what a horse is so he can use his new saddle, the kids giggled at all the things he came across and thought was a horse!

As with all our Tales for Tots events, one of our lucky moms got to take home a copy of the book!

You can check out more great Wild West themed books and some crafts to go with them on our momstown Arts and Crafts Blog!

Next month, we will enjoy another great book, A Porcupine in a Pine Tree, 12 days of Christmas the Canadian way!