This is the House That Jack Built is a new version of the nursery rhyme written over 200 years ago. The modern, cartoon like pictures are very appealing to the students as they learn the cumulative rhyme that tells the story. It also links nicely to our current unit on building and structures. We read this story twice and then condensed the words so the children could learn the poem. The students also used word cards to stand up and "act out" the rhyme. That is Jack held the "Jack" card and the cheese and so on. The class looked forward everyday to the time when we acted out and recited the rhyme and were eager to be a part of the performance.
Shape is a book that helped our class review the names of two-dimensional shapes and introduced the names of three-dimensional shapes. I used this book as a link to our unit on building and structures. I was also lucky enough to locate an unusual block puzzle that is featured in the book and the students had fun this week exploring/solving patterns using the six sides of each block.
The House That Jill Built is a fun version of the "Jack" nursery rhyme (see above) but with a girl as the main character. This story also links in several characters from other nursery rhymes. The students liked this version because there were little flaps on each page that, when lifted, revealed a picture of a character. The children really appreciated the end of the story because there is a pull and fold out page of the huge house that she built for her friends and then a 3-dimensional house that she built for herself and her cat. There was a lot of discussion around how this book was the same as the book "This is the House That Jack Built" and how the paper engineering of the book took her final house from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional.
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