Move Over, Rover

So, we signed up finally for the summer reading program at our local library and among the "new" books they had for the preschoolers was Move Over, Rover by Karen Beaumont. The girls have fallen madly in love with this book. We read it at least 3 time the first day and thereafter, they have gone through the book together and individually several times. The storyline is great and the illustrations are beautiful. It's funny how much we missed when we first read the book. We didn't notice the details about other animals until after we discovered the skunk! and that is when we started noticing all the different details we completely overlooked. Sooo, i was thinking i'll plunk right in and do some fun stuff with the girls this week based on this book. Here are some ideas I was thinking about:

1. Make a feltboard story with pics of all animals and a doghouse cut out of paper and with sandpaper glued to the back.
2. Concept of size- line up animals from smallest to largest (where would the snake go??)
3. Story sequence cards (i need to figure out how to do this)
4. Words of the week (animals, action words (loved the vocab), weather (sunny, rainy)
5. Color the animals (find some pics from the several great preschool websites)
6. Collage- cut animal pictures from magazines, paste on construction paper, and put craft sticks around to resemble a doghouse- can be decorated with other materials or pictures
7. 3-part cards (i still haven't really made any yet..)
8. Play game- Red Rover, Red Rover... another twist i read to this game was each kid having a shape, or a color, etc. and calling that instead of the person.
9. Beeba loves the Brown Bear what do you see?... so we'll play that with each animal looking at the next animal coming inside the doghouse
   
10. Math concepts i can think of that'll be covered i think: -how many animals total, how many with each addition (addition), size, and sequence

that's all the things that came to mind so far... now i need to get moving on making and organizing the stuff!

Here is a link i found dealing with the book: Speech_sounds_v