The author of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus! chats with us about creativity, drawing as empathy, and letting kids “do 51 percent of the work.”
Get ready to read the best funny picture books. Here are my favorite, funniest books to read to kids. You're going to love them!
Friendship, life lessons, and lots of laughter and humor characterize this year’s Nerdy Early Readers and Chapter Book Winners. If you also happen to keep track of previous winners, this year two …
How the author teaches young readers to confront problems and be resilient.
Handprint Pigeon Craft For Kids | Fun Mo Willems idea. Use a free printable PDF template to cut out & make. Great for preschool, kindergarten, + elementary.
Greetings everyone! This is a new storytime format that two partner-in-crimes and I created to not only mix things up with our programming...
Kids' author Mo Willems is here to make your weekdays a little better for a while: Starting today, he'll release a new “Lunch Doodle” video each weekday at 1 PM. Willems—he of the beloved Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Knuffle Bunny, and the Elephant and Piggy series, though you already knew that—is the current
I'll be heading to New York for the Book Expo America to hang out with booksellers, my fellow authors and illustrators, and the stray librarian and teacher. If you're planning to attend the conference, I hope you have a great time. I'll be signing twice on Wednesday, June 6th during events in the autographing area. 10:30 am (autographing table 8) I'll be signing posters of this fall's GOLDILOCKS & THE THREE DINOSAURS. 2 pm (autographing table 5) I'll be signing copies of THE DUCKLING GETS A COOKIE?! (note, this is a ticketed line) If you have a chance, pop by and say 'hello'. And don't forget to visit the Hyperion and Harper tables to see what I've been up do and take a peek at upcoming work. Who knows, Elephant and Piggie might even roam the halls during the day...
Free Printable Book Extension Activity for Mo Willems' adorable and funny book, The Duckling Gets the Cookie. Fun for story retelling and fine motor work.
8-1/2" x 11". 4/set.Art © Mo Willems. ELEPHANT & PIGGIE is a trademark of The Mo Willems Studio, Inc.
This step-by-step tutorial will teach your kids how to draw the Mo Willems' pigeon! The following post contains affiliate links, which means that at no extra cost to you I can make a tiny bit of money to help support this blog. Thank you! My six year old son is entirely responsible for this post! He came home from school one day, and said 'shall I teach you how to draw a pigeon?' It turns out that he'd read a Mo Willems' 'Pigeon' book at school, and had decided to copy the pigeon. Without any reference in front of
FREE printables to go along with the book series Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems. Preschool and kindergarten kids will have a blast learning with these 2 lovable friends! Practice early math and literacy skills, alphabet, counting, patterns, scissor skills and more!
I wanted to hop on and share with you that I have made additions to my Pigeon Craft. It is now a Mo Willems Crafts packet and includes 3 additional crafts, including Elephant, Piggie and Knuffle Bunny. If you have already purchased the pigeon, then you can go to "My Purchases", re-download the file and receive the new updates at no additional cost. The crafts also come with writing pieces with picture boxes. Mo Willems Crafts Knuffle Bunny: Pigeon: Piggie: Elephant: I have also added 2 new Color by Code Packets to my huge Color by Code~ The Bundle. They can also be purchased individually. This packet is Sports themed and practices identifying 2D shapes in the environment. This packet practices prepositions and comes in 2 different styles. To see more about it, click here. Lastly, I have added an "Ou House" Craft to practice the diphthong "ou". Students cut out the craft pieces to make the house. Then the students write in all the missing diphthongs to make completed words. The students read the completed words and then cut and paste the corresponding pictures. Lastly, the students can color the pictures. This craft would look cute displayed on a classroom door or bulletin board. Finally, I'll leave you with the newest addition to our family: Ethan Anderson Black Hope you all have a great weekend!
Here's a simple math game you can use as a book-tivity with any of the Pigeon books by Mo Willems. The newest Pigeon book was released today, April 1st!
Pigeon HAS to Go to School book activities unit with reading comprehension worksheets, book companion activities, printables, lesson ideas, and craft
A collection of hands-on pigeon activities for kids inspired by Mo Willem's books.
Get ready to read the best funny picture books. Here are my favorite, funniest books to read to kids. You're going to love them!
I hope your class enjoys this Mo Willems character themed count and graph activity. Students count the pictures and color the correct number of spaces on their graph. They then write the number of how many of each object they counted.
On of my favorite things to hear is children giggling. Even thinking about kids laughing and chuckling makes you smile, no?! An author study that I love to do in my classroom, that ALWAYS brings lots of giggles, is Mo Willems. Reading one of Mo Willems' books is entertaining no matter how old you are. {Sometimes I probably think the books are even more funny than my students do!} A few weeks ago I posted this picture on instagram. My class was having a little BIG issue with using the restroom correctly {YUCK}, so I went to the library and checked out this book. Who knew a book with the word "pee" in the title could work "Bathroom Miracles"!? :) Thank you Mr. Willems. Time to Pee! After reading the "Pee Book" {as it was referred to by my students} my kids were so excited to start our Mo Willems Author Study. We mastered many of our ELA standards, just by focusing on this one author. Mo Willems makes reading fun! Here are some of the activities that we did... We learned all about Mo Willems and examined what he does as an author and illustrator. As we worked through this unit we tried to be an author and illustrator just like him. We examined characters in Mo Willems' books and compared their adventures and problems in the stories. Of course one of our favorite characters was Knuffle Bunny! Pigeon was a big hit too! The kids loved changing their voices while they were reading to sound just like Pigeon. Probably one of the favorite characters that my students got to know was Wilbur from the book Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed. They were so creative when they got to dress their own Naked Mole Rat! Piggie and Elephant {my personal favorite Mo Willems' characters} were a huge hit! The students are still selecting these books for in their independent reading book baskets! If you don't have Mo Willems books in your classroom library...they are a MUST! I recommend purchasing hardcover ones, they will be read over and over again--getting lots of wear and tear! As we read Mo Willems books we discovered that as an author he uses his characters to teach us lessons. Even though we are done with this unit, my students still refer to books and characters that we read during our author study. I will randomly hear, "You should share like Piggie." or "I am a leader like Wilbur." Melts my heart! :) If you are interested in doing a Mo Willems Author Study, I recommend this unit to you... Included in the unit is all the chart parts, printables and crafts shown in this post! Click on the picture or HERE to go check it out! The best part of Mo Willems' books are the joy and fun that he brings to reading...something that is so important as we develop our students as "Reading Lovers"! Here is a little FREEBIE to help you celebrate this amazing author!
So if I were an awesome blogger there would be close ups of the entire process as well as some of the kids' work. And they'd be nicely edited shots. And I'd have known exactly which kids in this group could have their picture posted online. But I'm not awesome. So I just have to say here! Messy, quick, out of focus and not very well framed shots. But this is one of our most favorite of all time Mo Willems' books. And actually maybe Ms. O's favorite. Steps 1) Cut out lots of strips of colored brown paper. Fan about 9 or 10 in a pinwheel and tape/glue together. 2) Trace the pigeon pattern on a piece of gray paper folded in half. Google Pigeon finger puppet, increase that 150%, and use that outline. 3) Color the SIDES of the bowl brown. NOT the inside or bottom (at least we found the tape didn't stick as well when there was crayon on those parts ... but we were using inexpensive, terrible for the environment styrofoam). 4) Have kids cut out the pigeon. Remind them to NOT cut along the fold on the head. 5) Draw or paste on eyes and beak. Add any special things you like (you can't see in the pic ... but there are several birds wearing GO SPURS GO jerseys!). Fold the bottom edges out of the bird just a bit in order to make a flat surface to attach to the nest. 6) Attach the nest to the the inside of bowl. Add any more strips you like. Sort of fold/crumple the edges of the paper pinwheel around the bowl. 7) Attach the bird to the bottom of the bowl. 8 Attach the headband. We used bits of stretchy elastic. Make sure you have enough! And if you have a little guy sporting a faux hawk ... well, he'll have to wait to wear his. And nope. You don't get a pic of me wearing a bird on my head because DARN, we had to scavenge the last bit of elastic.
There's a Bird on Your Head! Hardcover Children's Book by Mo Willems. BRAND NEW HARDCOVER BOOK. CASE FRESH/GIFT QUALITY. 64 pages of Beautiful content & illustrations by Mo Willems. Perfect for beginning readers ages 4-8 years. 100% happiness guaranteed! We ship fast & safe-worldwide everyday. Detailed item info Synopsis Best-selling picture book creator Mo Willems continues his charming Elephant and Piggie first reader series. The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (and sometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant. Children who sat on their parents' laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own. Each book has been vetted by an early learning specialist. These sweet and surprising stories are a much-needed breath of fresh air in the early reader arena. In There Is a Bird On My Head , Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-two birds on your head Can Piggie help her best friend?, Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In There Is a Bird On My Head!, Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head—two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?, In There is a Bird on Your Head!, Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head- two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend? Product Identifiers ISBN-10 1423106865 ISBN-13 9781423106869
As an elementary school librarian, one perception I hope to change in the minds of my students and co-teachers is that picture books are automatically “easy books”. That is how they are labeled in our cataloging system, so I understand why they may have the misconception. I love using picture books with our third and fourth graders, who are in the 9-11 age range. They are great for introducing a new historical or scientific subject, or for a fun, engaging read. Here are some that have been favorites this year: SCIENCE VERSE by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith The fourth graders laughed themselves silly when I read this to them and nodded in recognition at many of the concepts discussed in the book. BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY by Melissa Sweet I read this the week of Thanksgiving and gave the students the assignment of watching the parade and reporting back which...
The creator of the Pigeon series, Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & Piggie is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center. He says if you want kids to draw, you should let them see you drawing.
It's the last few weeks of first grade, which means it's time for little blue pigeons to cover the walls of our classroom! And, in case you...
If your kids loved classics from Sendak and Mo Willems, try these books, too.
Over here in the Smashed Peas household we just love every book that Mo Willems writes. He has a lifetime fan in all of us through and through. I think the most loved books of all are his Pigeon books. There is just something that my littles (and me, me, me!) just love about that […]
