Show them how to move their hand to make the top Rosie magnet move along the page. Give the child a second magnet to put under the posterboard. On a piece of posterboard draw a simple path for the child to follow using the magnet.

Make a magnet board by attaching the pictures of Rosie and the Fox to a magnet. Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices builds awareness and ability to follow basic health and safety rules such as fire safety, traffic and pedestrian safety, and responding appropriately to potentially harmful objects, substances, and activities. What would you do if a stranger came up to you and said to come with them? Would you take candy from a stranger? Talk about strangers and how one should not go with strangers. Why do you think he was following Rosie? Do you think it was safe for Rosie to go out by herself? Ask the children if they wanted to go out for a walk what should they do? (tell an adult).

Spend a minute talking about the fox in the story. Mathematics/Geometry & Spatial Sense builds an increasing understanding of directionality, order, and positions of objects, and words such as up, down, over, under, top, bottom, inside, outside, in front, behind. Then point to the fox on that page and ask the children if they can guess what is going to happen to the fox? On each page where the author is telling what Rosie is doing, use your finger to show the preposition (across the yard, move your finger across the page). Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation demonstrates progress in abilities to retell and dictate stories from books and experiences to act out stories in dramatic play and to predict what will happen next in a story. Show the children the cover of the book and ask them if they can guess what might happen while Rosie is out walking?

Mill (the factory where the wheat straw is made into flour)Īsk the children if they like to go for walks? Where do they walk, what do they see, who goes with them? Tell them that today you are going to read a story about a chicken named Rosie who goes for a walk.

Haycock (another word for haystack which is a pile of hay stacked up in a field and left to dry).

Draw an oval egg shape about 7 inches long onto several colors of paper.

Walk with Rosie around, across, under, through, and past the barnyard and find out if the fox gets her in the end. Rosie decides she’d like to go for a walk and a hungry fox follows her.

Helping Your Child to become Creative so that they can help change the world.īook Play Everyday Teaching Preschoolers Through the Love of Books.

Helping Your Preschooler Prepare for Reading.

Multiple Intelligence and Children’s Learning.

The Value of Play Dough in Early Childhood.

The Importance of Teaching Classroom Rules.

Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins