January Poppins Book Nook: Greek Myths
This months theme is Greek Myths! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while. The girls and I have talked about it some! We have an ideas of the books we might be using. Do you have a favorite Greek Myth that you love? I have several that I love. I always like Hercules! I can’t wait to explore these themes with the girls.
Here are some Greek Myths books that you can check out. Yes, there are some older books in this list.
If you’re interested in joining this month’s Poppin Nook Book club, here’s what you need to do…
- Comment below and let us know that you are joining in!
- Pick your favorite animals & pets book (or a new one you want to check out) and read it with your child or class.
- Create an activity, project, craft, cooking project, etc. related to the book and do it.
- Come back and share it with us as part of a big Greek Myths blog hop on Monday, January 27th! The linky will be live for 3 weeks, so if you aren’t ready to post on the 27th… just join in when you can!
Here are some of the people joining in the link up this month.
November’s theme was Animals/Pets we did Exploring Tiger Stripes.
January’s theme is Greek Myths. (January 27th is the link up).
Here are the Themes for the rest of the year:
- February 24, 2014: Presidents
I hope that you can join up with us! I love looking at all the different ideas! And like me this month find a new book to possibly fall in love with! Plus on the day of the post the group will be giving away a copy of the book: D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
Your project packs are great–I have used several since discovering them last year!
I would recommend The Odyssey- by Robin Lister. It is a child’s version (about 4th grade) and beautifully illustrated. I taught Montessori in a larger preschool for 29 years and read it to my 5 & 6 year olds every year. They loved it (and because I read it aloud, I could modify the scarier parts-cyclops. final death scene, etc.) and begged me to read it again as soon as we were finished! I have also used several of the books you pictured on Greek myths. Reading a story every day until we were finished, at least one child would comment about noticing the same themes in cartoons, movies, etc(with name and place changes of course!) Now I have a small Montessori primary classroom in my home and am looking forward to reading The Odyssey again this year! Keep up the great and creative work!
I wont be doing a pack for this just an activity.
I am really not sure about how to introduce mythology to Aarya (3.8 yrs old). I really want to get a book maybe geared towards his age group, do you have any suggestions? (something that is easily available).
I’ll look around. But I’m not sure. One way would be to go to a book store and ask them or a your librarian! They always have ideas. You could always read to her the Magic Tree House books but talk about what you are reading.