By Brian Wildsmith
Are they cousins?
We think the tortoise is saying “I can do it!”:
Beatrix sleeps after eating a lot too! (Sometimes with his eyes open)
SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE!
We decided that sometimes we need to be like a tortoise and go slow and steady, and sometimes we need to be like a hare and go fast. We talked about when we might really need to be a tortoise, like coloring and handwriting.
We practiced going slow like a turtle and fast like a hare to this song:
If we had time, we also had a little race in the library:
My after school classes colored these masks and we had a lot of fun acting out the story.
Get masks here:
http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/rabbit-mask
http://www.supercoloring.com/coloring-pages/turtle-mask
For more ideas to go with this story go here:
I found the book on eBay here:
