Mo Willems Never Dissappoints

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Who can grab a PreK class' attention and keep a hold of it with very few words and hardly any pictures? You guessed it, Mo Willems. He is the fantastic author of a couple of my favorite characters, Elephant and Piggie.

 The four year olds in PreK-1 already know about Willems' pigeon on  "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus," but today I wanted to introduce them to Mo Willems' other very entertaining characters. So I pulled "I Love My New Toy!" off the shelf and as expected....the children loved it.  Something about the way Piggie and Elephant express themselves with the simplest facial changes and body language, help even the youngest of the students understand how Piggie and Elephant feel about the "broken toy."

By the end of the story several students kept repeating "break!...snap!" in unison.  To continue feeding their interest we visited Mo Willems' interactive website. Click Here to have some fun.  Thanks, Mo Willems!