Extension Activity Build your own Napping House Bed and Characters Challenge: Using materials you might find around your house, build your own Napping House Bed and Characters and stack them on the bed. (This activity can be done orally with a parent or written out on a piece of paper so that you can practice the spelling of descriptive words and the names of the characters) Who is snoring? _ Who is snoozing? _ Who is dozing? _ Who is dreaming? _ Who is slumbering? _ Word Work The Napping House is full of descriptive words that tell the reader that someone is sleeping Can you match the Descriptive Sleep Word to a Character in the Story? Print the picture above, or below and cut and paste the characters in the order in which they get into bed.

Go deep inside more books with our Book Dives.Using the picture above, or below, Write down the order that the characters get into the bed on a piece of paper.Įxample. Growing Book by Book has many more book activities for you. Read more cumulative books with the students. And, get The Napping House Activities as a thank you gift. The Napping House Activity Printablesīecome a VIP member of the Growing Book by Book community. In the napping house is a cozy bed piled high with a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, and a slumbering mouse. A dozing dog sleepson top of the dreaming child. As the story progresses, animals are added to thesleepy people on the cozy bed. Soon she isjoined by a dreaming child, who lies right on top ofthe snoring granny. The name of the animal ends with /t/ sound. THE NAPPING HOUSE is the simple, yet engagingstory of a napping house, where a granny lies soundasleep and snoring on her cozy bed. Give clues and have the students guess who is “in” the house.įor example, clues for the cat could include: Hide one of the animals or people under the house sheet. Match the ordinal numbers with the correct placement of each item.

Students can also trace the words on each picture card. Retell the story in sequence while adding the characters to the bed and then removing them. Print a color set for classroom use and laminate for durability if desired. Set Up: Print the b&w printables for each student. Materials Needed: Printables (b&w) for each student, colored printable (1 set), writing utensils Skills: Students will be working on beginning sound identification, writing, and ordinal number recognition The bed piles higher and higher from granny to the flea in the cumulative tale, The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood. So, let’s start stacking the bed with The Napping House activities.įull Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. We are going inside The Napping House and doing some fun beginning sound and ordinal number recognition activity ideas. A wonderful way to extend a read-aloud is with book activities .

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