The Winners of the 2nd Annual Houston Public Library Children's Book Celebration

  Congratulations to the 8 winners from Little Wonders Learning Center! 

Some of the children entered in the 2nd Annual Houston Public Library Children's Book Celebration Contest for illustrating for the caption, "If You Give a Kid a Book".  Fifty winners were rewarded with a whimsical catered lunch, and an autographed copy of Laura Numeroff's book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

All of the winning illustrations were displayed in the lunch area.....

Nohea said, "If you give a kid a book, she will want it to be a book about princesses and then she will dress up like a princess with hearts on her dress."

  Tirza said, "She will want it to be a book about a robot in the snow, and she will want to read it before she goes to bed."

Dimi said, "He will read about bugs and then he will want to go outside and catch a bug.  And when he catches a bug, he will want to keep it as a pet."

Kyle said, "He is going to learn about space.  He will learn the planets' names, and then he will get on a rocket ship and go to the moon."

Ashley said, "She will like to read about mermaids and pretend she was a mermaid playing with her mermaid friends."

Trevor said, "It will help him learn about the lions in Africa, and then he will want to go on an African safari to see real lions."

Kiersten said, "He will read about dinosaurs and want to make a dinosaur flag."

Mateo said, "He will read a superhero book, and then he will want to dress up and pretend to fly."

The author, Laura Numeroff, spoke at the lunch and congratulated all of the winners!

The children enjoyed a whimsical lunch that was inspired by all of Laura Numeroff's books!

The children had so much fun, and we are so proud of them!  The contest had more than 200 entries, with 50 winners.  Eight of the 50 winners were from Little Wonders!!!!!

The Bug Project

We were outside the other day and Ms. Fauzia found a "torture beetle" aka Cicada Bug.  Ricky told everyone that it was a Torture Beetle and it eats grass.

Kaelynn came along and told everyone that it really was a Cicada.  She had everyone convinced except Ricky!  He was set on it being a Torture Beetle!

The children had fun following it, flipping it over, and throwing grass on it so it could eat!  We have started doing more photography with the children, so we passed the camera along to them and these are some of the shots they took........

by Ricky

By Noah

by Jonathan

by Tirza

The Cicada had trouble climbing the building, it kept falling off.

Everyone thought he might be able to climb better on the tree, so we brought it over to the tree and let it climb.  It fell again, and Noah started crying because he thought the Cicada was going to die!

He ran over to the fence and sat down to cry, when Ricky came to console him.  He assured Noah that the Cicada didn't die, and they were going to be nice to it! 

Noah got up and went back with the group and we are happy to say that the Cicada survived the afternoon with our children! ;0)

This has sparked a BIG bug project in our class.  We are reading, drawing and making books about bugs.  Our library is growing!  Please take a few minutes to read some of the childrens' books in the check in area. 

The children are also starting to do more research on the computer to find out more about the bugs.  One parent suggested the show Monster Bug Wars.  For those of you who have the channel, it comes on Tuesdays at 8 on the Science Channel

For more information on the show click on the following link

http://science.discovery.com/tv/monster-bug-wars/

Feel free to ask the teachers to see our progress on the bug project in the classroom!