Peek-A-Boo and Board Book Wrapped Into One!

Oftentimes I am reading to both my 2 year-old and 1 year-old at the same time. We were reading this book this morning, and I thought I'd write about how they both interacted with the book in such different ways, yet they were able to enjoy it together.

This book is called Guess Who Farm Friends. Each animal hides behind a certain body part that you move to reveal the animal and repetitive language - "Peekaboo! I'm a ______." The right side of the page has clues to read about the animal. The last page has all the animals in the book pop up all together.
So, when Shannon gets ahold of this book she plays with the part of the book that opens and closes. As she is opening and closing I am repeating, "Peekaboo!" which makes her then cover her eyes to play peekaboo. Then, Patrick usually says something like, "Look Shannon it's a sheep." Shannon continues to play with the open close part of the book while Patrick begins to explore the rest of the page. Look at the sheep. They are far away. Then I might say, Patrick which sheep is the most far away? And he points to it. We will look at the flowers and identify colors. We will notice the sheep is holding a flower. We will make sheep sounds. We will look at the sheep's ears. Today Patrick even spotted the words and said "What's that?" I told him it said peekaboo. I held his pointer finger and we traced underneath the word as we said Peekaboo together. Anytime we said peekaboo, Shannon covered her eyes and wanted to play with us. We laughed as we  interacted with the book.  At the end of the book we sang Old McDonald. Now, this just happens to be a favorite of Shannon's so it just made her day. When we got to the line "And on his farm he had a..." I would put to an animal and Patrick would scream the name. This book kept us entertained for at least 15 minutes this morning.

So, to sum it up here are 10 things we did with this book, and the reason why we did it.
1. Read the clues (fluent reading)
2. Identify animals (build vocabulary)
3. Make animal sounds (build vocabulary by putting animal name and sound together)
4. Lift flap to reveal animal (fine motor skills)
5. Point to objects in book. (build vocabulary)
6. Notice colors in book (build vocabulary)
7. Near/Far (build vocabulary, direction words)
8. Point to words (begin to realize books have words, words tell a story)
9. Play Peekaboo (object permanence, social interaction)
10. Sing Old McDonald (social interaction, singing, language development)

Your challenge - Choose a book and try to think of 5 things to do with the book as you read today.