{"id":668,"date":"2010-05-21T08:39:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=668"},"modified":"2010-12-10T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T20:43:33","slug":"five-little-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/five-little-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Little Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And another of my feltboard favorites, used often and with great gusto:\u00a0 <em>Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree<\/em>, which I sometimes use as a simple fingerplay, and other times use in conjunction with Eileen Christelow&#8217;s book of the same name.\u00a0 The monkey that appears to be white in this photo is actually a pale blue (far more attractive).\u00a0 When presenting the story on the feltboard, I always have the children in attendance help me count out the monkeys, and sometimes we also name the colors of the various monkeys.\u00a0This feltboard story helps me to remember that simplicity is often the best approach when making felt figures.\u00a0 Click on image to enlarge:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"img_five-little-monkeys.JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_five-little-monkeys.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_five-little-monkeys.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"img_five-little-monkeys.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another of my feltboard favorites, used often and with great gusto:\u00a0 Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree, which I sometimes use as a simple fingerplay, and other times use in conjunction with Eileen Christelow&#8217;s book of the same name.\u00a0 The monkey that appears to be white in this photo is actually a pale &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/five-little-monkeys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Little Monkeys<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feltboard","category-storytime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}