Bugs!

Books we read:

Leo the Lightning Bug by Eric Drachman

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Willy the Worm by Christianne Jones

Today's storytime theme was bugs.  We had a lot of fun today.  We started out with a bug hunt!  I told the children that someone left the doors open in the library last night and a whole bunch of bugs got in and we needed their help to gather them up.  I had paper bugs taped all over the room, gave each of the children a paper jar, and let them go aroung and collect the bugs.  Thay had a lot of fun doing this!

Next we read two books:

Leo the Lightning Bug by Eric Drachman

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Then we sang a song:

The Ladybug has Spots

(Sung to "The Farmer in the Dell")

The lady bug has spots.

The lady bug has spots.

Can you count the number of

This ladybug's spots?

I held up a ladybug with a different number of spots for each round and let the children tell me how many spots they counted.

Our final book was:

Willy the Worm by Christianne Jones

For the craft, we made caterpillars!  All you need is colored paper (cut into large circles and small circles), yarn, and colorful straws (cut at different lenghts), wiggle eyes, and crayons.  Glue the yarn between two large cirles, glue eyes on the circle and draw a mouth.  Then string different colors of straw "beads" to make the body.  Glue the end of the yarn between two small circles.  Don't forget a cute name!