Welcome to the FARM!

The FARM was the focus of our storytime today.

We did our regular welcome song: If your happy and you know it and tried doing the ABC song to a different tune.  I used Mary had a little Lamb.  The kids did pretty good.  We may have to practice some more.

BOOKS READ:
HURRY! HURRY by Eve Bunting
GOING TO SLEEP ON THE FARM by Wendy Lewison
FUNNY FARM by Jack Tickle (a pop up book)

ACTIVITIES:
We did "The Farmer in the Dell"
An action activity called "open the barn door".
We pulled out word strips/pictures out of a box and the kids determined if they could be found on a farm or not.

CRAFT:
I have sticker of farm stuff.  The kids choose a sticker and then took a paper plate and created a farm on it.  Then they put the sticker on a magnet, took another magnet under the plate and ran their animals around the farm.  They looked great and where super easy to do.

Thanks for coming!  Cya next week.

WORMS!!!

With Earth Day coming up, we talked about worms today.  I didn't get any pictures taken today, sorry!

Books Read: ABC Sign Language - found a cool ABC book with the Signs so used it today to go through the ABCS with the kids.

WINNIE FINN, WORM FARMER! by Carol Brendler
WORMS FOR LUNCH by Leonid Gore
INCH BY INCH by Leo Lionni

Also showed pictures of worms from non-fiction books called EARTHWORMS and WEIRD, WILD, AND WONDERFUL WORMS.

Games:  Played find the worm.  Hid a worm under apples and took turns finding it.

Wiggle Worm Song.

I showed the kids a video that i found online of an inchworm on a kids hands.

Craft:  Colored Wila Worm today.

Everyone did a great job.  I was glad to see everyone and hope to see you all next week.

Happy Earth Day!

Chris

Whats Up At the ZOO?!!

We had a ZOO storytime yesterday.  It was a lot of fun sharing and playing with the kids.

Books Read:  Gladys goes out to lunch by Derek Anderson
When Lulu went to the Zoo by Andy Ellis
My Heart is like a Zoo by Michael Hall

Songs/fingerplays:  Old Mac Donalds' Zoo
If I were an animal in the Zoo . . .
Elephant, Elephant
If you're a . . .(tune If you're happy)

Flannel Board/Game:  Matched animals to their habitat (place they lived)

Craft:  I found a cool idea online for making a zoo.
Take a piece of paper, fold in half.  On one side cut out a rectangle in the middle, then hole punch hole above and blow the cut out part.  Have the kids decorate then take pipe cleaner and place it across the holes, twisting it through the holes.  Then take a small baggie and place some animal crackers inside, staple the side together and slide your bag of animals in from the top.  This should place the animals behind the bars showing animals in your zoo.  The kids had fun with this, especially eating their zoo animals!

BUTTERFLIES!

BUTTERFLIES WAS THE TOPIC OF OUR STORYTIME THIS WEEK.

BOOKS READ:  CHARLIE THE CATERPILLAR BY DOM DEL LUISE

WAITING FOR WINGS BY LOIS EHLERT

TOESTOMPER AND THE BAD BUTTERFLIES BY SHARLEEN COLLICOTT

CRAFT:  BUTTERFLY MASKS

EXCELLENT JOB!

CYA NEXT WEEK!