The 1st Thanksgiving

As we did not have a storytime last week due to Thanksgiving we had our thanksgiving storytime today.  After our warm up song, we discussed the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and the Indians.

Books used:
Sarah Morton's Day,(A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl)
The Littlest Pilgrim by Brandi Dougherty
Thanksgiving is . . . by Gail Gibbons

Activity's:
I showed them how to be boats, by putting feet together, holding hands and rocking back and forth and we sang and song to the tune of Row, Row, Row your boat about pilgrims sailing.

Craft:
We made indian headbands.  The kids did a great job.  Here are some photos of the day:

OOPS!  It is not letting me upload the pictures.  I will check back and add them later when I find out why they are not working.

Have a great day!

Safari

Enterprise Storytime went on a trip today.  We took the kids on a SAFARI(without ever leaving the room of course!).

We read the following books:

HIPPOSPOTAMUS BY JEANNE WILLIS

WHAT TO DO IF AN ELEPHANT STANDS ON YOUR FOOT BY MICHELLE ROBINSON

ROAR! A NOISY COUNTING BOOK BY PAMELA D EDWARDS

and WAY FAR AWAY ON A WILD SAFARI BY JON PECK

 

I took the kids on a safari using the finger/action play called "LET'S GO FOR A JUNGLE WALK"  that goes like this:  Let's go for a jungle walk (beckon with hand), and listen to the animals talk (cup hand behind ear), Grab your binoculars and we're on our way! (hold up binoculars).  Look at the great big Crocodile (look through binoculars), Doesn't he have a beautiful smile? We could watch him swim all night and day.  Then it goes on with other animals, like a monkey, giraffe, zebra and snake.  I had pictures around the room of the different animals and as we went through each verse and did the different actions we turned around and looked for the different animals through our binoculars (hands).  The suggestion in the book that I found this idea suggested giving them the binoculars during the finger play but I felt it would be to hard to get them back this the amount of kids that I have.

 

Our craft for the day was to decorate their own pair of binoculars.  I pre made these due to using stapler and tying knots.  I felt it would get to confusing trying to do each one due to the amount of kids participating.  Anyway, cut a piece of cardstock in half the long way.  Take the short ends and roll them into the middle so that you have two circles, then staple both sides.  Puch holes in each side and tie a piece of yarn through them so they can hang around the neck.  I had some animal foam stickers I let them decorate them with.  Here are some picture:

Thanks everyone!

 

Next week is the day before thanksgiving.  We will be having storytime.  I am going to try to do something with pilgrims and the first thanksgiving.  Hope to see you there.  Chris

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I invited the kids to come dressed up if they wanted to storytime as it is Halloween today.  We had a few takers.  They looked cute in their costumes.

As it is Halloween, we read Halloween stories today:
THE MONSTERS' MONSTER by Patrick McDonnell (cute book!)
JUST SAY BOO! by Susan Hood and
THE LITTLE OLD LADY WHO WAS NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING by Linda Williams (this one I did with stick puppets)

 

 

We did the Skeleton Dance and If you're a Monster and you know it for songs today.

 

Craft:  I gave them bags and stickers to decorate and then they went trick or treating in the library.

 

Thank you for checking out our blog.  Have a safe and happy Halloween!
Chris



TURKEYS!

I don't know what happened to the Halloween post because I did post it but I noticed it didn't save it.  I will repost it after this one.

Today we talked about TURKEYS.
We read the following books:
ALL ABOUT TURKEYS by Jim Arnosky
10 FAT TURKEYS by Tony Johnston
TURK AND RUNT by Lisa Wheeler

Activities:

Match the feathers to the turkey

Song:  We're Going on a Turkey Hunt.

Craft:
Turkey hands and name plate for bulletin board.

Here is the completed bulletin board:

Thanks everyone!