August 27, 2014 Story Time - Cookies

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read


Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?  by Bonnie Lass*
No More Cookies!  by Paeony Lewis
Fortune Cookies  by Albert Bitterman*
YUM! A Tale of Two Cookies  by Jane Seymour
Who Put The Cookies in The Cookie Jar?  by George Shannon*
Calling All Cookies!  by Charles M. Schulz*
Honey Cookies  by Meredith Hooper
The Difference Between Babies & Cookies  by Mary Hanson
Cookies Bite-Size Life Lessons  by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

For our craft we colored different shaped cookies and glued them to a paper plate

Extra activities:

We talked about the letter "C" the sound it makes and words that start with "C"

Making Cookies
I am making cookie dough (hold out arms in a circle, like a bowl)
Round and round the beaters go (roll hands)
Add some flour from a cup (shake a pretend cup)
Stir and stir the batter up (stirring motion)
Roll them, cut them nice and neat (roll hands)
Put them on a cookie sheet (hold hands together)
Bake them, count them 1-2-3 (counting motion)
Serve them to my friends and me (take a bite!)

Who took the cookies?
Who took the cookies from the cookie jar?
Who me? Yes you!
Couldn't be! Then who?
(child's name) took the cookies from the cookie jar
Who me? Yes you!
Couldn't be! Then who?
(Continue with the other children's names)

August 20, 2014 Story Time - Spaghetti

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read


On Top of Spaghetti  by Paul Brett Johnson*
Spaghetti For Suzy  by Peta Coplans*
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!  by Marilyn Burns
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?  by Jane Yolen

For our craft we colored meatballs and glued them and some yellow yarn on a plate

Extra activities:

We talked about the letters "S", "N" and "P" the sounds they make and words that begin with those letters

Ten Little Meatballs
One little, two little, three little meatballs
Four little, five little, six little meatballs
Seven little, eight little, nine little meatballs
Ten little meatballs cooking in a pan
(Then we counted down from 10 to 1)

On Top of Spaghetti
On top of spaghetti
All covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball
When somebody sneezed
It rolled off the table
And onto the floor
My poor little meatball
Rolled out of the door
It rolled in the garden
And under a bush
My poor little meatball
Was nothing but MUSH!

August 13, 2014 Story Time - Carrots

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did:

*marks the books we read


CREEPY CARROTS!  by Aaron Reynolds*
The Carrot Seed  by Ruth Krauss*
The Princess and ...The Peas and Carrots  by Harriet Ziefert
Orange Food Fun  by Lisa Bullard*
Colors in Nature Orange  by Martha E. H. Rustad*
Carrot Soup  by John Segal*

For our craft we made creepy carrot puppets and taped them to a craft stick

Extra activities:

We talked about the letter "C" the sound it makes and words that begin with "C"

We talked about our favorite orange foods

August 6, 2014 Story Time - Food

If you missed this weeks story time here is what we did

*marks the books we read


Food Fight!  by Carol Diggory Shields*
I Will Never NOT EVER Eat a Tomato  by Lauren Child*
Worms for Lunch  by Leonid Gore
Too Pickley!  by Jean Reidy*
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs  by Judi Barrett
Chew, Chew, GULP!  by Jarrett J. Krosoczka*
Brownie & Pearl Grab a Bite  by Cynthia Rylant*

For our craft we made alpha bit soup by gluing Alpha Bit cereal onto a picture of a bowl

Extra activities:

We talked about the letter "F" the sound it makes and other words that start with "F"

We talked about our favorite foods and using good manners