November 26, 2014 Story Time - Building Block Award Books 2014

For the next two months we will be reading and voting on the 2014 Missouri Building Block award nominee books.

*marks the books we read


This Little Piggy  by Tim Harrington*
Ribbit!  by Rodrigo Folgueira*

For our craft we made a paper bag frog like the one found here:
http://goo.gl/55G3ob

Extra activities:
Little Frog
I'm a little frog (point to self)
sitting on a log
Listen to my song (hand to ear)
I sing it all day long (cup hands to mouth)
Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit!
If I'm hungry, I eat flies (hand to mouth)
and I can blink my eyes (blink)
I hop, and hop and hop (jump 3 times)
and then, I stop! (clap clap)

Two Mother Pigs
Two mother pigs lived in a pen (show thumbs)
each had four babies, and that made ten (show fingers & thumbs)
these four babies were black as night (thumb in palm, wiggle fingers)
these four babies were black and white (switch hands, repeat)
but all eight babies loved to play
and they rolled and rolled in the mud all day (roll hands)
at night, with their mother, they curled up in a heap (clasp hands)
and squealed and squealed till they fell fast asleep

November 19, 2014 Story Time - Building Block Award Books 2014

For the next two months we will be reading and voting on the 2014 Missouri Building Block award nominee books.

*marks the books we read


Count the Monkeys  by Mac Barnett*
Little Nelly's Big Book  by Pippa Goodhart*

For our craft we made a monkey mask like the one here:
http://goo.gl/h887oO

Extra activities:
We sang "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" and "Five Little Monkeys Swinging in the Tree"

November 12, 2014 Story Time - Turkeys & Thanksgiving

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

*marks the books we read


Gobble Gobble  by Cathryn Falwell*
I'm A Turkey  by Jim Arnosky
Turkey Day  by Grace Maccarone
Thanksgiving at Our House  by P.K. Hallinan*
Thanksgiving is For Giving Thanks  by Margaret Sutherland
The Best Thanksgiving Ever!  by Teddy Slater

For our craft we made a leaf turkey like the one pictured here:
http://goo.gl/tYTS0U

Extra Activities
We talked about the letter "T" the sound it makes and words that start with "T"

Mr. Turkey
Mr. Turkey's tail is big and wide (spread fingers)
He swings it when he walks (swing hands)
His neck is long (stretch neck or pull hands apart)
His chin is red (stroke chin)
And he gobbles when he talks (open and close hands and gobble)

Turkey Wore His Red Feather (sung to Mary Wore Her Red Dress)
Turkey wore his red feather, red feather, red feather
turkey wore his red feather, all day long!

Turkey wore his orange feather, orange feather, orange feather
turkey works his orange feather, all day long!

We repeated the song with yellow and brown feathers

Last line: Turkey wore his rainbow feathers, rainbow feathers, rainbow feathers
turkey wore his rainbow feathers, all Thanksgiving long!

I handed out several feathers of each color and had the children wave their feather when their color was sung about. Then all of the feathers were waved at the end to make a rainbow of feathers

November 5, 2014 Story Time - Building Block Award Books 2014

For the next two months we will be reading and voting on the 2014 Missouri Building Block Award Nominee books.

*marks the books we read


The two nominees we read this week were:
That is Not a Good Idea!  by Mo Willems*
Moo!  by David LaRochelle*
Extra books:
The Cow Who Clucked  by Denise Fleming*
Blue Goose  by Nancy Tafuri*
Out Foxed  by Mike Twohy*
Cock-a-doodle-doo, Creak, Pop-pop, Moo  by Jim Aylesworth

For our craft we made a simple origami fox like the one found here:
http://goo.gl/BfMbi2

Extra activities:
We played a color guessing game with the information found here:
http://goo.gl/V61okd
I made a copy of the coloring sheets with the poem for everyone