December 28, 2016 Story Time - Winter

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

*marks the books we read

When Winter Comes  by Nancy Van Laan*
Boot Weather  by Judith Vigna
Baby Bear Counts One  by Ashley Wolff*
Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit - A Book of Changing Seasons  by Il Sung Na*
I see Winter  by Charles Ghigna*
Lionel in the Winter  by Stephen Krensky
Winter  by Ann Herriges

For our craft we made this:
https://goo.gl/MUne5V

Extra activities:
We talked about what we like to do in the winter: play in the snow, go sledding, make snowmen, make snow angels, catch snow flakes on our tongues, etc

Ten Little Snowmen
One little, two little, three little snowmen
four little, five little, six little snowmen
seven little, eight little, nine little snowmen
ten little snowmen standing in the snow

December 21, 2016 Story Time - Santa

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

*marks the books we read

Shhh!  by Julie Sykes*
Santa is coming to Missouri  by Steve Smallman
Word Bird's Christmas Words  by Jane Belk Moncure*
Click, Clack, Ho! Ho! Ho!  by Doreen Cronin*
Santa's Busy Night  by Michael Rex*
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas  by Eric Litwin*

For our craft we made a paper bag santa with this pattern:
https://goo.gl/5keO8V

Extra activities:
Old St. Nicholas
Old St. Nicholas had a tree
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
and on his tree he had some horns
ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
with a honk, honk here
and a honk, honk there
here a honk, there a honk
everywhere a honk, honk
old St. Nicholas had a tree
ho, ho, ho, ho, ho

repeat verses with:
had some drums, (with a boom, boom)
had some candy canes (with a yum, yum)
had some lights (with a flash, flash)
had some stars (with a twinkle, twinkle)

December 14, 2016 Story Time - Reindeer

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

*marks the books we read

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer  by Barbara Shook Hazen (adapted from the story by Robert L. May)*
Rudolph's Bag of Toys*
Caribou and Reindeer Too  by Joyce L. Markovics
Uncles and Antlers  by Lisa Wheeler
Rudolph's Christmas Party!  by Mary Man-Kong*
Olive the Other Reindeer  by J. Otto Siebold
Rudolph Shines Again  by Robert L. May

For our craft we made a reindeer ornament like this one:
https://goo.gl/tTOaQj

Extra activities:
We sang "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"

Little Reindeer
One little, two little, three little reindeer
four little, five little, six little reindeer
seven little, eight little, nine little reindeer
ten little reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh
(then we counted back down to none)

Call Rudolph
Eight little reindeer pulling Santa's sled
one fell down and bumped his head
the elves called Santa and Santa said
"can seven little reindeer pull my sled?"

seven little reindeer.....
six little reindeer.....
five little reindeer....
four little reindeer....
three little reindeer....
two little reindeer.....

One little reindeer pulling Santa's sled
he fell down and bumped his head
the elves called Santa and Santa said
"Call Rudolph!"

December 7, 2016 Story Time - Sweet Stories

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

*marks the books we read

If You Give A Cat A Cupcake  by Laura Numeroff*
The Christmas Gingerbread Man  by Nancy Parent
The Gingerbread Man  by Mairi Mackinnon*
Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast  by Josh Funk
Eight Animals Bake a Cake  by Susan Middleton Elya*
If You Give A Mouse A Brownie  by Laura Numeroff*
If You Give A Dog A Donut  by Laura Numeroff

For our craft we colored and decorated a cupcake like this one, then taped it to a craft stick

Extra activities

Pat-a-cake
pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man
bake me a cake as fast as you can
roll it
and pat it
and mark it with a "B"
and put it in the oven for baby and me

Ten little cupcakes
one little, two little, three little cupcakes
four little, five little, six little cupcakes
seven little, eight little, nine little cupcakes
ten little cupcakes for us to eat