July 26, 2017 Story Time - Community Workers - Chefs, Cooks & Bakers

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

*marks the books we read

Chefs and What They Do  by Liesbet Slegers*
Pink Cupcake Magic  by Katherine Tegen
The Berenstain Bears Cook-it  by Stan & Jan Berenstain
Mr. Cookie Baker  by Monica Wellington*
Wild Boars Cook  by Meg Rosoff & Sophie Blackall
Math in the Kitchen  by Kieran Shah
Pancakes, Pancakes  by Eric Carle
People Who Help Us - Chef  by Amanda Askew & Andrew Crowson*

The craft we made is found here:
https://goo.gl/BZWU8a

Extra activities:
We talked about what a chef wears, what tools they might use in their kitchen and what they might bake/cook

We played an egg toss game

July 19, 2017 Story Time - Community Workers - Bus Driver

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

*marks the books we read

Wheels On The Bus  by Raffi*
Bus-A-Saurus Bop  by Diane Z. Shore
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus  by Mo Willems*
School Bus  by Donald Crews*
My Bus  by Byron Barton*
Bunny Bus  by Ammi-Joan Paquette
The Smushy Bus  by Leslie Helakoski

For our craft we made a bus like this:

You can find it here:
https://goo.gl/NUYrK7

Extra activities
We played a guessing game where the children had to say what item was on the picture and what sound or action needed to be made, then we sang:

Wheels on the Bus
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
round and round, round and round,
the wheels on the bus go round and round
all through the town

the wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish
the horn on the bus goes beep,beep,beep
the door on the bus goes open and shut, open and shut, open and shut
the driver on the bus says "move on back", "move on back", "move on back"
the baby on the bus says "wah", "wah", "wah"
the mommy on the bus says "shh", "shh", "shh"
the people on the bus go up and down, up and down, up and down

The wheels on the bus go round and round,
round and round, round and round,
the wheels on the bus go round and round
all through the town

July 12, 2017 Story Time - Community Helpers - Firemen/women

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

*marks the books we read

This Is the Firefighter  by Laura Godwin*
Big Machines - Emergency! Emergency!  by Amelia Marshall
Dinosaur Goes To the Fire Station  by Ken Alside
Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do  by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook*
If You Were A...Firefighter  by Virginia Schomp
Machines At Work - Fire Trucks  by Maria T. Schmidt*
Fire Truck  by Peter Sis
My Neighborhood - The Fire Station  by Aaron Carr*
Hello, Fire Truck!  by Marjorie Blain Parker*
What If There Is a Fire?  by Anara Guard
Busy People Firefighter  by Ando Twin

For our craft we decorated a fire helmet like this one:

Extra activities
The Wheels on the Truck
The wheels on the truck go round and round,
round and round, round and round
the wheels on the truck go round and round
when they fight the fire

Extra verses:
The lights on the truck go blink, blink, blink
The siren on the truck goes woo, woo, woo
The ladder on the truck goes up and down, up and down, up and down
The hose on the truck goes swoosh, swoosh, swoosh

July 5, 2017 Story Time - Dinosaurs

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

*marks the books we read

Dinosaur Countdown  by Nicholas Oldland*
Dinosaur Parade  by Shari Halpern
How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?  by Jane Yolen & Mark Teague*
Where Did All the Dinos Go?  by Jim Benton
Dinosaur School-Dinosaur Colors  by Ava Saviola*

For our craft we covered a paper Brachiosaurus with tissue paper then glued it to a craft stick for a dinosaur puppet

Extra activities
Before we read Dinosaur Countdown we counted up to ten so we could countdown with the story

While we read Dinosaur Colors the children had to guess the colors of the dinosaurs and then think of other things that were the same color

Dinosaur, Dinosaur
Dinosaur, dinosaur turn around; dinosaur, dinosaur dig in the ground
dinosaur, dinosaur walk on your toes; dinosaur, dinosaur scratch your nose
dinosaur, dinosaur reach up high; dinosaur, dinosaur fly in the sky
dinosaur, dinosaur stomp your feet; dinosaur, dinosaur show your teeth
dinosaur, dinosaur give a roar; dinosaur, dinosaur sit on the floor