May 18, 2016 Story Time - Airplanes

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

*marks the books we read

Dinosoaring  by Deb Lund*
Hugo the flying firefighter  by Lorette Broekstra
Go, Go, Planes!  by Price Stern Sloan
A Plane Goes Ka-Zoom!  by Jonathan London*
Planes  by Fiona Patchett
Pilots  by Cecilia Minden & Mary Minden-Zins
Planes Fly  by George Ella Lyon*
Wake Up Engines  by Denise Dowling Mortensen
Going on an Airplane  by Fred Rogers
Airplanes Soraing! Turning! Diving!  by Patricia Hubbell*

For our craft we glued clothes pins and craft sticks together and then decorated them with markers

Extra activities
The Airplane
The airplane has great big wings (stretch arms out)
it's propeller spins around and sings, "Vvvvv!" (roll hands around each other)
the airplane goes up (life arms up)
the airplane goes down (lower arms)
the airplane flies high (stretch arms out and spin around)
Over the town!

May 11, 2016 Story Time - Things That Go!

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

*marks the books we read

Who is Driving?  by Leo Timmers*
Things That Go!  by James Buckley, Jr.
Cars Rushing! Honking! Zooming  by Patricia Hubbell
A Truck Goes Rattley-Bumpa  by Jonathan London
My Car  by Byron Barton*
Let's Go - The Story of Getting From There to Here  by Lizann Flatt
The Pigeon Loves Things That Go!  by Mo Willems*
Cars! Cars! Cars!  by Grace Maccarone
Toot Toot Zoom!  by Phyllis Root
Little Blue Truck  by Alice Schertle
Transportation - True or False?  by Daniel Nunn*

For our craft we colored a dump truck like this one. We added a braid to the bed so it would move

Extra activities
The 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 doors on the bus go open and shut
the driver on the bus says "move on back"
the people on the bus go up and down

We played a "things that go" guessing game. I gave clues about certain forms of transportation and the children had to guess what they were

May 4, 2016 Story Time - Mother's Day

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

*marks the books we read

The Night Before Mother's Day  by Natasha Wing*
I Would Tuck You In  by Sarah Asper-Smith and Mitchell Watley
All the Things I Love About You  by LeUyen Pham
I Love You Because You're You  by Liza Baker*
I Love my Mommy  by Giles Andreae
I'd Know You Anywhere, My Love  by Nancy Tillman
Snuggle Wuggle  by Jonathan London*
Something for Mother  by Laura Alden
Gus Makes a Gift  by Frank Remkiewicz
Me and My Mom!  by Alison Ritchie*
Is Mommy?  by Victoria Chang

For our craft I designed a custom door hangar for mother's day using this website:
http://goo.gl/ic7d42

We also colored a special bookmark

Extra activities
I Have a Very Special Friend (sung to "Bingo")
I have a very special friend
and mommy is her name-o
m-o-m-m-y, m-o-m-m-y, m-o-m-m-y
and mommy is her name-o

Happy Mother's Day to You (sung to "Happy Birthday")
Happy mother's day to you
happy mother's day to you
happy mother's day, dear mommy
happy mother's day to you!

April 27, 2016 Story Time - The Wind

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

*marks the books we read

When the Wind Blows  by Linda Booth Sweeney*
The Stormy Day Rescue  by Norman Bridwell
It's Windy Today  by Kristin Sterling
What Does the Wind Say?  by Wendi Silvano*
Windblown  by Edouard Manceau
Peppa's Windy Fall Day  by Barbara Winthrop*
The Wind Blew  by Pat Hutchins
Storm is Coming  by Heather Tekavec*
Whoosh Went the Wind!  by Sally Derby

For our craft we made a butterfly windsock like the one pictured here:
http://goo.gl/FGekIZ

Extra activities:
We listed things that moved when the wind blows

April 20, 2016 Story Time - Rainbows

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

*marks the books read

I Am a Rainbow  by Dolly Parton*
A Rainbow of My Own  by Don Freeman
Planting a Rainbow  by Lois Ehlert
Moonbear's Skyfire  by Frank Asch
Red, Blue, and Yellow, Too!  by Ellen Booth Church & Diane Ohanesian*
Ruby's Rainbow  by Rosemary Wells*

For our craft we colored a picture of a rainbow like this one:
http://goo.gl/0QYOlj
then we glued it to a piece of blue paper and added cotton balls for clouds

April 13, 2016 Story Time - April Showers

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

*marks the books we read

Boom! Boom! Boom!  by Jamie A. Swenson*
Mud!  by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Tap Tap Boom Boom  by Elizabeth Bluemle
Rain  by Marion Dane Bauer*
Splish, Splash, Flappy Ducks  by Ann Tobias
Olga the Cloud  by Nicoletta Costa*
Who Likes Rain?  by Wong Herbert Yee
Mud Puddle  by Robert Munsch

For our craft we decorated a picture with colored flowers.

Extra activities:

Flower fingerplay
A hand is a bud
closed up tight (close hand into a fist)
without a tiny speck of light
then slowly the petals
open for me (slowly open hand, one finger at a time)
and here is a beautiful flower I see!

Flower Song (tune: "My Darling Clementine")
Yellow, flowers, blue flowers, red flowers I can see
pink flowers, orange flowers, gold flowers I can see
purple flowers, purple flowers, purple flowers I can see
all the flowers in the garden, in the garden, I can see
(while I sang, the children held up flowers on craft sticks that matched the colors in the song)

Pretty Flowers (tune "Jingle Bells")
Pretty flowers, pretty flowers, growing everywhere
here are some pretty flowers, hold them in the air
pretty flowers, pretty flowers, gold and pink and blue
red and yellow, orange and purple, I picked them just for you!
(while I sang, the children held up flowers on craft sticks that matched the colors in the song)

April 6, 2016 Story Time - Spring

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

*marks the books we read

When Spring Comes  by Kevin Henkes*
Splish, Splash, Spring  by Jan Carr
Word Bird's Spring Words  by Jane Moncure*
Spring is Here  by Will Hillenbrand
Is It Spring?  by Linda Ruggieri*
Tap the Magic Tree  by Christie Matheson
April  by Robyn Brode*
Wake Up, It's Spring!  by Lisa Campbell Ernst

For our craft we made spring hats. The pattern used was copied from the book "Kindergarten Teacher's Month by Month" page 273

Extra activities:
Five Little Flowers
One little flower growing just for you
up came another and then there were two
two little flowers growing near a tree
up came another and then there were three
three little flowers growing more and more
up came another and then there were four
four little flowers growing side by side
up came another and then there were five