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

July 30, 2014 Story Time - Fish

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

*marks the books we read


The Pout-Pout Fish Goes to School  by Deborah Diesen*
Sea Horses  by Ann Herriges
Memoirs of a Goldfish  by Devin Scillian*
Ten Little Fish  by Audrey Wood
Drippy Fish  by Nicola Baxter*
Fish  by Karen Perez
A School of Fish  by Alex Kuskowski*
Over in the Ocean In a Coral Reef  by Marianne Berkes
Swim! Swim!  by Lerch*
How to Catch a Fish  by John Frank

For our craft we took a paper fish taped it to a craft stick then stuck the stick through a small paper plate that had a slit cut in it. We colored our plates to look like the ocean or an aquarium

Extra activities:

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

Five Little Fishes
Five little fishes swimming in the sea
teasing Mr shark you can't catch me
along comes Mr shark as quiet as can be and
SNAP!
(repeat with four little fishes, etc)

July 23, 2014 Story Time - Frogs

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

*marks the books we read


AH HA!  by Jeff Mack*
The Frog Who Could Not Croak  by Lavelle Carlson
See How They Grow Frog  by Kim Taylor*
Bad Frogs  by Thacher Hurd
Too Many Frogs!  by Ann and John Hassett*
Tadpoles and Frogs  by Anna Milbourne
One Frog Sang  by Shirley Parenteau*

The craft we made can be found here:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/puppets/frog/

Extra activities:

We sang along to "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" by Raffi

I'm a Little Frog
I'm a little frog (children sit with legs crossed)
Hopping on a log (bounce up and down)
Listen to my song (ribbit, ribbit)
I sleep all winter long (lay head against hands)
Wake up and peek out (peek between fingers)
Up I jump, all about (bounce up and down)
I catch flies (grabbing motion)
I wink my eyes (blink)
I hop and hop (bounce up and down)
And then I stop! (stop bouncing)

July 16, 2014 Story Time - Books and Reading

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

*marks the books we read


Count the Monkeys  by Mac Barnett*
Check it Out! Reading, Finding, Helping  by Patricia Hubbell
Boom! Boom! Boom!  by  Jamie A. Swenson
Which is Round? Which is Bigger?  by Mineko Mamada*
Open This Little Book  by Jesse Klausmeier
Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed  by Eileen Christelow
Old Black Fly  by Jim Aylesworth*
I Wish I Could....Read!  by Tiziana Bendall-Brunello
How Rocket Learned to Read  by Tad Hills
Reading Makes You Feel Good  by Todd Parr*
Look! A Book!  by Bob Staake
Monster Knows Shapes  by Lori Capote*
How Do You Read to a Rabbit?  by Andrea Wayne von Konigslow

We colored a reading crown purchased from Oriental Trading, Inc.

Extra activities:

We talked about the letters "B" and "R" the sounds they make and words that begin with "B" and "R"

Counting
We counted to ten and back down to 0

What Shape is This?
(sung to the "Muffin Man")
Do you know what shape this is
what shape this is, what shape this is
do you know what shape this is
I'm holding in my hand?

I asked everyone to guess the shapes I had and what color they were:
Circle, square, triangle, diamond, rectangle, oval, star