August 15, 2018 Story Time - The Alphabet

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

*marks the books we read

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom  by Bill Martin, Jr.*
ABC School's For Me!  by Susan B. Katz
LMNO peas  by Keith Baker*
Do Your ABC's Little Brown Bear  by Jonathan London
Alphabet Fun: making letters with your body  by Isabel Thomas

For our craft we made a caterpillar using this pattern:

Extra activities
We played a letter guessing game. I held up a letter of the alphabet and the children had to guess which letter if was and try to think of a word that started with that letter

August 8, 2018 Story Time - Off to School

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

*marks the books we read

My First Day at Nursery School  by Becky Edwards*
If You Take a Mouse to School  by Laura Numeroff
Kindergarten is Cool  by Linda E. Marshall
Manners at School  by Carrie Finn*
The Pout Pout Fish Goes to School  by Deborah Diesen

For our craft we make a school bus craft like the one pictured here:
https://goo.gl/tnj1MA

Extra activities
We sang "The Wheels on the Bus"

August 1, 2018 Story Time - Monkeys

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

*marks the books we read

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed  by Eileen Christelow*
Where Can That Silly Monkey Be?  by Jodie Shepherd
Caps For Sale  by Esphyr Slobodkina*
Little Monkey Lost  by Keith DuQuette
Two Little Monkeys  by Mem Fox*
Seven Spunky Monkeys  by Jackie French Koller
All About Monkeys  by Jared Siemens*
Monkey Colors  by Darrin Lunde*

For our craft we made a monkey CD puppet like the one found here:
https://goo.gl/EuXMkH

Extra activities
We sang "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed"

July 25, 2018 Story Time - Wheels on the Bus

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

*marks the books we read

Wheels On The Bus  by Raffi*
Bus! Stop!  by James Yang*
ABCs On Wheels  by Ramon Olivera
The Wheels on the Bus  by Ann Owen
The Bus is For Us!  by Michael Rosen*
The Wheels on the Bus  by Jane Cabrera*

This is the craft we made:

You can find the information for the craft here:
https://goo.gl/tnj1MA


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

repeat with verses:
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish
the driver on the bus goes "move on back", "move on back", "move on back"
the people on the bus go up and down, up and down, up and down
the horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep
the babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah
the parents on the bus go shh, shh, shh

July 18, 2018 Story Time - Five Speckled Frogs

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

*marks the books we read

Five Speckled Frogs  Retold by Steven Anderson*
One Frog Sang  by Shirley Parenteau*
Ribbit  by Jorey Hurley*

For our craft we colored a paper frog, glued him to a lily pad and then to a blue piece of paper. We added paper flies and flowers and a piece of yarn for his tongue

Extra activities
Little Tadpole (sung to "Frere Jacques")
Little tadpole, little tadpole
lost his tail, lost his tail
now he has two feet
now he has four feet
look a frog! look a frog!

Five Little Frogs (we filled in the blank (underlined word) with animals the children picked)
Five little frogs
were down at the pond, down at the pond at play
along came a hungry alligator
and chased one frog away
four little frogs
were down at the pond, down at the pond at play
along came a wiggly snake
and chased one frog away
three little frogs
were down at the pond, down at the pond at play
along came a giant fox
and chased one frog away
two little frogs
were down at the pond, down at the pond at play
along came a purple bear
and chased one frog away
one little frog
was down at the pond, down at the pond at play
along came a flying eagle
and chased one frog away
then no little frogs
were down at the pond, down at the pond at play
where do you think the little frogs went
when they all hopped away?

July 11, 2018 Story Time - The Itsy Bitsy Spider

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

*marks the books we read

The Itsy Bitsy Spider  by Iza Trapani*
Little Miss Muffet  by Iza Trapani*
The Tickly Spider  by Margaret Wise Brown*
The Itsy Bitsy Spider  by Lorianne Siomades
Frank the Seven-Legged Spider  by Michaele Razi*

For our craft we wound yarn around a small paper plate with notches cut around the edges to make a web, then added a plastic spider.

Extra activities
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the waterspout
down came the rain and washed the spider out
out came the sun and dried up all the rain
and the Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the spout again

Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
eating her curds and whey
along came a spider
who sat down beside her
and frightened Miss Muffet away

Spider facts:
Spiders don't have antenna, which separates them from insects
An increase of spiderwebs in your house may be a sign of cold weather coming
Crabs are distant relatives of spiders
Some spiders hunt by spitting poisonous fluid to immobilize their prey
Spiders are nearsighted, which means they can't see things far away
The blood of a spider is light blue (please don't kill any spiders just to see if this is true!)

July 3, 2018 Story Time - Ice Cream

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

*marks the books we read

July is National Ice Cream month so we read stories about ice cream, then had some ice cream!!

The Little Ice Cream Truck  by Margery Cuyler*
From Milk to Ice Cream  by Stacy Taus-Bolstad
Groovy Joe Ice Cream & Dinosaurs  by Eric Litwin*
Ice Cream Soup  by Ann Ingalls*
Make Mine Ice Cream  by Melvin Berger*

For our craft we decorated an ice cream cone like this one: