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| Back to School Preschool Storytime (First library storytime, handout with Every Child Ready to Read 2* literacy skills -- caregivers probably doing already, "intentional") |
Open with children or caregiver writing names on board -- Sing "Hello to..., so nice to see you" (print awareness activity)
Song: "Brand New Day" (sign language) from Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs
Action Song Book: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush – Sophie Fatus & Fred Penner (multicultural getting ready for school)
Book: Cleversticks – Bernard Ashley or Chu Chu's First Day at School -- Neil Gaiman (Other children seem to be able to do things Chu can't --until his giant sneeze) alternatives: Harry & the Dinosaurs Go to School – Ian Whybrow (print motivation – books that relate to your child’s interests), Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten -- Joseph Slate (ABC emphasis),
Flannel: "School Stuff" on p.206 of A Storytime Year -- Susan Dailey (silly guessing game -- vocabulary & narrative skills-shared storytelling, letter knowledge)
Song/Poster: ABC song
Book: Minerva Louise at School – Minerva Stoeke (booktalked series)
Singable Book: Mary Had a Little Lamb – Sarah Joseph Hale photographs by Bruce McMillan (nice version -- features a black girl in the photos)
Guessing Game Book: Mouse Views – Bruce MacMillan
Singable Book: Here we Go Round the Mulberry Bush – Will Hillenbrand (overcoming 1st day nerves)
DVD: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (letter knowledge) on PPR DVD “Sing-along Stories”
Song/Actions: The Wheels on the Bus (or can use Paul O. Zelinsky pop-up version)
Craft: Chicka inspired pictures:
Alternates: Song: (toothbrush): When You Wake up in the Morning
Books: If You Take a Mouse to School – Laura Numeroff,
Singable Book : The Little School Bus -- Carol Roth, Monsters Love School -- Mike Austin (2014), The Tiger Tail by Mike Boldt – child wakes up with a tail on the first day of school – accepting differences, First Day at Zoo School -- Sarah Dillard Confident Amanda the Panda and Anxious Alligator turn out to have just what the other needs to be friends.
*I also still point out ECRRI skills -- print motivation, etc. as well as the fun-based ECRR2 ones.
9.13, 9.14, 9.17 with craft
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