Storytime Craft: "Build It!”

 

10 a.m. PreSchool Storytime/Activity:

Entering Music: Tracks 5-7 on Fred Penner’s album Collections

Book: Raise the Roof by Anastasia Suen (fiction with non-fiction elements: sequence of building a house; extend vocabulary – asking children who puts in the pipes? “plumber”, what are wires for? “electricity” etc.) (Alt: If I Built a House by Chris Van Doren (great if kids are old enough), Jack’s House by Karen Magnuson Beil  (cute story but repetition somewhat tedious) or I Can Build a House by Shigeo Watanabe (young))

Song: New House (Tune: London Bridge)

Let’s all build a brand new house,
Brand new house, brand new house,
Let’s all build a brand new house,
Let’s get started!

First we’ll dig a great big hole…
Let’s keep going!

Then we’ll put in walls and floors…
Let’s keep going!

Now it’s time to raise the roof…
Let’s keep going!

Then put out the welcome mat…
We’ll have a party!

“Here’s a story of mouse looking for a house of her own…”
Flannel: Mouse House  (concepts: colors & shapes) (mouse finger puppet, flannel shapes script here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/02/pre-school-storytime-mousing-around.html)

Fingerplay: Quiet Mouse
Once there lived a quiet mouse   (hold out fist with index finger extended)
In a quiet little house.  (insert index finger into other fist)
When all was quiet as can be
Out Popped He!! (throw arms and hands apart)

Book: Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale  (showed pictures discussing child-made and architect-made buildings, only read some of the poems)

Participatory/Action Storytelling:  Act out traditional story: The Three Little Pigs (Supplies: 3 pigs and wolf puppets (laminated enlarged clip art mounted on chopsticks work), yellow, brown, and red sheets of paper photocopied with “straw”, “sticks”, and “bricks” patterns, optional parachute.)  details: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/03/houses-homes-and-habitats.html

Action Song: In and Out of Doors by Susan Dailey http://www.susanmdailey.com/houses.htm

Interactive/Guessing Game Book: Not a Box  by Antoinette Portis

STEM Playground Building Materials (Music: Fred Penner’s album “Collections”)

• Toobers and Zots
• Foam Shapes
• Straws & Connectors
• Duplo
• Keva Blocks
• Magnetic Blocks / Magnatiles
• Lego
• B&T cardboard, markers, tape, glue

 

4:30 p.m. STEAM plans (3-6 & K-4)

Book: If I Built a House by Chris Van Doren (booktalked his If I Built a Car)

Flannel: Mouse House 

Book: Top Job by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel  (booktalked Sky Boys by Deborah Hopkinson)

Participatory/Action Storytelling:  Act out traditional story: The Three Little Pigs

Book: Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale  (showed pictures discussing child-made and architect-made buildings, only read some of the poems)

STEM playground same as above.

12/5/17 BWL