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

School Age Storytime–Our Place in Space

K-2 grade STEAM storytime

 

If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty – This fanciful trip to the moon with a young astronaut is full of fascinating real-life facts, from the distance the moon (240,000 miles, approximately 100x the distance from NJ->CA) to what would happen to your weight on the moon (reduced gravity means that a 60lb. kid would weigh approximate 10lbs.) to what would happen to your orange juice in zero gravity (floating orange blobs) and more. The return to earth makes a strong case for appreciating the biodiversity on our blue planet.

Action: Do You Want to Go With Me To the Moon? (Source Unknown)
Do You Want to Go With Me To the Moon?
Let’s get in our rocket ship & blast off soon.
Faster and faster we reach to the sky.
Isn’t it fun to be able to fly?
We’re on the moon, now all take a look
And gently sit down, and I’ll show you a book!

Big Bang: The Tongue Tickling Tale of a Speck that Became Spectacular by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofana  (Imaginatively-written explanation of the big bang explains this mighty idea in accessible ways – e.g. comparing the original speck to a backpack with “your books, clothes, lunchbox…plus 100 Mt. Everests, the sun, some stars, and 100 galaxies…”

Older than the Stars by Karen C. Fox (Didn’t have time for this whole book so shared excerpts without the repetitive verse… started with the opening page “You are older than the dinosaurs…older than the stars”  through the bang and the bits (protons, neutrons, electrons), to atoms for the stars (hydrogen, helium), supernovas to our sun, earth and life upon it made of atoms of carbon, iron, etc. to humans 600,000 breathing air once breathed by dinosaurs…  timeline at the end chronicles 11 3/4 BILLION years!)

Ended with singable book:  Knick, Knack, Paddywhack by Marissa Moss (Kids guessing what he is making!)

Bedm 12/1/17  http://www.newsweek.com/supermoon-2017-full-cold-moon-728118

"Life, the Universe, and Everything!" (with a nod to Douglas Adams,
author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.") 

Big Bang: The Tongue-Tickling Tale of a Speck That Became Spectacular
--523.18 DECRISTOFANO (alliteration meets marvelous description of this amazing event)
Martian Rock - Shields  (Martians venture through the solar system and finally find life on the "third orb" - penguins! -- great lead-in to the next book which showed how our thinking changed as we learned more about the night sky...)
Boy, Were We Wrong About the Solar System! -- 523.3 KUDLINSKI
Flannel: Moonkey -Thayer (some classes)  (nice friendship story)
We -- 599-938 SCHERTLE (some classes)   (a lyrical look at 4 million years of human history)
Nightgown of the Sullen Moon -- Willard (modern myth)

11/3/10 Bedm K-4

Cute book recom by Helen Peterson  How to Bicycle to the Moon & Plant Sunflowers by Mordicai Gerstein

Thanksgiving–AfterSchool Outreach

Book: The Perfect Thanksgiving by Eileen Spinelli (alternatives: Thank You Sarah by Laurie Halse Anderson or Thanksgiving at the Tappletons by Eileen Spilnelli or other book and song ideas here: School Age Storytime: Thanksgiving and Immigration)

Towel folding story: The Case of the Missing Thanksgiving Turkey -- Rhonda Turley  (text and technique at http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-storytimes-preschool-and.html )

 

Book: How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting (some groups) (A family fleeing an unnamed country (likely Cuba) finds sanctuary on American shores on Thanksgiving Day.)

Glove Puppets : Uno, Dos, Tres Amigos (reinforces idea that we all have come from different places but celebrate together; enumeration practice, learn/reinforce Spanish language numbers)
Diez Amigos "10 Friends" (glove puppets)Tune: “10 Little Indians”
Uno, dos, tres amigos,
Quatro, cinco, seis amigos,
Siete, Ocho, Nueve amigos,
Diez amigos son.
One, two, three friends,
Four, five, six friends,
Seven, Eight, Nine friends,
Ten friends are we.

Pop Up Book/Song: America the Beautiful by Robert Sabuda (extraordinary pop up cut outs of iconic American icons from the Golden Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore to the Statue of Liberty)

Song/Prop: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (based on the book by Alison Jackson – cut out mounted woman below)

Book(some groups – especially younger):  Setting the Turkeys Free by W. Nikola-Lisa

Song: The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven (words: Jack Prelutsky, chorus: Cathy Darby)Tune: “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” Lyrics below and here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-storytimes-preschool-and.html  Check it out on Youtube, subtitled in Chinese!

 

Craft: Make your own hungry old lady, handprint turkey scene, or pop-up version of the Prelutsky kitchen disaster!  (Baker & Taylor 12x18” cardboards, paper template old lady & food, markers or crayons, scissors, tape, and ziploc sandwich bags)

full size: https://docs.google.com/a/sclibnj.org/document/d/1MEVQbRVO4s60Vmcf4g82WaIFCMb-MQQi_IqK4i1s2ck/edit?usp=sharing

2017: Van Holten, Milltown, Adamsville afterschool

 

11.18 Bedm School (K-1):

Book/Song: One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pilgrims – B.G.Hennessy (point out what they are doing in the pictures – that the Wampanoag’s help enabled the Pilgrims to get the food they needed to survive – no Shoprite or Costco!)
Song/flannel: Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day (Kdg)

Book: Duck for Turkey Day – Jacqueline Jules
Discussion: who came from a different country? parents? grandparents? – all of us came to this country at some time unless we are Native Americans)
Song/Glove: "Uno Dos Tres Amigos" (sang in other languages students knew)

Book: Over the River and Through the Wood – Lydia Maria Child/Westcott illustrations
Song/food pieces, Old Lady I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

Book: Setting the Turkeys Free by W. Nikola Lisa
Flannel/Song (Kdg) “The Turkey Ran Away”

Storytelling: Towel Folding Turkey Story (directions above)
Action song: Turkey Trot (Hokey Pokey)

Book: How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting (1st Grade)
Book: The Perfect Thanksgiving by Eileen Spinelli (Kdg);

Song: The Turkey Shot out of the Oven – based on the poem by Jack Prelutsky (above)

Additional possibilities – didn’t arrive in time this year: Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' by Eileen Spinelli or This is the Feast by Diane Shore or This is Me: A Story of Who We Are & Where We Came From – Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell (many families came to America with only the clothes on their backs and perhaps a small suitcase. If they were coming, what would they bring? what would they have to leave behind?)