Pre-School Storytime: Spring has Sprung!

Pre-School Storytime: Spring has Sprung!
A storytime for ages 2-6 celebrating the season, with a nod to seasonal changes, growth cycles, rain and ducks plus a dollop of imagination!  Incorporates music and sign language, world languages, numeracy, non-fiction, poetry, and demonstrates sharing a wordless book.

 

Opening Music: McCutcheon’s “Family Garden” from same album.

“We’ll begin with an imaginary walk outside…but we’ll walk with our hands!”

 

Sign Language Song: “Let’s Take a Walk Outside” Track 15 from Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs  alternative: “If you look you’ll see spring all around”  (tune: If You’re Happy & You Know It)

If you look you’ll see spring all around

See the flowers coming out of the ground

See the blossoms on the trees

Hear the buzzing of the bees

If you look you’ll see spring all around

 

Book (Action elements):  Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson (this interactive book goes through a tree’s seasonal changes, similar to Press Here by Herve Tullet)

 

Flannel/Song: “And the Green Grass Grew All Around” (cumulative narration literacy skill) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Green_Grass_Grew_All_Around

 

“Speaking of eggs…April is National Poetry Month so here’s a poem that will give you a whole new look at your breakfast!”

Poem:   “Spring Is” by Bobby Katz from the poetry collection Sunflakes by Lillian Moore  

“What hatches from eggs?...”
Non-Fiction Book:  Lucky Ducklings: A True Rescue Story by Eva Moore (similar to Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey)

 

Puppet/Glove/Numeral Cards: “Five Little Ducks Went Out to Play” http://www.storytimesongs.com/Lyrics/fivelittleducks.html  (I always end this song by having mother duck quack VERY loudly  after no ducks have come back…and saying that sometimes parents have to shout a bit to get their kids to listen to them!   Can mention Tom Chapin’s funny song about this “In the Nick of Time” from his album Family Tree.)

 

 

“Ducks like water…but look what happens on this rainy day!”
Wordless Book:  Chalk by Bill Thomson

 

"You probably know about a spider on a rainy day..."
Singable Book: The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani

 

“What if sunshine was magic too?..."

Poem: “Sunflakes” by Frank Asch (of Moonbear fame) from the poetry collection Sunflakes by Lillian Moore.

Song: “Springtime Is Here” (multiple languages) original source unknown—contact me for tune

Springtime is here!  (2x)
Birds are singing (2x)
Springtime is here! (2x)

(Spanish)   ¡Primavera aqui!  (2x)  Pajaritos cantan   (2x)   ¡Primavera aqui!  (2x)    
(German)  Frühling ist da! (2x)   Die Vögelein singen (2x)    Frühling ist da!     (2x)   
(Japanese)   Haru ga kita! (2x)   Kotori ga naiteru  (2x)    Haru ga kita   (2x)   
(Zulu)  Entwasahlobo! (2x) Inyoni ukucula  (2x)   Entwasahlobo  (2x)   

Sign Language:  http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/s/spring.htm     http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/h/here.htm      http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/b/bird.htm
 http://www.signingsavvy.com/sign/SING/766/1 

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4/2013:                    

Opening Music: McCutcheon’s “Family Garden” from same album 730 MCCU 

Book: Wake Up, It’s Spring – Ernst (am) Rabbit’s Good News – Bornstein (pm)

Song: Springtime Is Here (multiple languages) original source unknown

Book: Old Bear – Henkes

Sign Language Song:  “Let’s Take a Little Walk” Track 15 from “Pick Me Up!”

Poem: “Spring Is” – from Sunflakes (promoting Thursday’s “Poem in Your Pocket Day”)

Book: and then it’s spring – Fogliano

Flannel/song: “Green Grass Grew all Around” (cumulative narration literacy skill)

Book: Little White Rabbit – Henkes

Book/song: Over in the Meadow – Over (Wkrm) numeracy (omitted 2013 no time)

Glove: 5 little freckled frogs (omitted 2013 no time)

Song: If you look you’ll see spring all around. (lyrics above)

Video:  A Boy A Dog & A Frog (on Mercer Mayer Frog Stories – WGL PPR)

Read:  A Good Day – Henkes  (reassuring day after Boston bombing)

Hand-Stamping to Tom Chapin’s “This Pretty Planet” (730 CHAP)

 

Additional flannels:
Fran’s Flower by Lisa Bruce
Titch by Pat Hutchins
Spring Flowers
Spring is Here (What the Robin Told)

Earth Day: Invention Convention!

Earth Day - Invention Convention!   (For ages 5 - 11)   REDUCE**REUSE**RECYCLE!

Join us as we celebrate Earth Day by making new things out of old materials....our only limit is our imagination (and the materials we have on hand)! Please bring in (clean) cardboard food boxes, bottle caps, yogurt containers, paper towel rolls, old cds, egg cartons -- and anything else you can think of to share with the group as our building materials -- then we'll see what we create!

• As kids arrive, have them browse invention books (Dewey 608-609’s, assorted inventor biographies, plus titles below)
• Showed book segment from: Reading Rainbow: Galimoto
• Shared: pages from Imaginative Inventions (609 HAR), So You Want to Be an Inventor (608 St. George), If I Built a Car (Van Dusen), Weslandia (Fleischman) (left-out kid invents a whole civilization from a stray plant that grows in his garden one summer)
• Briefly booktalked:   Dotty Inventions (& Some Real Ones Too) (609 MCG),    Horray for Inventors (609.22 WIL),  Now and Ben: The modern inventions of Ben Franklin, Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci, Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed our Lives (all 609.2 BAR), Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women (609.2273 THI), inventors biographies e.g. The Real McCoy and All Aboard: Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine (JBiog MCCOY), JBiog Edison, Marvelous Mattie and In the Bag (JBiog Knight) Mistakes that Worked (609 JON), The Kid who Invented the Trampoline (609 WUL), Galimoto (Williams), Hoover’s Bride (Small), Ruby May Has Something to Say (Small), If I Built a House (Van Dusen), Going Up: Elijah Otis' Trip to the Top (JBiog Otis), It's a Snap: George Eastman's First Photograph (JBiog Eastman), Spic-and-Span: Lillian Gilbreth's Wonder Kitchen (JBiog Gilbreth)

• Defined the word "prototype" -- mentioned they can make either real or imaginary inventions. 
• Recycled materials inventions --Materials: egg cartons, bottle caps, shoe boxes, oatmeal cartons, etc. plus tape, scissors, pipe cleaners, markers, paper, pencils, etc. 
• Music playing while constructing: Deep in the Jungle by Joe Scruggs (started with song "I Gave Mom a Skateboard for her Birthday.")

4.2014

Consider: Reading Rainbow: Alistair's Time Machine (DVD: How is it Made?) -- includes amusing inventions that never quite made it.

Additional Book possibilities:
The Most Magnificent Thing -- Ashley Spires (2014) -- humorous title shows value of not giving up

http://thechocolatemuffintree.blogspot.com/2013/04/23-recycled-projectsfor-earth-day.html

 

Picture This: ALPHABATICS: The Art of the Alphabet

Grades K-6: 

Come see how picture book illustrators have transformed ordinary ABC’s (and D’s & Z’s!) 

into wonderful shapes and magical creatures, then we’ll do the same.  

Join us for a romp through some amazingly original alphabet books -- then turn ordinary ABC's into some fantastic creations of your own!  To get an idea what it is all about, 

click to see Bembo’s amazingly clever alphabet Zoo.

• As children arrive, have them browse a display of alphabet books (including those below)
• Open with Z is for Moose (Bingham) – thinking about the alphabet differently!
• Depending on the age of the group, can share Alphabetical Order: How the Alphabet Began (411 Sam) – show specific pages: from drawings to letters, the first alphabets, the worlds alphabets, other alphabets, artists and alphabets (optional: could also relate to concrete poetry e.g. A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems (811.008 POK), Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building (Hale), Meow Ruff (Sidman), A Dazzling Display of Dogs (811.54 FRA))
• Looking at letters imaginatively --  share some of these: The Graphic Alphabet (Pelletier), The Turn Around Upside Down Alphabet Book (Ernst), Alphabatics (McDonald), Alphabet Under Construction (Fleming), Gone Wild (591.68 MCL),  Take Away the A (Escoffier), ABC3D: Pop Up (Bataille) -- show How to Make Super Pop-Ups (745.592 Irvine) and other pop-up design books.
• Booktalk: On Beyond Zebra (Dr. Seuss) – if care to make up a new letter!, The Butterfly Book (598.789 SAN) – alphabets in nature, ABC NYC (Dugan) – seeing letters in the city, Alphab’art (Guery) – hidden letters in paintings, I Spy: An Alphabet in Art (Micklethwait), If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet  (McGuirk),  Handmade Alphabet (Rankin),
• Watch Bembo’s Zoo (on Youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPY-FZT9ME8
• Craft: “Creative Alphabatics” (children select a letter and play with the design inspired by the books they've seen).  Materials: paper, markers, pencils, rulers, scissors, construction paper scraps, glue, google eyes, any other materials you care to give them (feathers, wallpaper scraps, etc.)

http://www.tutorial9.net/downloads/not-your-usual-characters-30-amazing-alphabet-recreations/ -- more great alphabet ideas 

Bibliographies:

http://childrensbooksguide.com/alphabet

http://bookforthatkids.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-to-z-books-for-back-to-school.html

4.2014

Pre-School Storytime: Cats & Kittens

Cats & Kittens (Ages 3-6) 

This storytime incorporates current and classic stories, nursery rhymes, 

sign language, letter, number, and color identification, 

music and movement (including yoga)  and a bilingual story.

(Note, this is a long program, may need to pick and choose or if in a child-care setting, 

use the elements over the course of a week.)

Sign Language Song: “Hear the Little Doggie” – song from Pick Me Up, Fun Songs for Learning Signs

Flannel: Hey Diddle Diddle (classic nursery rhyme)

Book (4’s &5’s): It’s a Secret by John Burningham (wonderful fantasy that answers why your cat might sleep all day!)

Book (3’s & 4’s) Kitten Tale by Eric Rohmann (if not used for winter storytime) or Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (if not used for moon storytime) (booktalked this to the older groups)

Flannel Song: “I Know a Cat” (K-I-T-T-Y)– letter identification, listening skills, rhythm practice

 (tune:  "B-I-N-G-O")
I know a cat with perky ears
And Kitty is her name-o.
K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y, K-I-T-T-Y,
And Kitty is her name-o.

(Repeat, dropping one letter from K-I-T-T-Y and replacing that letter with a clap with each verse.  Ultimately, five claps will replace the five letters.)

Action Song: Paws, Whiskers, Ears and Tails  (tune:  "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes")

Paws,                      (curl hands in front)   Whiskers,     (make whiskers on sides of face, = sign language for cat)

Ears                        (touch ears)          and Tails,              (touch tail)

Ears                        (touch ears)          and Tails,              (touch tail)

We’ll lick our fur (pretend to lick) and nap right here (hands together by side of head to pretend to sleep)

Paws, whiskers, ears and tails, ears and tails.                 (repeat actions as before)

Book: How to Be a Cat – Nikki McClure (beautiful woodcuts, simple text  -- kids can read out letters – and  read some words, acted out the actions -- unusual words àvocabulary development)

Book: Three Little Kittens (both Jerry Pinkney & Paul Galdone versions are lovely)  (classic nursery rhyme, vocabulary “soiled”)

Glove puppets/numeral cards: Five Little Kittens (subtraction, numeral identification, numeral orientation with older groups – I put numeral card sideways or upside and kids love to fix it!) 

Five Little Kittens (source unknown)

Five little kittens sleeping on a chair.

One rolled off -- Leaving four there.

Four little kittens -- One climbed a tree

To look in a bird's nest -- Then there were three.

Three little kittens wondered what to do.

One saw a mouse -- Then there were two.

Two little kittens  playing near a wall.

One little kitten left -- To chase a red ball.

One little kitten With fur soft as silk.

Left all alone -- To drink a dish of milk.

Book: (4’s & 5’s): Tiger in My Soup by Kashmira Sheth (great book emphasizing reading & imagination)

Action Book  (Yoga poses): You Are a Lion & Other Fun Yoga Poses by Taeeun Yoo (Alternative: Pretend You’re a Cat by Jean Marzollo

Bilingual Book : Miaow! by Alankrita Jain (read English text, asked if we had anyone who read Tamil (didn’t) but gave me a chance to promote our World Language Collection)

Singable Book: Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin

Beautiful books but no time: The Cinder-Eyed Cats by Eric Rohmann, Rumble Tum by Stephanie Peters

Video/DVD: Splat the Cat (Weston Woods)  (Alts: Hondo & Fabian, Three Legged-Cat, Cat and Canary, or Here Comes the Cat.  Didn’t use: Millions of Cats – music too loud, overpowers narration)

3/2014

National Poetry Month–Poetry Treasure Hunt

April is National Poetry Month…Celebrate with our Poetry Treasure Hunt!
(Poems are posted around the children’s room…find the poems, answer the questions, solve the puzzle and bring it to the Youth Services Reference Desk for a prize!)

We created a treasure hunt for our kids in order to generate some excitement about poetry in our library – and maybe generate some circulations of our wonderful poetry books!  In case anyone wants to do this at their library, I am sharing the materials we created.  Here’s a sample:

Click here for the complete set of materials.

School Age Program: “You’re a Poet Though You Might Not Know It!” Grade K-6 National Poetry Month Program

“Every day when I go out, I fill my shoes with sauerkraut....”
Come read and create some wild, wacky,
and wonderful poems with us!   
(If you have a favorite poem, bring it along!)  
Special guest: local writer Randi Clarken.

This was a program to encourage kids to play with poetry then write some of their own.  We had a local poet join us, but that portion could be omitted.

Poetry Program – You’re a Poet though You May Not Know It  “Today we’re going to write some poems of our own -- but first we’re going to hear some poems to get our own creative ideas flowing and get some tips about poetry-writing…”

Poetry Warm-up:

• Mary Had Some Bubble Gum http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poem.aspx?PoemID=604&CategoryID=28
• Complete the Newfangled Yankee Doodle Poems http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryfun/newfangledfib.html
• Poetry Theater:
  • “Ish!” http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetrytheaterdetail.aspx?TheaterID=17
  • “My Dog Has No Manners” http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetrytheaterdetail.aspx?TheaterID=6
  • "I Can't Write a Poem" Poem http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclassdetail.aspx?LessonPlanID=23

2011: Introduced a “Real Live Poet” Randi Clarken author of Mugging for the Camera (her poems indicated by RJC below)

Shared these tips from Jack Prelutsky Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry – anyone know of him (show his books) –keeps writing notebook (used page numbers below -- 2015 during spring break, kids a bit antsy so I only some of these))

1. Write about something that really happened (ok to exaggerate though!):
Ø p.5 “I Wonder Why Dad is so Thoroughly Mad”
Ø p.18 “My Mother’s Rules”
Ø another poem about his mom’s rules: p.23 “Deep in Our Refrigerator”
Ø RJC p. 17 “Under My Bed”

2. Brothers, Sisters, Pets, Friends and Toys make good subjects:
Ø p.30 “My Baby Brother” (also “Brother” p. 65 in Sunflakes selected by Lilian Moore)
Ø p.58 “Oh, Teddy Bear”
Ø p.64 “My Brother Shaved His Teddy Bear”
Ø RJC p. 32 “Rock Paper Scissors”

3. Poems don’t have to be long:
Ø p.33 “Oysters”
Ø (also “The Tickle Poem” p.14 in Sunflakes )
Ø RJC p. 115 “A Very Tiny Poem”
Ø RJC p. 123 “Little Willie Number 7”

4. But you may revisit a subject if you find you have more to say:
Ø P.35 “Do Oysters Sneeze”
Ø RJC p.27 “Closet Avoidance”

5. Images can inspire poems:
Ø p.43 “We’re Fearless Flying Hot Dogs”
Ø p.39 “Forty Performing Bananas” (re-writing playing with language – read section),
Ø p.53 “I’m Building a Bridge of Bananas”
Ø p.74 “The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven”
Ø RJC p. 69 “Were Rabbits”
Ø RJC p.72 “Speaking Of…How to Make a Dust Bunny Happy”

And poems can inspire images:
Ø Show Shape/Concrete Poems from Doodle Dandies by J. Patrick Lewis & A Poke in the Eye by Paul B. Janeczko

2011: RJC talked a little more about writing poems…
2015 added instead:
6. Surprise ending fun:
from Lunch Money and Other Poems About School by Carol Diggory Shields
p. 16 "School Daze Rap"
p. 35 "Clock Watching"

Hands on – Writing our Own Poems – Options:

o Using what we just discussed, write a poem
o If you need ideas, try: “I am” poem (handout below, more at: http://www.pinterest.com/teaching101/writing/)
o Poetry Starter (source unknown): “Every day when I go out, I fill my shoes with sauerkraut…. (supply a page with these two lines as the starter )
o Acrostic Poem (Handout below)
o How to Write an "I Can't Write a Poem" Poem (Handout http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/cantwrite.htm)
o Write a Structured Poem – ideas from the book “A Kick in the Head”

 
2017 added:

o Write a Shape Poem|

This and many more here: https://www.pinterest.com/ginger9892/concrete-poetry/
o Write a Blackout Poem

from: http://learningparade.typepad.co.uk/learning_parade/2011/07/newspaper-blackout-poems.html

Additional Resources:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/poetry/index.htm  Jack Prelutsky and others
www.hmhbooks.com/poetrykit/  lots of poetry ideas based on HMH books
http://www.gigglepoetry.com Bruce Lansky’s poems, contests, ideas
www.poetry4kids.com poems, contests, ideas + a rhyming dictionary
www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm place for kids to publish their own
www.teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_home.htm (jack prelutsky’s writer’s workshop)

Display books: Imagine a Day …Night… Place – Sarah Thomson & Rob Gonsalves,  A River of Words JB Williams, Sad Underwear Judith Viorst, lots of other poetry books…You might also share some other fun poetry collections -- I love Lunch Money by Carol Diggory Shields (lots of funny poems about school -- they love the surprise ending to "Clock-Watching") , Dinosaur Dinner by Dennis Lee (try having them make up new verses to "Alligator Pie" (Judy Freeman put it to music -- feel free to give me a call if you want the tune)), and the collection Sunflakes (try the poem "Brother" for some sibling laughs!) 

Handouts:

Acrostic Poem  (I wrote these instructions out for the kids)
An Acrostic Poem is a poem that uses a name or a word to begin each line in a poem. Write your name or a word vertically down the left side of this sheet of paper. Begin each line of the poem with each letter of your name and write about yourself. After you are finished, decorate the page with your favorite things. (If you would like to get your poem back, please write your name & phone number on the back.)



4.2011
4.2015 -- did without special guest poet, deleted RJC poems above, added 2015: notes.

4.2017: opened with Prelutsky’s “I Told the Wizard to His Face,” did “Yankee Doodle” rhyming game, talked about different kinds of poetry. Read some family exageration poems from Pizza, Pigs & Poetry, and “Brother” and “Spring Is” from Sunflakes, expanded upon “Alligator Pie”, shared some shape poems from Doodle Dandies and A Poke in the I and showed some examples of blackout poems.  Kids then created poems of their choice – shape poems, black out poems, rhyming poems or acrostic poems.

new in 2016 Daniel Finds a Poem – Micha Archer

Pre-School Storytime: Everything Green

 

 

Everything Green (Ages 3-6)

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and the beginning of spring with this storytime incorporating color identification, music and movement, participatory storytelling,

rhyming practice, and non-fiction elements.

(Note, this is a long program, need to pick and choose or if in a child-care setting,

use the elements over the course of a week.)

Opening Music: Hap Palmer's "Sally the Swinging Snake" (from album of the same name)

Book: Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni (2016) or  Green by Laura Seeger

Action Song:  “If your clothes have any green” (tune “If You’re Happy & You Know It”)
If your clothes have any green, any green (3x)….stand up  so you’ll be seen…

                                             red…tap your hands upon your head, 

         blue…touch your shoe,

         yellow …jump up & down like a happy fellow,

         grey..sway, black..clap, pink…blink, brown…sit down!

 

Book (non-fiction) : Green: Seeing Green All Around Us by Sarah L. Schuette (2016) – read main text and ask kids what it is – good for listening skills since the last 2 are tricky.

Action/Music:  dance with Hap Palmer's "Sally the Swinging Snake" (from album of the same name) and have the children "dance" swinging pieces of green yarn to the musical instructions (listening skills)

 

Book: Little Green by Keith Baker (2016 a.m. only  - might save for Spring next year)  or Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes

 

(omitted this 2016 – saved for spring storytime)

Song Flannel: “And the Green Grass Grew All Around” (echo song: children repeat each line) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Green_Grass_Grew_All_Around

 

Book: Green Wilma by Tedd Arnold (2016) or  Moonbear’s Pet by Frank Asch (arrived too late 2016, sweet story of tadpole growth and friendship) or Scoot by Cathryn Falwell (6 turtles, beautiful torn paper illus) or Ribbit! – Bender (flip book –no longer in system, Folgiera, lovely but long) or Frog Song -- Brenda Z. Guiberson 597.89 GUI - non-fiction)

 

Song/Puppets/numeral cards: “5 Little Freckled Frogs” (sat on a speckled log)
http://www.nurseryrhymes.org/five-little-speckled-frogs.html

Book: Wide Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner (pop-up)

Interactive Song/Flannel or Puppets:  “Deep in the Jungle” from Joe Scrugg’s album by the same name. (clever variation on the 3 little monkeys teasing the crocodile rhyme, I have child volunteers handle the monkey puppets/flannels, I handle the croc.) http://www.hellojoe.com/lyrics-ditj.html 

 

City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems (beautiful story of friendship & loss, seasons of the year)

 

Song: “Make New Friends But Keep the Old”

 

Video: A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog (live action film by Weston Woods based on the book by Mercer Mayer)

 

Hand-stamping Music:  “Deep in the Jungle” from Joe Scrugg’s album by the same name.

 

Not used:

Video: There’s an Alligator Under My Bed – Mayer

   Alts: Green Eggs & Ham or “Deep in the Jungle” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0t7RUnF41g

 

Silly Song: Alligator Pie  http://barney.wikia.com/wiki/Alligator_Pie (only with older groups, sometimes make up additional verses e.g. “alligator cheese…I think I’m going to sneeze”)
Puppet/Action/Song: “I’m Being Swallowed by a Big Alligator” before goodbye song

Hand-stamping Music:  “Deep in the Jungle” from Joe Scrugg’s album by the same name.

 

Youtube “Yertle the Turtle” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqjEsttx-IU

Optional (2014 saving for "eggs" storytime later this session):

Interactive storytelling: Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs & Ham I hand out picture/word cards to the kids for all the places the green eggs & ham are refused (here, there, house, mouse, box, fox, car, tree, train, dark (or use flashlight), rain (or use umbrella), goat, boat) and have extra laminated green eggs & ham pieces so everyone in the room can have a part. If you have another adult you can use laminated neck cards with pictures of Sam-I-Am and the friend (picky eater) --  Script here:  http://files.havefunteaching.com/fun-activities/readers-theater/green-eggs-and-ham.pdf or you can read the book aloud and have kids hold up the cards as the words are read.  The kids holding green eggs & hams are the enthusiastic chorus waving them about… and everyone chimes in on “I will not eat them anywhere!”

 

Take home rhyming practice activity –from http://www.obseussed.com/2012/03/green-eggs-and-ham-activities-and-free.html

 

Additional Material:

Songs:            There’s a Little White Duck (flannel)

Gary Rosen's  "Kelly the Caterpillar

Books:  One, Two, Three Jump – Lively

Spring Green – Selkote

Picasso the green tree frog

I'm green and I'm grumpy
Five green and speckled frogs by Priscilla Burris

Grandpa Green – Lane Smith
Green Queen – colors, ok for young groups
Finn McCool & the Great Fish 398.209415 Bunting (great Irish folktale beaut illus)

 

3/2017: Storytime/Craft:

 

 

Book: City Dog, Country Dog – Mo Willems (dialogic reading, act out actions, anticipate seasons, text to text frog on head in river and gingerbread man)

Sing: “Make New Friends but Keep the Old” (made a circle and circled round, then fell down at the end!")

Book: Green – Sarah Schuette (guessing game book)

Flannel/Song: “And the Green Grass Grew All Around” (echo and response)

 

Green Wilma – Tedd Arnold (asked if they thought it was a girl dreaming she was a frog or a frog dreaming she was a girl!)

Glove w/ Frogs: “5 Little Freckled Frogs”  (number cards)

Puppets/Song: “Deep in the Jungle” (child volunteers)

Action/Music:  dance with Hap Palmer's "Sally the Swinging Snake" (from album of the same name) and have the children "dance" swinging pieces of green yarn to the musical instructions (listening skills)

DVD: Mercer Mayer’s wordless live action “A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog”

 

Craft – talked about all the different colors of green we see around us. We had snow last week but some spring green returning – make spring green pictures – B&T cardboards, scrap colored papers of various tones of green, glue sticks, scissors, markers, tissue paper squares of various colors for squishing into flowers…