Monday, March 27 - Exclamation Mark!

Stories:

Exclamation Mark! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld

Kite Day by Will Hillenbrand

Songs: "Action Song for Kids" by Singing Walrus

Extend the story time:

Continue exploring sentence endings. As you read point out what is at the end of the sentence. A period? An exclamation mark, or a question mark? Count the marks in the books.  

Have your child make tally marks on paper as they count how many times they see an exclamation mark in a book you and your child are reading together.

Monday March 13th - Games part 2

Theme: Games part 2

Stories:













Song:
The Bowling Song by Raffi

Apps:
same as last week.



Extend story time ideas:
1. Go bowling at your local bowling alley.
2. Make your own bowling set. Click here for the craft idea from u-createcraft.com

Feb. 27 - G is for games

Theme: Games

Stories:
Ethan Long's Lion & Tiger & Bear: Tag You're It!

Song:
Freeze Dance by Kiddie Palooza

Apps:
Smartboard - use to create a masterpiece from a shape or squiggle.

Extended story time ideas:
Play tic-tac-toe using different letters besides "X" and "O".  Each player can choose to use their first initial as their identifying mark.

smartboard

magnetic alphabet

Monday, February 13 - Feelings part 2

Stories:

In My Heart - A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek

Songs:
"If your happy and you know it..."

Storytime extension:
Because You Daddy Loves You by Andrew Clements. A great Valentine's Day book! Discuss the many different feelings a child expresses as her father responds to different circumstances. Pause to ask how your child would feel in the given circumstance, how they would feel should the father respond with the words before the book reads: "...But he doesn't...".

Wild Feelings by David Milgrim. This book plays on metaphors like "clumsy as an ox", "stubborn as a mule" to poke fun and accept that we all have many feelings, and it is okay. Discuss the expression and what it says about our feelings.

Have a little animal lover? The ebook from Lillian Vernon by August Branchesi. Dusty D. Dwag Has Feelings Too is a feelings book taken from a dog's point of view.

Dusty D. Dwag Has Feeling Too

(free iOS)


Apps Used (standards):
Magnetic Alphabet
Smartboard
Lil Writer


New App:

First Words Feelings

Monday, January 23- Feelings part 1

Stories:

Angus the Irritable Bull (iOS for $.99, at time of this writing)

Song: If You're Happy and You Know It



Apps Used today:

Breathe

Magnetic Alphabet

Smartboard

January 9, 2017 - Mythical Monsters

Stories:

Format: iBook

Even Monsters Are Shy
Format: StoryApp (iTunes)
by: BusyBee Studios

Songs:
"The Letter Name Song" (ABC's)
"Monster Boogie" by Laurie Berkner

Extend Storytime:
Draw a monster on paper. Describe how it looks, what shape. Describe what it eats. Describe what it will do if it is shy. Describe what it will do if it is not shy.




Today's Apps:

Magnetic Alphabet

Smartboard

Tiggly Draw
Make a monster! Watch animated features!

December 12 - S is for Snow

Song:
Dance Like Snowflakes (sung to Are You Sleeping)
Dance like snowflakes
In the air
Whirling, twirling snowflakes
here and there...everywhere!


App Activity:
Using this website from your mobile device to create virtual snowflakes. Help a child see (in real time) how the cut outs he/she makes effects the form of the snowflake. Set setting to "auto update".


Extend Story Time:

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; illust. by Mary Azarian - Caldecott winner 1999. A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

Make a "real" paper snowflake with the help of this step by step guide. Have them watch you fold and cut the paper to prepare the triangle shape for them to cut. Then have them make cuts out of the paper. For the older siblings joining in: Talk about how the paper is like the digital version and how it is different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlQVkZA5j-A - show them this slow motion video of how a snowflake forms. Talk about the shape having 6 points.

Talk about SNOW, the letter S and other words that start with "S"....like "six".
Include science fact about snowflakes--made from water which is stuck and frozen to falling debris from the sky...: http://www.doublexscience.org/why-are-snowflakes-always-six-sided/

Have your child cut out and color lollipop covers using this template. Choose Elf, Santa, Snowman, Reindeer. Each template comes with a colored version and a black and white version. Choose the black and white version and have your child color them and write season's greetings to friends.

Create your own virtual snowflake with this website!
from your mobile or computer .