Fruits and Berries!

Books

That Fruit is Mine!

by Anuska Allepuz

The Watermelon Seed

by Greg Pizzou

Song

  

Pop! Goes the Berry!

(Jbrary) Tune: Pop goes the weasel

All around the strawberry fields

We picked some juicy berries

We brought them home and washed them off

POP! Go the berries!

Additional verses with different kinds of berries: blueberries, blackberries, huckleberries

Play and Learn

Watermelon Fingerprint craft—scissors, black ink, glue sticks, baby wipes

Giant sandwich

Strawberry game

Food bag and snack bag

Houses--Toddler

Books

The Napping House

by Audrey Wood; illustrated by Don Wood

Grandma's House

by Alice Melvin

(we looked at everything in Grandma's house--but where's Grandma?)

Vincent Paints His House

by Tedd Arnold

Magnet Activity

Iggy Iguana come out and play
What color house are you in today?

Fingerplays

A House for Me

A hill is a house for an ant, an ant.
A hive is a house for a bee.
A hole is a house for a mole or a mouse
And a house is house for me!

A web is a house for a spider.
A bird builds a nest in a tree.
There is nothing so snug as a bug in a rug
And a house is a house for me!

Here is a House

Here is a house built up high
with two big chimneys reaching for the sky
Here is window and here is a door
If we look inside...there's a mouse on the floor!

Rhyming Time

I started off planning this storytime then it evolved into Tongue Twisters.  I decided we could do a Rhyming theme also!

Books

Monkey and Duck Quack Up!

by Jennifer Hamburg; illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham

Rhyming Dust Bunnies

by Jan Thomas

Graph Question
A big fat cat sat on a mat and saw a _________

ball and bat, rat, hat, bat (animal)

Magnet Board

Five LIttle Owls

Five little owls learning to say, "who"
They flap their wings and then say ____________.
Mama Owl cried, "No no, not ____________!
"Please, oh, please say 'who-who-who'!"

show, zoo, glue, blue, two

Bears and Chairs--Toddlers

Books

Bears on Chairs

by Shirley Parenteau; illustrated by David Walker

There's a Bear on My Chair

by Ross Collins

Meeow and the Little Chairs

by Sebastien Braun

Rhymes and Songs

Teddy Wore a Red Shirt
Teddy wore a red shirt, a red shirt, a red shirt
Teddy wore a red shirt all day long.

Blue pants
Yellow hat
Green socks
White shoes

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear turn around
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear touch the ground

Dance on your toes
Touch your nose

Reach up high
Touch the sky

Bend down low
Touch your toe

Jump up now
Take a bow

Stomp your feet
Take your seat.

Play and Learn

Sheets, blankets, clothespins, chairs, tables

Blocks

Tongue Twister Storytime

Books

Nanette's Baguette

by Mo Willems

There's a Hole in a Log on the Bottom of the Lake

by Loren Long

Graph Question

Which would you like to do?
Pick a pile of purple pickles (2)
Choose two new blue shoes (2)
Cook and cool cupcakes quickly (12)
Watch a rich witch (8)

Songs/Rhymes

Henrietta's hammer hammers hard.

Silly Dance Contest

Play and Learn

Playdough (all yellow)
Beads on a pipe cleaner
Blocks
Mr. Potato Head

Grace Lin

On Thursday, August 8 we hosted the awesome author/illustrator Grace Lin for our Family Summer Reading Event!  Her presentation was awesome and my daughter was so excited to get her favorite book (Dumpling Days) signed by the author!

On the day of the event Grace was going to read aloud to our kids at Camp Read-A-Rama before lunch, however, her plane was delayed.  So I got the opportunity to read aloud from Grace Lin's books!  I have read all of her books so it was hard to choose but I finally decided to read a few of her Chinese Folklore stories.  Here is what I choose:

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

The Story of the Old Man of the Moon

The Story of the Paper of Happiness

Starry River of the Sky

The Story of the Old Sage

When the Sea Turned to Silver

The Story of the Ginseng Boy

Cats--Preschool Storytime

Books

I am a Cat

by Galia Bernstein

Black Cat, White Cat

by Silvia Borando

Flannel

Six little kittens found a box of paint.
They jumped right in...their mother will faint!
The first little kitten came out all red.
"I'll be orange," the second kitten said.
The third little kitten turned bright yellow
"I'll be green", said the next little fellow.
The fifth kitten said, "My favorite color is blue"
"Purple for me," said the sixth with a mew
Danding home the kittens go
To show their mother a KITTEN RAINBOW!

Songs

Kitty Cat
(tune: I'm a little teapot)
I'm a little kitty cat nice and sweet
Here are my whiskers and her are my feet
When I go out hunting mice beware!
Or you might just get a...SCARE!

Five Little Kittens
5 little kittens standing in a row
They nod their heads to the children so.
They turn to the left, they turn to the right
They stand up and stretch in the bright sunlight.
Along comes a dog, who's ready for some fun...
Me-ooow! See the kittens run!

Play and Learn
Stuffed animal cats and dogs and vet set