Friday, December 4, 2020

Donuts--Virtual Storytime

Alphabet Welcome

What did Henrietta Bring?

1.  This is something you can eat
2.  It's shaped like a circle
3.  It is very sweet
4.  It has a hole in the middle!

A donut!

Song

Draw a Circle

Draw a circle round and round
Round and round
Round and round
Draw a circle round and round
Draw a circle!

Up up high, way down low
Fast , fast, fast
Slow, slow, slow

Magnet Board Story

Share the Donuts!

Bear just finished cooking a dozen—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12--delicious donuts!  Then he heard a knock at the door.  His friend Penguin came to visit.  Bear divide the donuts in half—6 for him and 6 for Penguin.  

Just then another knock.  Hello, Pig!  With three of them Bear divide the donuts into thirds—everyone getting 4 each!  Bear was just about to take a bite when knock, knock! Knock, knock! The Raccoon twins arrived.  Now there are 6 of them!  So they each get 1, 2 donuts a piece!

Knock, knock, knock!!  What’s this?! The team of six just won their game!  Let’s celebrate!  Now there are 12 of us!  One donut each!  And that’s just right!


Parent Tip

Children need to know more than just how to count.  Understanding what number words represent—the “how many”—is an important step in developing number sense and other math skills.  Take time to explore how you can rearrange objects into different groups, but always keep the same number, such as 12 donuts or with five toys or blocks make a group of 1 and 4 or 2 and 3.  There’s always five blocks, just rearranged differently.  Playing with numbers now will help your child build a foundation for math learning in the future.

Book

Dozens of Doughnuts
written by Carrie Finison; illustrated by Brianne Farley
Read with permission from the publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House

Animal Goodbyes

**I got flustered during storytime--the song was supposed to go between the magnet story and the book.  Oh, well!

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