Trains Storytime
Books:
Books: Freight Train by Donald Crews
Seymour Simon’s Book of Trains
I love Trains! by Philemon Sturges
Trains Storytime
Books:
Books: Freight Train by Donald Crews
Seymour Simon’s Book of Trains
I love Trains! by Philemon Sturges
The Mitten: Week 4
Books:
In the Snow by Sharon Phillips Denslow
Clifford’s First Snow Day by Norman Bridwell
The Mitten by Jan Brett (to hold up)
This is our final week for the telling of the tale, “The Mitten”! I think that having one consistent story for a whole month helps the Storytime kids gain knowledge and experience with stories through review, and it also shows the parents how a simple story can be retold and enjoyed in different ways. It is also a way for the kids to be more active in the telling of the story, and I can layer in actions and repeat-after-me-phrases that I could not do if I was sharing new stories all the time. I also like to bring some theater in the form of play for the final week in the telling of the story, and this week we used masks that Jan Brett made available on her website for our props that each child was able to hold for our final telling of the story! Thank you Lynette, one of university interns, who made printed, laminated, and cut the masks out for us! We did not glue sticks on the back of the masks. I think sticks can make homemade masks harder for little hands to hold.
3rd week of January Storytime
The Mitten: Week 3
Books:
The Mitten by Jim Aylesworth
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Mouse’s First Snow by Lauren Thompson
Cleo in the Snow by Stella Blackstone