Family

November 19, 2013

Family

A storytime devoted to the people you probably will be spending your Thanksgiving feast with: Family!

Books:

Little Pea by Amy Rosenthal

The Grandpa Book by Todd Parr

Spoon by Amy Rosenthal

We only did three books today because we had 2 (count em! 2!!!) felt/magnet board stories that we wanted to share today.

Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

Song 3 (Theme Song Pick): Five Fat Turkeys - Kimbo

Song 4: Dance Your Fingers / Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby

Song 5: (Our Theme Song Pick): She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain - Kimbo

Song 6: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Song 7: (Our Theme Song Pick):  Peanut Butter and Jelly - Kimbo

Song 8: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

To tie in the "She'll be Comin' around the Mountain" we said beforehand that "Grandma" was comin' around the mountain for Thanksgiving dinner and, perhaps, the kids' grandmas too would be coming around for Thanksgiving dinner.
Also, we closed with the last three songs one after another - the kids were getting restless and nothing keeps their attention better than singing and moving with the songs.

Felt Board / Magnet Board:

We found this last year and decided to use it again - it was one of the first magnet boards we used in our storyimes. I found the rhyme at DTLK Holidays. The magnet board was made using basic clipart found in Microsoft Publish, which is a little bit easier to use when dealing with pictures than Microsoft Office. All of the parents gave a little chuckle at the last line:

Five Little Turkeys

Five little turkeys standing at the door,
One waddled off, and then there were four.

   

Four little turkeys sitting near a tree,
One waddled off, and then there were three.

 

Three little turkeys with nothing to do,
One waddled off, and then there were two.

 

Two little turkeys in the morning sun,
One waddled off, and then there was one.

 

One little turkey better run away,
For soon it will be Thanksgiving Day.

Stone Soup!
We did the traditional story of stone soup with a few additions and alterations. The story has a dog searching and searching for his lost boy when he gets hungry and thirsty. He asks a lady if she would share some food with him and she says "No!" The rest is the traditional story of the dog finding a stone and wanting to make some delicious Stone Soup with it. The lady when lends him a pot, carrot, potatoes, and a tomato to make the Stone Soup that much more tasty. Finally, the lady tastes the soup and decides some bread and butter and milk would go perfectly with the meal. We also made the addition of "And then they shared the stone soup for their Thanksgiving meal!"

Craft:

To go with our Stone Soup felt board, we did a Stone Soup Craft with some yummy vegetable the kids might see on their Thanksgiving plates next week. This was a craft found in some hand-me-down files so the origin is not known and we definitely didn't invent it ourselves - perhaps it came from an old SRP manual. A very cute equivalent can be found at DTLK under their felt board fables.

How Many Did you Have?

Today's total was 64!! Lots of new faces and lots of extended family probably because its so close to Thanksgiving!

How Did it Go?

Overall it was very smooth. The kids were well behaved right to the end and when they weren't we had lots of songs to grab their attention again.