Windy!
In keeping with our W's for the month of January, we did a WINDY storytime with books devoted to windy and stormy weather.
Books:
The Magic Hat by Mem Fox
One Winter's Day by M. Christina Butle
Kite Day: A Bear and Mole Story by Will Hillenbrand
Songs:
Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo
Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids
Song 3(Theme Song Pick): The Frost Song
Song 4: Shake your Sillies Out - Raffi
Song 5: Walking, Walking - Wee Sing for Baby
Song 6: Dance Your Fingers / Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby
Song 7: If You're Happy and You Know It - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids
Song 8: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids
We've settled into a fairly standard song list for this month, though that's mostly because of the rush of the morning before storytime. This storytime was the day after a holiday so we only had an hour or so to truly prepare our arrangement
Felt/Magnet Board:
This week we pulled off TWO magnet board presentations.
The rhyme goes:
One little kite in the sky so blue,
Along came another, then there were two.
Two little kites flying high above me;
Along came another, then there were three.
Three little kites, just watch them soar,
Along came another, then there were four.
Four little kites, so high and alive
Along came another, then there were five.
Five little kites dancing across the sky,
What a sight to see, way up so high!
Our second magnet board was the classic "Five Little Ducks Went Out To Play."
It goes like this:
Five little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away,
When mama duck said,
“Quack, quack, quack,”
Four Little ducks came running back.
Four little ducks…
Three little ducks…
Two little ducks…
One little duck…
No little ducks went out to play,
Over the hills and far away,
When mother duck said
“QUACK, QUACK, QUACK!”
Five little ducks came running back.
The kids LOVED yelling the QUACK QUACK QUACK - it was the perfect thing to bring their attention back to us at the end.
Craft:
A decorate it yourself FLAG!
We rifled through our storytime crafts closests and came across this leftover gem from the summer and what a perfect match it was! Flags fly in the wind afterall, don't they?
How Many Did You Have?
We had 46 total for this go 'round!
How Did It Go?
As you may have gathered, we've been losing the crowd around Book 3 recently, but the magnet board was a perfect thing to bring them back again!
