Warm and Toasty!

January 14, 2013

Warm and Toasty!

A storytime devote to things that warm you up on a cold wintry day!

Books:

Knitty Kitty by David Elliott

Snow Dog, Go Dog by Deborah Heiligman

Soup Day by Melissa Iwai


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

Felt/Magnet Board:

This week we chose to go a magnet board, and more than paraphrased. version of Jan Brett's The Mitten.

 

This Ukrainian folktale is humorous and adorable. Jan Brett is even kind enough to have a PDF of her animals and mittens on her website so that you can have this as a classroom activity or use to make your own telling of the story.

For our magnet board, we simply printed out pictures of the various animals and used Jan Brett's mitten outline to squeeze all the animals inside.

Craft:

The craft today was one of the easiest possible - a printable snowman to dress up! You can download the original here for FREE! The kids colored (or scribbled all over, depending on the age) the snowman and his clothing and parents helped cut the pieces and assemble them onto construction paper with glue. Super cute and super easy!

How Many Did You Have?

Today we had 49 all together - wowzers!

How Did It Go?

Overall, I'd call it a success. Honestly - the boys in our group were not particularly interested in Knitty Kitty but you can't win them all :-)