Fizz Boom Read: Opposites!

June 17, 2014

Fizz Boom Read: Opposites!

A storytime devoted to things that are opposite, alike, or just plain different!

Books:

Oppsnakes by Salina Yoon

Eric Carle's Opposites by Eric Carle

Ten Dirty Pigs, Ten Clean Pigs by Carol Roth

Silly Sally by Audrey Wood

Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

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

Song 3: Dance Your Fingers/Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby

Song 4: Let Everyone Clap Like Me - Wee Sing in the Car

Song 5: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Song 6: If You're Happy And You Know It - Kimbo

Song 7: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

Felt/Magnet Board:

This week we did two magnet boards - one in the middle of storytime and one at the end. We're finding that this helps keep the kids on track and brings their focus back to the stories.

To fit in with our Opposites theme we first did 5 Pigs So Squeaky Clean:

5 pigs so squeaky clean,

Cleanest pigs you’ve ever seen,

Wanted to go outside and play

1 jumped into the mud,

landed with a great big THUD!

now there are 4 pigs squeaky clean...

And so on until you have no more clean pigs!

I loved Miss Mary's idea of having one side of the pigs clean and one side dirty so I decided to use that in my magnet board. I used a basic, cutesy pig clipart picture and added splotches of brown mud in Microsoft Publisher, but you could easily drawn muddy splotches on your pigs pictures.

I then printed out a set of clean pigs and a set of dirty pigs, cut them out, and attached a magnet to each side - THEN I glued them back to back. You end up having a magnet facing each way on the inside so either way they will stick!

At the end of our storytime, we did a Tortoise and the Hare magnet board.

It's our telling of the classic story. Once upon a time there was a Tortoise and a Hare. The Hare was the fastest animal in the forest and would tease the slow Tortoise. So they decided to have a race to see who who really was the faster animal!

The Hare took off like lightening while the Tortoise lumbered on - slow and steady. The Hare soon became very tired from running so fast for so long. He figured he was far enough ahead of the Tortoise that he could take a nap and still win. So, the Hare lied down and took a nap under a tree.

Meanwhile, the Tortoise lumbered on, slow and steady, until he reached the finish line! The Hare had slept straight through the race! And the Moral is: Slow and Steady Wins the Race!