Autumn!

October 14, 2014

Autumn!

A storytime devoted to book about autumn and fall and leaves and acorns and all that stuff!

Books:

The Bear Who Shared by Catherine Rayner
Mouse's First Fall by Lauren Thompson
The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri

Songs:


Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? – Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol 1

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

Song 4: Shake My Sillies Out – Raffi – More Singable Songs for Kids

Song 5: Let Everyone Clap Like Me – Wee Sing in the Car

Song 6: Happy and You Know It – Kimbo

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

Felt/Magnet Board:

 This week we did Five Autumn Leaves from Miss Tara and Friends. It's a cute little rhyme and the kids enjoyed counting along with me and making the woooshing wind noises.

Five Autumn Leaves

Five autumn leaves hanging from a tree (five fingers)

I wonder if they'll fall for me (shrug)

The wind comes blowing wooooosh round and round (big arm movements)

And one little leaf comes fluttering down (flutter fingers down to ground)

We let the kids sit down during the magnet board (no standing!)  and we made a bigger deal of the woooshing wind than in the rhyme.


For the magnet board itself I found black and white clipart of leaves and a tree and colored them with washable marker. I then thought it would be a neat technique to dribble water on the leaves so that they looked a little more natural - some worked better than others :-) .

Craft:

This week we made a Plaid Autumn Fox from the lovely people at Oriental Trading. Unfortunately, the fox is no longer available, so I'm definitely glad we got him when we did.