Animal Mommies

May 27, 2014

Animal Mommies

A storytime devoted to mommies of the animal variety!

Books:

Hush, Little Dragon by Boni Ashburn
     No, it's not a traditional "animal mommy" story, but...work with me here. It's a new version of "Hush, Little Baby" but with a dragon trying to find food for her baby as the theme.

Babies in the Bayou by Jim Arnosky
     A highlighting of all the babies you find in the bayou:alligators, racoons, turtles, and ducks!

Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward
   How many animals make nests? This book goes over a bunch of nest-making animals from all over.

Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

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

Song 3: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Song 4: Peanut Butter and Jelly - Kimbo

Song 5: Dance Your Fingers/Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby

Song 6: Put Your Little Foot - Wee Song Fun N' Folk

Song 7: If You're Happy and You Know It - Kimbo

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

Felt/Magnet Board:

This week we did two magnet boards! We started with Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? We were able to easily print the graphics for this magnet board from the wonderful folks at DLTK Teach.That took care of our "Animal" aspect (again, work with me here!).

Out second board we made ourselves using simple clipart from Microsoft Word - 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. This took care of our "Mommy" aspect...since mama calls the doctor...and she's a mama of monkeys afterall (still...work with me!).

 Craft:

To go with our 5 Little Monkeys magnet board we made a Monkey Mask! Found at FirstPalette.com,
a website filled with tons of simple printable crafts! We printed ours onto different colors of cardstock paper and the kids LOVED looking like monkeys. We then had them tape or glue a large popsicle stick (tongue depressor size) to make the monkey face into a mask.

Mother's Day!

May 6, 2014

Mother's Day!

A storytime devoted to mommies on their special day!

Books: 

Clifford's Happy Mother's Day by Norman Bridwell
The Night Before Mother's Day by Natasha Wing

We had a trainee with us today so we only ran through two books. The kids were getting a bit restless so we sang and sang and sang!

Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

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

Song 3: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

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

Song 5: If You're Happy and You Know It - Kimbo

Song 6: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs

Felt/Magnet Board:

Today we did a manget board version of MOMMY which is a Mother's Day version of BINGO! The idea for this came from Storytime ABC's

 

Yes, I did intend to color the flowers bright happy springy colors, but I completely forgot! Anyway - the song goes just like "Bingo" but with a twist:

I have a very special friend

And Mommy is her name-o

M-O-M-M-Y

And so on... Now in Bingo you substitute a CLAP for one letter at a time. On the other side of these flowers, I printed clipart of mommy faces:

 Until you get to...

I put magnet on both side of the paper, but it looks like only one set actually held up - the mommy faces did not stick to the magnet board. Now at this point, Storytime ABC's have a second little poem:

Five Pretty Mommies

Five pretty Mommies I one knew

Cute ones, busy ones, happy ones, too

But the one in the middle, pretty as can be 

(I've also seen - "that belongs to me")

I love her and she loves me!

Down to the grocery store we did go,

Wibble Wobble, Wibble Wobble, to and fro. 

But the one in the middle, as pretty as can be,

I love her and she loves me!

 I, on the other hand, forgot to go through the second rhyme but - oh well!


Craft:

Today, we did a simple Mother's Day card we found at Making Learning Fun. I was able to print it with the cover picture on the front and so that the inscription ("Happy Mother's Day! Love,______) came out on the inside.