Silly Stories!
Today's theme was Silly Stories - stories that are just plain silly and make us laugh. We sometimes like to get away from a specific theme and leave ourselves open to do, basically, any books that tickle our fancy.
Books:
Open this Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier
The Boy on the Bus by Penny Dale
The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli
Songs:
Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo
Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids
Song 3 (Our Theme Song Pick): Jack in the Box - Wee Sing and Pretend:
To the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel:
My name is Jack-in-the-Box
I love to hide from you.
I quietly stay inside the box.
'Til POP! I surprise you!
Down I go back into my box
to hide again from you.
I quietly stay inside the box.
'Til POP! I surprise you!
Song 4: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi
Song 5: Dance Your Fingers / Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby
Song 6: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids
Felt Board / Magnet Board:
I printed out the pieces from the Preschool Pintables and glues them to some thick poster paper we have in our supply room. Then I put magnet coins on the back of them and used out magnet board to tell the story!
I left out a few pieces because I couldn't find the immediately while I was going through the story, but I don't think anyone noticed. It helped to familiar myself with the rhyme beforehand - when I picked up "cat" I knew the next line was "imagine that! To swallow a cat!"
Craft:
Our slightly lopsided Pumpkin Scarecrow - because it's fall you know!
How many did you have?
All together we totaled 37!
How did it go?
The kids liked the silly stories and a few, knowing the were silly, laughed at everything we said (whether is was actually silly or not). It's definitely one for giggles!
