Black & White Storytime - March 4, 2015

I still have the sign-in board up. Children are completing the X, which helps them practice crossing the midline.
Good Morning Song

Book: Darkness Slipped In by Ella Burfoot

Song with egg shakers: Shaker Song by Debbie Doo Wop and Dynamite Dan

Book: Round Trip by Ann Jonas

Song: Scarves on Your Laps by Johnette Downing

Book: The Foggy, Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt

Book: Black Meets White by Justine Fontes


Goodbye songs & Bubbles

During Playgroup, I had puppets made up. These were simple animal figures (yay for dye cuts!) glued to a popsicle stick. I set up our projector screen for a shadow puppet show! Each child could take home 2 of the puppets to play with at home. (Please excuse my messy "office." We lack space and my stuff has to go somewhere for easy use.)

I also had various objects out for crayon rubbings. I set out the book The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin for children to explore.

Next Week: Birds!

Colors Storytime

Hello Song with scarves today












Book: A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman












Song: What is the Color? I borrowed this from The Mailbox, issue Aug/Sept 2014. I switched up some of the lyrics, but not too much. It is to the tune of BINGO.

What is the color of the a plum?
(Have them guess then show the colored paper) Why purple is it's name-o!
/p/ /p/ purple purple (3x)
Purple is it's name-o.

Sun - yellow

Leaf - green

Rose - red

Snow - white

Bat - black

Book: GO! GO! GO! STOP! by Charise Mercile Harper The kids helped me with the "go" and "stop" parts throughout the book. What a great book! It really got them involved!

Stop & Go activity with a felt traffic light.
We played the game similar to Mother May I/Red Light Green Light, only all kids could go when I held up the green circle, then stopped when I help up the red one. I prompted them the first time and then didn't talk at all the second time. What fun!







Interactive Story: Is It Red? Is It Yellow? Is It Blue? by Tana Hoban. I asked them different questions about the pages - colors, amount, what are they doing, etc.

Felt song: Brown Skunk, Brown Skunk

Similar to "Brown Bear, Brown bear what do you see?" only with different colored skunks. I passed out the skunks and when I sang out their color, they brought it up to show everyone by placing it on the feltboard.

Goodbye Songs and Bubbles

Activity: Spray Painting

I put water and paint into spray bottles. The kids took turns writing their name on a piece of paper the painting with the spray bottle. They turned out so unique and fantastic!!

Next Week: Mother Goose!

Colors Storytime April 30

We started with our welcome songs, I showed off my colorful socks, and then we ...

read "Where is the Green Sheep?" by Mem Fox.

Next, I passed out beanbags (borrowed from IFLS) and we danced around to Greg and Steve's Beanie Bag Dance. This song is always a hit!

Then we read "Blue Chicken" by Deborah Freedman and "Tap the Magic Tree" by Christie Mathison. I did the first few actions of "Magic Tree" than walked around and let the children take turns with the other actions. Some, like blow a kiss to the tree, I had everyone do. Good fun!

Then, I added a few words to Jim Gill's Sneezing Song:

Please don't feed me black-eyed peas
You know what they will do
For if you feed me black-eyed peas
I'll have to sneeze.
Ahh...ah.....ahhh... CHOO!!!

Then: orange macaroni and cheese.
Then: brown chocolate chip cookies.

Then i got out Patrick George's book, "Magic Colors."

After goodbye songs and bubbles, the kids enjoyed play-doh.

Next week: CATS! May 17 is our final spring storytime. If it is nice out, plan to meet at Keller Park.

Storytime will resume at 9:30am on June 18.