Pre-K Library Storytime

Book:  If I Were a Polar Bear , a pop-up book by Rives.  This book reads much better backwards, I don't know why. I start at the end and work my way to the front. Book: Wild Tracks by Jim Arnosky, j591.479. This book shows the tracks of wild animals, which is pretty cool. Next year, make white sparkly felt tracks so the kids can see the shapes on the rug and measure against their feet. Play: I had a felt snowman to assemble. "Let's make some snowballs," I said. We scoooped up the snow, we packed it tight, and then we threw it against the black flannelboard. They got into it.  Then we looked at the snowballs we made. How many were there? What were the sizes? I called on children to move them around, and they made a snowman shape very quickly. "Hmmm, what else do I have here?" and I pulled out my carrot (yum yum), my black top hat, my black rocks called coal, etc., and then what did we make? A snowman! What should we call it? "Frosty!" shouted Ale...

Well, where was everyone? Carson's gone to Louisiana, Ben is in New York, I think, Olivia is???, you kids travel more than I do!  Have a great holiday!  I'll be doing a storyhour next week so I hope to see you then if you aren't riding elephants in Indonesia or touring the Tower in London! Craft: Arianna and her brother worked very hard on Thank You cards for their grandmother.  

Book: Santa's New Jet by David Biedrzycki is written in the first person, so I put on a nice big red blouse, belted it up with a wide black belt, put on my Santa hat & read using my funny deep Santa voice.  Song: Reindeer Pokey . We put our hooves, antlers & tails in! Book:  Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia.  We were a very young and surpisingly male group, so this was a welcome entry. This is a particularly great readaloud by Emma Garcia -- bright, colorful pictures of jeeps, sports cars, vans, etc., each making their own noise -- love making car noises! -- and each zooming, gliding, rush, etc.   Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star , in honor of the cars going to sleep at the end of Toot Toot           Five Little Gingie Men.  First we counted to five, then I brought out my big happy looking Gingerbread Men with their big numbers on them, and I was very happy to discover that Oliver knows all his numbers by sight! Great work...

Exciting news!  Wendy Savage, whose children go to Montessori-on-the-Sea, will come to our Friday storyhour during the craft period to answer questions about using Montessori in the home and talk about her children's experiences in a Montessori school.  She's bringing some Montessori materials to demonstrate. When Wendy approached me, I suddenly remembered that grueling year in Los Angeles when I studied the Montessori technique!  I've made up a few examples or the practical materials and have brought them in to show.