This week we talked about birthdays! (Mine is tomorrow, so I figured it was the perfect theme 🙂 )
Songs:
The Goldfish By: Laurie Berkner
Tooty Ta By: Dr Jean
Flannel Board:
Books:
If you Give a Cat a Cupcake By: Laura Numeroff
A Birthday for Cow! By: Jan Thomas
Don’t Spill the Beans By: Ian Schoenher
Check out my birthday tag on my Shelfari page for more good books that I didn’t have time to read!
Craft:
I have a huge cupcake die cut that the kids colored and put “sprinkles” on.
This week we talked about owls!
Songs:
The Goldfish By: Laurie Berkner
Shakin’ Everywhere By: Jim Gill
Flannel Board:
Books:
Little Owl Lost By: Chris Haughton
A Book of Sleep By: Il Sung Na
Wow! Said the Owl By: Tim Hopgood
Check out my owl tag on my Shelfari page for more good books that I didn’t have time to read!
Craft:
We made these adorable owls out of craft tubes! Notice I didn’t say toilet paper tubes. I don’t like to collect those at work for crafts, it kinda grosses me out. So, I was able to purchase them here!
I had a special program this week where we made hand print art! The kids loved it so much. But who doesn’t love getting messy?! It was for ages 3-8 and there was a pretty good range of ages. First I had them come in and get an apron, paper plate, paper, and foam paint brush. Then I explained to them all what we were going to be doing. I figured it would be best to just pick two things and have the kids make those rather then have them go crazy doing whatever. So we made an octopus and a bird. They turned out so cute! I cannot believe how clean everyone was at the end. The aprons were spotless as well as the tables. This is the paint I used from Lakeshore, it was awesome and cleaned up very nicely. Here are some of the kid’s artwork:
This week we talked about food!
Songs:
Fruit Salad Salsa By: Laurie Berkner (We used the parachute for this song and pretended the parachute was the bowl and the kids LOVED it!)
My Ups and Downs By: Jim Gill (since we already had a the parachute out, we did this song too. They loved looking under it when we went up)
I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup By: Laurie Berkner
Flannel Board:
Books:
The Watermelon Seed By: Greg Pizzoli
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Pop-up version) By: Eric Carle
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? By: Karen Beaumont
Check out my food tag on my Shelfari page for more good books that I didn’t have time to read!
Craft:
We made ice cream cones out of paper die cuts and decorated them with sprinkles and cherries!
This week we talked about bedtime!
Songs:
My Bonnie By: Jim Gill (we used scarves)
Bubblegum By: Dr. Jean
Flannel Board:
5 Little Moons
Books:
Let’s Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy By: Jan Thomas
Dinosaur VS Bedtime By: Bob Shea
I Dream of an Elephant By: Ami Rubinger (With the flannel)
Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! By: Mo Willems
Check out my bedtime tag on my Shelfari page for more good books that I didn’t have time to read!
Craft:
We made bedtime mobiles out of die cuts!
Narrating Tales of Preschool Storytime 