May storytime- monsters

We read Go Away Big Green Monster and Where the Wild Things Are and then we made paper plate monsters- we also sang

If You’re A Monster

If you're a monster and you know it, wave your arms,
If you're a monster and you know it, wave your arms,
If you're a monster and you know it,
Then your arms will surely show it, *
If you're a monster and you know it, wave your arms

If you're a monster and you know it, show your fangs...
If you're a monster and you know it, stomp your feet...
If you're a monster and you know it, show your claws...
If you're a monster and you know it, growl out loud...

• alternate line: And you really want to show it

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February Story Time

This week we read "Red Sled" by Lita Judge.  The children painted craft stick sleds red.  (I had assembled them first.)  Loving free play after stories and crafts!

January Story Times

In January we made puffy paint with shaving cream and glue (painted snow men on blue paper with buttons for eyes and buttons.)
We read "Snowmen at Night"

 Mittens with colored pom pom balls. (Jan Brett "The Mitten" and Kellogg's "Missing Mitten Mystery")


We played in fake snow with white conditioner and baking soda.


We also made trees with bubble wrap snow.  (Make the tree with crayons- black- they paint the bubble wrap white and press onto blue paper).

 We read "A Hat for Minerva Louise", "Super Truck", Seasons nonfiction "Winter", "It's Snowing" by Olivier Dunrea.

December Story Time

Easy Christmas Wreath


http://www.kidsplaybox.com/christmas-crafts-for-kids-christmas-wreath/

Sponge paint evergreen trees

Finger print Christmas lights



http://www.craftymorning.com/fingerprint-christmas-light-craft-for/

Star of David tape resist



https://www.melissaanddoug.com/blogpost?postId=hanukkah-craft-for-toddlers-and-older-kids-too

The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm

When Ellie's mom brings her grandfather home from the police station, Ellie does not really question his appearance, but she should have!  The brilliant scientist is no longer an old man, somehow he has discovered the secret to eternal youth and is now a teenage boy.  Because of his brush with the law, the teenage "long lost cousin" is now required to attend school with Ellie.  While her grandfather tries to enlist Ellie's help in breaking into his lab, to recover his ground breaking research, Ellie questions everything she thought she knew about science and life.  Will Ellie be able to deal with her embarrassing grandfather at middle school?  Will her grandfather finally get the fame and recognition he has worked so hard to accomplish?  What would life be like if everyone could be young again?  

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

So, this book is an autobiography in prose.  Both things usually do not make me happy.  But this was a beautiful autobiography about Jacqueline Woodson's remarkable childhood.  The book talks about her very early years in Ohio, where her father's successful black family was accepted.  After her parent's split, her mother decided to move the children back to Greenville, South Carolina, where her grandmother still felt safer on the back of the bus and did not go into certain stores because she didn't want to be followed around because she was black.  Woodson loved her grandparents and her summer days spent outside.  When her mother leaves to explore life in New York, Woodson is torn between missing her mother and enjoying her life with her grandparents.  Eventually the children move to New York, which is an adjustment (all that concrete) to her life in South Carolina.  Gradually Woodson finds her place and a new best friend.  A stunning walk through a period of history, with Woodson's powerful narration.