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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Kansas Reads to Preschoolers 2013 - "Dog's Colorful Day"

I am not entirely sure how long it has been going on, but once a year a committee selects a preschool-age-appropriate book title to be used for a statewide event called Kansas Reads to Preschoolers (click here to go to website for information and examples).   Last year the book was Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archumbault.  This year's title was Dog's Colorful Day, by Emma Dodd.  The website referenced above had a lot of good activities to go with the book.  
 
 



M & N

M Books:
Walsh    Mouse Count
Walsh    Mouse Shapes
RileyMouse Mess
Roti    Cat Spies Mouse
Kirk    Library Mouse
Dahl    Mouse says "Sorry" (board book)
Wilson    Big Bear, small mouse
Numeroff    If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Wood    The Little Mouse, the red ripe strawberry & the big hungry bear
Bingham    Z is for Moose
Numeroff    If you give a moose a muffin
Lang    Grumpy Monkey
Lang    Grumpy Monkey says No!
Lang    Grumpy Monkey are we there yet?
Lang    Grumpy Monkey up all night long
Dahl    Little Monkey calms down (board book)
Martin    Spunky Little Monkey
Patricelli    Be Quiet, Mike!
Lemke    Book-o-Masks: a wearable book (board book)
Brett    The Mitten
Gag    Millions of Cats
Yarrow    Puff, the magic dragon



 

N Books:
Schwartz    The three ninja pigs
Brett    The Snowy Nap
Willems    I Will Take a nap (Piggie & Elephant)
Wood    The Napping House
Verdick    Noses are not for picking
James    Nurse Clementine
Litwin    The Nuts: bedtime at the Nut house
Litwin    The Nuts: Keep rolling
Litwin    The Nuts: Sing and dance in your polka-dot pants
Cordell    Hello Neighbor!
 McKellar    Goodnight, Numbers
Capote    Monster Knows Numbers

 

 
 




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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

November 5, 2013 - COOKIES!!!! YUM!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Duckling-Gets-Cookie-Pigeon/dp/1423151283/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383673176&sr=1-2&keywords=the+duckling+gets+a+cookie














An absolute favorite author of mine is Mo Willems.  I think I would be like a teenage girl meeting a rock star if I ever got to meet him.  He is just FANTASTIC children's author, with a wonderful and witty sense of humor.  I don't know that I have found one of his books yet that I don't like.  The Pigeon books and the Piggie and Elephant books are by far my favorite, but I say that and I really like the Knuffle Bunny books, too.  It's hard to pick!!!

This morning we began with The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?, by Mo Willems

I had made some felt figures for the story, and after we read the book, we "retold" the story using the felt pieces on the flannel board.  We had a relatively small group, so it went okay, but they are a young group, and they have a hard time not being very handsy and want to "help"...it worked okay today because I had several pieces and they all behaved and cooperated really well together. 

We then did the classic "Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar".  It's a fun, but again because we are a pretty young group, most of them didn't "get" that they were supposed to "answer" back, but it still went fine.  The two older ones did get it, and we ALL sang the whole thing with the little ones.
Here is a link to a really nice printable to use with the song.
http://mrsgilchristsclass.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-stole-cookie-from-cookie-jar.html

After sharing apple juice and of course some cookies with the children, we concluded our storytime this morning with the very classic big book of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff.  A definite favorite. Many of the children commented that they had the book at home and knew the story, but I think that is totally awesomely acceptable!