I've been enjoying eggs and chickens these past few weeks and finally got to use this theme for Pre-K. But Spring as sprung and Easter has passed, so it's time to move on...
Memory Box: A cube (imagine my surprise when some of the kids identified it as such) from The Most Wonderful Egg in the World.
Game: Egg or No Egg? The children helped us decide which category to put the animals in. Some were a little tricky (like snakes, because most snakes lay eggs, but not all....) but these kids know their stuff!
Books:
The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine. I adapt this story quite a bit.
I totally copied Abby the Librarian's flannel for this book. She kindly gave me permission to post though. She has a great blog and also came up with the Memory Box idea that we all love so much.
Abby's blog post
Roly-Poly Egg by Kali Stileman. I love this lively, colorful story about Splotch and her roly poly little egg which is returned safely to her in time to hatch.
Charlie Chick: We read this short pop-up book just for fun! We then found Charlie with this rhyme "Six Little Chicks"
Music:
"The Chicken Dance"
"I Know a Chicken". This song is a little long, but I still love it. We shook eggs with hen puppets and danced like chickens.
Very cute storytime! I am doing chicks next month during our farm storytimes so I will be "stealing" some of your ideas. :-)
ReplyDeleteI have not read Roly-Poly Egg yet so I am going in search of it now. It looks like a fun, colorful book. Thank you for the suggestion!
I have started a new feature on my blog called a Blog Hop. The first one is about frogs: http://librarystorytimeabcs.blogspot.com/2012/04/frog-abcs-blog-hop.html
The reason I mention it is because my next Blog Hop will start soon and it is a Chick and Egg ABC's Blog Hop. I hop you will link up your awesome post when I get it up and running. Your ideas are perfect ones to add to a Chick and Egg storytime resource!