Pre-K Kites

Great theme (and GREAT GROUP) on this very breezy day!

40 kids
6 siblings
34 adults

Books:

Kite Day by Will Hillenbrand.  Bear and Mole build a kite and take it out on a windy day, but when the weather suddenly turns stormy their kite provides shelter for baby birds.

 

Someone Bigger by Johnathan Emmett. Sam's dad says  he is too small to fly their new kite, but when dad and the rest of the town's human and animal residents get pulled up into the air, only Sam can save them.

 

I took this prop idea straight from Meghan!  She has an awesome blog!!  Thank you for sharing  =)

 

 

 

 

 

Our hero, Sam

 

Movement Song:  "Sticky, Sticky Bubblegum"

 

Letter of the Day:  Kk for kangaroo and kite

 

Caregivers, it's fun to play games with words and sounds like we did in storytime today.  Try giving your child the ending sound/s of words and letting them add the "Kk" sound to the beginning to figure out the words.

 

Flannel:  "Hooray for Springtime!"

 

 

Activity:  Make a rainstorm using your hands!

 

Since we had thunder and rainstorms in our flannel activity and in Kite Day, we simulated a rainstorm using only our hands in an activity like this http://bronxriver.org/puma/images/usersubmitted/file/015_CreateARainstorm.pdf



 

Wiggle Worms March 25, 2012

Animal Song: "If Animals Could Dance" (Sorry, CD not in collection)

Letter of the Day: Kk for kite

Book:  Big Fat Hen.  Big Fat Hen counts to ten in this classic rhyme with all her friends and all her chicks.  My Hen puppet popped out to say hello as we read, "9, 10, a big fat hen!"

Music: 

"Hokey Pokey" from the Wiggleworms CD (my favorite version!)

"Shake Your Sillies Out" (Sorry CD not in collection).  I love this version because we get to shake our sillies out, kick our kickers out, jump our jumpers out, hug our huggers out, clap our clappers out, and then jump really, really fast!

Flannel:  So Many Kites
(Adapted from http://www.nancymusic.com/SOM/2009/lots-of-cars.htm)

So many kites up in the sky (wave scarf or make diamond shape with hands)
What color kite is flying by? (X as many colors as you put up)

So manky kites up in the sky
What's the biggest/smallest/thinnest kite flying by?

Then we talked about patterns and where else they can see these patterns (on zebras, cheetahs, snails, etc.)
Finger Play:  Two Little Blackbirds We did this one last week too

Pre-K March 22, 2012 Spring!

Today we celebrated Spring!  It's a little less climatic here in Arizona (where we don't really have winter), but we still do get to enjoy the weather like folks in other states do.

Each child picked a colorful scarf on the way in to use throughout storytime.

Memory Box:  Rabbit (From Hurray for Spring!)

We discussed what happens in the spring and then sang the song below using flannel pieces and doing the actions/raising our scarves when we shout, "HOORAY FOR SPRINGTIME"

Flannel:

Books:
Hurray for Spring! by Patricia Hubbell.  Rhyming text (and stunning illustrations) celebrates the joys of spring.

Kite Day by Will Hillenbrand. Bear and Mole build a kite and take it out on a windy day, but when the weather suddenly turns stormy the birds are thankful for the kite.

Movement:
We danced to "The Ants Go Marching" using our scarves as umbrellas

Flannel:  So Many Kites
(Adapted from http://www.nancymusic.com/SOM/2009/lots-of-cars.htm)

So many kites up in the sky (wave scarf or make diamond shape with hands)
What color kite is flying by? (X as many colors as you put up)

So manky kites up in the sky
What's the biggest/smallest/thinnest kite flying by?

Then we talked about patterns and where else they can see these patterns (on zebras, cheetahs, snails, etc.)

Letter of the day:  Kk for kite (good guess, guys!)