Mouse's First Spring

Mouse's First Spring by Lauren Thompson

I both want to share my flannel and sell additional sets. This is a perfect book for spring which is right around the corner! Info below after post. 🌼

Summary: One bright day, Mouse and Momma go out to play. The wind blows something feathery and plump (a bird), something wiggly and pink (a worm), and something green that hops and leaps (a frog).  But before it's time to go back inside, Mouse finds something with petals that's soft and new.... the prettiest flower he's ever see!  Could it mean that spring is finally here?

The mouse is about 16 inches ear to toe

Frog flannel piece

Snail flannel piece

Worm flannel piece

This set accompanies (and is being sold WITH) Mouse's First Spring by Lauren Thompson.  You can see the board book version here, but I'm selling the set with the hardcover.

This is my set for personal use and I have additional sets just like it.  If you would like a set and want something a little different, I can customize (ex. you might want a full flower with all the petals or the petals to be light blue... I can work with stuff like that!).  Order asap as this set takes a bit of time to make.

For purchase, email at tara@foxandbearelp.com or comment below.  I appreciate your business! 🌷

$56.00 (includes shipping within the US with tracking number AND hardcover book format.
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Just because I love these guys....

Now that Chicken Big can read, he and Chicken Little love to do their own storytimes with my materials.  He usually reads to her and she does the props. 🐔🐤

Pre-K 4-4-13 Spring!!

Oh the vivid memories of melting snow, April showers, flowers growing, the warmth....  Not so much the same in AZ, but it's fun to talk about seasons in other parts of the country too!

Kids: 36
Siblings: 6
Adults: 27

Memory Box: Rabbit from Hurray for Spring!

Books:

 I often find myself torn between 3 books, but never get to the third because of time.  My 3 choices for today were:

Hurray for Spring! by Patricia Hubbell.  I love the large, bold illustrations and delightful text in this book about a boy exploring spring.

 

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes. With great storytime-sharing illustrations, this book follows a hibernating bear as he dreams his way into spring.

 

 

Spring is Here by Will Hillenbrand. Excited that spring as finally arrived, Mole tries to wake Bear.

Game:

Guess the Baby Animal: Baby animals often hatch or are born in the spring.  Can you guess some of these?  I held up several pictures and was surprised by some of the correct answers!

 

Movement Activity:  "The Ants Go Marching" with scarves

First we watched this video so the kids could visualize the ants marching out of the rain and going underground:

 

 

Afterwards, we pretended we were the ants as I played a different version and we marched with colorful scarves.

 

Letter of the Day:  Uu

Most Pre-K kids know their letters, so I usually try to challenge them with a game (besides, Olive gets so excited about the Letter of the Day):

 

The kids will also get these kinds of worksheets from now on to take home and practice writing: http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha_tracers_zb1/u1.htm

 

Flannel:  "Hooray for Springtime!" (From book by Liz and Dick Wilmes)

 

We moved colorful scarves along with the action words and raised them up high to cheer the final line of each verse. 

 

Now it's time to fly our kites (fly scarves up high)

Fly our kites, fly our kites

Now it's time to fly our kites

HOORAY FOR SPRINGTIME!

 

Watch the worms twist and wiggle (twist up scarves and wiggle them)

Twist and wiggle, twist and wiggle

Watch the worms twist and wiggle

HOORAY FOR SPRINGTIME!

 

Watch the lightning snap and crack (clap above head)

Snap and crack, snap and crack

Watch the lightning snap and crack

HOORAY FOR SPRINGTIME!

 

ETC...

 

 

 



Fingerplay:  Here is the beehive (for all those bees in Hurray for Spring!)

 

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!)