Wee Czytaj w kolorze!*

Thursday, July 7th, during Wee Read we had our monthly bilingual storyhor, Polske Bajki. Ms. Margaret joined us awe read our stories and translated them into Polish for us.

Today we started with a colorful book about a negative little boy: David Shannon's No, David! (Nie, David!)
Then we learned signs for colors and read Sheila Hamanaka's All the Colors of the Earth and Dr. Suess's My Many Color Days.

For our craft we made a cool color game: ice cream color match game.

Wee Read meets Thursdays at 10:30 AM.
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*Wee Read in Color

A Few of Our Favorite Books!

Wee Reads was a hodgepodge of activities today! Due to illness we postponed our Children's Book Week activities until today. Ms. Margaret joined us for Polske Bajki, our bilingual Polish/English storytime, and we had a blast reading our favorite books!

We read
Click Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin
As we read Click, Clack, Moo our library friends helped us with 'typing' and mooing.

I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow
As we read our library friends helped us by shouting out the body parts that were being painted.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
While reading this book we helped the caterpillar eat his way through the week using a cool puppet that a friend made for us.

For a craft we used a variation of DLTK's Bouncy Caterpillar and made caterpillars and a hybrid caterpillar/butterfly.

Enjoy!

The caterpillar is now a fat caterpillar!

He's eating a leaf

Our friends showing the little caterpillar eating a leaf






The butterfly emerging from the cocoon







A caterpillar butterfly hybrid






The creative process

 

A friend showing her caterpillar





How wings are made!

Wee Reads is our preschool storytime. We meet Thursdays beginning at 10:30!

Polske Bajki is a our monthly bilingual storytime.





 

Whose Shoes? Traveling Trunk

Our celebration of Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job (the Pennsylvania One Book Every Young Child selection for 2011) continued with exploration of the Traveling Trunk. The Traveling Trunk is developed by museum educators to help expand upon the concepts in Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job. Each trunk is filled with fun book-related activities, games and manipulatives for young children, as well as a guide for librarians and educators that encourages use of the trunk contents in activities that are aligned with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards.

For Sleepytime Tales and Wee Reads we set up stations for our library friends to explore. Thursday morning we also had the added benefit of Polskie Bajki (Polish Tales) and we had special guest Ms. Margaret read Whose Shoes and A Pair of Socks by Stuart J. Murphy in Polish.

Concepts from the trunk we explored:

Literacy
-books

Shoes/socks
-lacing
-tying
-matching

Careers/Community Helpers
-Storybook Puppet Theater
-puzzles

Math and Measuring
-graphing what size our feet are
-matching
-patterns

Art
-Photography
-designing our own shoes







The stage for Storybook Puppet Theater



Office Friday and Firefighter Frank





More puppets to use in the theater




Lacing area to get lots of practice




Another lacing puzzle




Match the shoes!




Lacing and tying activities to take home




Decorate your own footwear...using animal stamps!




More matching games




Safety materials from a Grandkit




Joey...ready for his next career!




Graphing and measuring station




How big are your feet?




Library friends exploring the stations



Ms Margaret showing us her lacing skills



Storybook Puppet Theater
"We're Friends!"




Ms. Margaret helped us tie and lace




A budding photographer