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February 04, 2010
What I Did in Stories and Art the Other Day and How It Worked Out
This was my day on Tuesday:
6:00am: Wake up.
6:30am: Lucas arrives.
6:30-7:15am: Read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
7:15-8:00am: Shower, get dressed, dry hair, etc.
8:00-8:30am: Make breakfast, make lunch, clean up kitchen.
8:30-8:45am: Practice piano.
8:45-9:30am: Drop Lucas off at school, pick up prescription at CVS, drive to work.
10:15-11:00am: Stories and Art happens.
11:00am-1:00pm: Check email, check voicemail, check in with staff, get room ready for afternoon program.
1:00-2:00pm: Picturing America for Homeschoolers program, this one focused on the Brooklyn Bridge.
2:00-5:30pm: Cover the reference desk in the Children’s Room.
Then the evening involved a bunch of driving around, eating dinner, and watching the season premiere of LOST. As you can see, not much time for posting storytime. I don’t have time for it today, either, but I’m going to do it anyway.
Longer “Open Them, Shut Them”
“Read this with Gestures” by John Ciardi
“Mittens for the Snow Time”
We always have a lot of latecomers, so I’ve decided to try to make the opening not-reading portion longer so that hopefully all the kids are in and settled before we start reading a longer story.
Olivia… and the Missing Toy by Ian Falconer
At the end, one of the kids said, “I knew it was the dog.”
“Funny Little Snowman”
I’ve always liked this rhyme, but I seem to like it even more this season.
I Stink! by Kate and Jim McMullan
This book about a garbage truck with attitude is so fun to read and is rich with the kinds of words that grab kids’ attention (“underwear,” “puppy poo”) and that grow their vocabularies (“pistons,” “compacted,” “dual op”).
“Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree”
Last week, we did this with hand motions, and this week the kids did the motions while I did the rhyme with my alligator puppet and five little monkeys on the flannel board. I continue to be highly amused by Mr. Crocodile eating all the monkeys one by one.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback
For the first time in quite a long time, I decided to use our big book version of this instead of our puppet set. I’d forgotten how perfect Taback’s illustrations and design are here.
“Sticky, Sticky Bubblegum”
“Three Little Pigs”
I used the flannel board to tell this. Always fun.
Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
“Um, Bob, what rhymes with HOW DO WE GET OUT?”
Art Time: Air-drying clay!
Posted by adrienne at February 4, 2010 07:55 AM
Comments
I think Rhyming Dust Bunnies is my favorite Jan Thomas title. I took it to preschool outreach this week and I think I may have giggled harder than the kids did. Mainly because I was so tickled that they thought is was HILARIOUS.
Posted by: Sarah at February 4, 2010 02:09 PM
How did we did story time or school visits before Jan Thomas? Those dust bunnies are the best.
Posted by: Martha at February 4, 2010 04:36 PM
Sarah, Oh, I know. The adults in the room all laugh, too. I love books like that.
Martha, Yes, indeed. You know, I still haven't read the new Dust Bunnies one. I swear I ordered it, but I haven't seen it come in. I have to follow up on that.
Posted by: adrienne at February 6, 2010 04:16 PM
That Jan Thomas line is pure comedy gold. Gets me every time.
Posted by: jules at February 7, 2010 03:57 PM
"Help?"
Posted by: adrienne at February 7, 2010 04:59 PM
Love I Stink! I made a prop where I color enlarged, laminated and backed the garbage truck with foam core. Then attached a small garbage bag and color copied the garbage items. Hand out to kids in the audience to come put in :) Very fun! "ugly underwear!"
I didn't know you were a LOST fan. I freakin obsessed. Wished I would have rewatched all 5 seasons before the final season aired....who is your favorite character(s)? Last night went so fast - wish every week was 2 hours!
Posted by: Cheryl at February 10, 2010 01:52 PM
Cheryl, I was thinking I needed to rewatch some of LOST, too. I don't have a clock in my living room (I call it "the room without time"), and so it was quite a shock when LOST was over last night. I could not believe it had been an hour.
That idea for I Stink sounds so fun! I might have to give that a try myself.
Posted by: adrienne at February 10, 2010 07:47 PM
You so still have to tell me your favorite LOST character(s)! I have no idea why I like to know this so much from other people who watch.
Posted by: Cheryl at February 10, 2010 10:24 PM
Oh, yes! My favorite character changes a lot, but right now, I'd say it's Sawyer. His journey has been an interesting one, and I think he's finally come through it to be a truly better person. I do kind of worry they're going to screw that all up now, though.
Posted by: adrienne at February 12, 2010 03:10 PM