Happy President's Day!
No work this Monday as the library is closed in honor of President's Day. Last week ended I Can Read Club planning. Hopefully, it will make a brief return in the summer as a means of introducing the program to new potential families for the fall session. In the meantime, Storytime continues. I'm hoping this week's theme is not a prediction of things to come, though, the weatherman says different. Have a great week!
Snow Day!
Skill Tip:
Before preschoolers can learn to read, they need to become familiar with letter sounds.
Linking letter sounds with pictures is a great way to introduce your young child to the
alphabet.
NOTE: Create a Letter Wand to use during storytime instead of pointing to pictures to stress /s/:
Cut out a magazine picture of something that begins with the letter you plan to focus on such as a ball for the letter S. Glue the picture onto lightweight cardboard to give it stability and tape it to the top of a tongue depressor. Print the letter, in this example the letter S, on the tongue depressor just below the picture. Give the wand a little “magic” by adding ribbons or glitter.
Parents can create their own letter wand for home use. Touch the Letter Wand to things in the home that begin with the letter S each time saying the objects’ names. Before playing at home, encourage them to create a list of objects with names that begin with the selected letter. Use the list as a guide when they help their children look for things to touch. For example, S-objects found in many homes include: Soap, Sunscreen, Saucepans, Sauce, Spaghetti, Slow Cooker, Skirts, Swimmers, Shoes, Socks,
Sunglasses, Shopping Bags, Stationary
Book Introduction/Modeling skill:
As you read through the book Snowballs by Lois Ehlert, name and point to pictures in the book that begin with /s/ while stressing the word’s first letter sound. As you continue reading, point to some of the pictures (seeds, sack, shoelaces, squirrel, spot, sun, shrinking), say the word stressing the s and have the children repeat the word in the same manner. When finished reading, ask the group if they can think of other words that begin with the /s/ sound.
Additional theme related book (optional):
Snow Inside the House by Sean Diviny
Tie-in song, rhyme, fingerplay and/or large group activity:
IT IS SNOWING
Tune: “Frere Jacques”
It is snowing, it is snowing,
Falling down, falling down.
Winter winds are blowing,
Drifts are slowing growing,
All around, all around.
Making a Snowman Action Rhyme
Start when snow falls and piles on the ground.
Act out snow falling and a pile developing.
First, roll a great big bottom that’s round.
Pretend to roll a big snowball.
Next, make a middle-sized ball of snow.
Pretend to roll a medium snowball.
Then, roll a ball for the head, just so.
Pretend to roll a small snowball.
Stack up the snowballs one, two, three.
Pretend to stack the snowballs.
Last, put on the hat, it’s a snow friend for me!
Pretend to add a hat and hug the snowman.
Additional Book(s):
Mouse’s First Snow by Lauren Thompson
A Perfect Day for It by Jan Fearnley
Snowball by N. Crews
Snow Party by harriet Ziefert
Tie-in Activity
Making a Snowman booklet (see sources)
Glue
Crayons
staplers
Sources
Moore, Suzanne and Lucia Kemp Henry, Literacy Building Booklets, Scholastic, 2007
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