Theme: Clouds
Note: This theme leaves itself wide open to introducing nonfiction during storytime. (Thinking common core and big vocabulary;)
Skill Tip:
Before children learn actual letters, they are aware of shapes. Before they have the coordination to hold a pencil and write they need to develop gross motor skills. Help your child develop these skills through play.
Book Introduction/Modeling skill:
Get out the shaving cream and a laminated dark sheet of construction paper and create some letter-shaped clouds before or after reading the book Little Cloud by Eric Carle.
Additional theme related book (optional):
Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld
Clouds by Marion Dane Bauer (nonfiction)
Tie-in song, rhyme, fingerplay and/or large group activity:
Two little clouds one March Day
[Make two fists.]
Went sailing across the sky
[Move fists side to side.]
They went so fast, they bumped their heads
[Bump fists together.]
And both began to cry.
[Rub eyes with hands.]
Out came the big round sun who said
[Make huge circle over head with arms.]
Never mind my little dears,
I'll send sunbeams down
[Wiggle fingers on both hands downward.]
To dry your fallen tears.
Additional Book(s):
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
This is the Rain by Lola M. Schaefer
The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola (nonfiction)
Tie-in Activity
Name Cloud Poetry
9x12 white paper
Rainbow color strips 2x9- one for each letter of child’s name
Markers
Glue stick
Cut white paper into a cloud shape. Write child’s name in cloud. For each of the letters in the name, write a word that describes the child. Glue the words in name order at the bottom of the cloud.
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