Beautiful, Blithering Bugs! Letter B!

B is for blue, black, big, bright, bounce, boisterous, bun, brink, boil, band, and bugs!

To start our story time, we played with some fun bouncing balls!

Then we read:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle

Bugs Galore, by Peter Stein

Ask a Bug: And It Will Answer You

The Grouchy Ladybug, by Eric Carle

Polar Bear's Underwear, by Tupera Tupera

The Very Busy Spider, by Eric Carle

We sang:

The Isty Bitsy Spider

Five Green and Speckled Frogs - I had some special helpers with this song! We had a butterfly, a bee, a dragonfly, and a grasshopper!

Five green and speckled frogs, 
Sat on a speckled log, 
Eating some most delicious bugs, 
Yum yum! 
One jumped into the pool, 
Where it was nice and cool, 
Now there's only four green, speckled frogs! 

Count down until all the frogs are in the pool. 

I'm Scooping Up My Baby Bumblebee

For our craft, we made some button bugs!

And for our snack, we had some scrumptious grapes!

Next week, we're making some comic strips!

See You Later, Alligator! Story Time Letter A

A is for apple, abbey, aardvark, angel, Aussie, asparagus, ant, ape, and alligator!

To start off, we shook our sillies out with some egg-shaker fun!

Then we read:

Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator! by Mo Willems

Alligator Baby, by Robert Munsch

A Girl and Her Gator, by Sean Bryan

Mama Don't Allow, by Thacher Hurd

Alphabeasts, byWallace Edwards

We sang:

Five Little Monkeys Swinging in the Trees

Five little monkeys swinging in the trees, 
Teasing Mr. Alligator, 
"You can't catch me! You can't catch me!" 
Along came an alligator, 
Quiet as can be, and ... 
Snatched that monkey right out of the tree! 

Countdown from 4, 3, 2, ... 

One little monkey swinging in the trees,
Teasing Mr. Alligator, 
"You can't catch me! You can't catch me!" 
Along came an alligator, 
Quiet as can be, and ... 
"Haha, you missed me!" 

ABCs

A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P,
Q, R, S,
T, U, V,
W, X,
Y, and Z.
Now I know my ABCs,
Next time won't you sing with me!

The Ants Go Marching

 
For our craft, we made some chomping alligators!

And for snack, we had some tasty apples!

Next week, we're making some squiggly bugs!

TD Summer Reading Program Week 8 Ages 2-6

WEEK 8: Let's Play! 

 

For our last week at the Summer Reading Program we just had a party!! Since it was the last time seeing each other, the question of the day was "What has been the best part of summer?" It was really fantastic to hear all their responses and the kids loved listening to everyone's answers!

The first book we read was:

This story was obviously one of the children's favourites! There was lots and lots of excitement when they found out that we were reading Pete the Cat.

GAME: The first game we played was twister on the carpet. Once we went through which arm and leg was right and which one was left, we were ready to begin. There were lots of twists and stretches happening and most every game ended up in a big pile of giggles.

The second book we read was:

I think the rest of the people in the library thought there was a zoo in the programming room, there was a lot of barking, mooing, meowing and oinking that happened while reading this story!

The last book we read was:

After reading this book, there was quite the heated debate on if it was actually a duck or a rabbit. I think that we settled on in was a hybrid of both.

Then we went outside to play with the best thing ever! THE PARACHUTE!! There was lots of laughter and smiles while we played with it.

We played some tag:

Then came inside for our craft which was a bird feeder:

Materials: 

-Egg Carton (Cut in half for each child)

-Hole Punch

-Yarn

-Markers

-Stickers

-Bird Seed

Directions:

1) Start by decorating your egg carton using the marker and stickers.

2) Thread the yarn through the four hole punched corners of the egg carton and gather them at the top in a knot.

3) Add the bird seed to your egg carton, hang on a tree and wait for the birds to come!

http://thecreativecubby.blogspot.ca/2013/06/egg-carton-bird-feeder.html

Then you can't have a party without having cupcakes, so we all sat down and enjoyed some cupcakes! A lot of the kids left with chocolate beards (and a couple with chocolate t-shirts) but it was a delicious end to the Summer Reading Program! 

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Summer Reading Program, it was an incredible summer and I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did :)

TD Summer Reading Program Week 8 Ages 7-8

WEEK 8: Let's Play! 

 

For our last week at the Summer Reading Program we just had a party!! Since it was the last time seeing each other, the question of the day was "What has been the best part of summer?" It was really fantastic to hear all their responses and the kids loved listening to everyone's answers!

For the last day, I had a variety of 10 books all laid out and we all voted on which books to read! Unsurprisingly, the kids chose a lot of Robert Munsch books. 

The first book we read was:

 The second book we read was:

And the third book we read was:

After we read our books, we went outside to play some games!

The first game we played was Giant Jenga:

We played a couple different tag games, like Color Monster, Freeze Tag and Red Rover. Once the kids were all tuckered out from running around, we went inside to make our craft! 

Today we made a paperbag kite!

Materials List: 

• paper lunch bag
• colored streamers
• string or yarn
• crayons or markers
• tape
• scissors

Step 1
Cut off the bottom of the bag. Have an adult help you with this.


Step 2
Decorate the bag.



 


Step 3
Attach colored streamers with tape on one end of the bag—three streamers are just right for kite tails.



Step 4
Attach a length of string with tape on the opposite open end of the bag.


Step 5
Take it out in the breeze, or if there’s no breeze…run like the wind!

 

http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/science_out_of_school/science_in_your_community/community_events/whitehouse_easter/make_a_paper_kite 

 

We ran around outside and tested out our kites! 

 Then we sat in the sun, ate some watermelon and cupcakes and told jokes: a great end to the summer!

 

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Summer Reading Program, it was a fantastic summer and I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!