The past couple weeks in Indiana have felt like summer! Yes, we wake up and it’s a bit chilly, but by
lunch time, it’s been between 70 and 80 degrees outside and I LOVE it! Although I am a Hoosier through and through,
I can’t stand Indiana weather so it was nice to get a mild winter and
unseasonably warm temperatures early in spring.
With all of this summer-like weather, it was easy to use watermelon for
our letter craft this week. When it gets
warm outside, nice, cool, refreshing watermelon is what I crave!
Materials: Index card with capital W, green crayon, pink
W cut from paper, watermelon seeds, and a glue stick.
Front of card
Back of card
1) Color the capital W green.
2) Trace the upper and lower case Ww on the back of the card.
3) Glue the pink W on the inside of the green W.
4) Glue seeds to pink W to make it look like a watermelon.
As for our second craft, well, my library recently came across our old
die cut machine in the basement.
Apparently everyone knew it was down there but me! I found the cutest watch die-cut and decided
it would be quick and easy to create.
When you are making 24 of anything, you definitely want to keep in mind
the process of creating as well as the intended outcome. This craft was the best of both world and I
thought the kids would really like it!
All from a die cut machine! |
This is the part where I always delve into my book choices and how easy
or difficult they were to find. This
week, I didn’t choose the first book, Miss Suzanne did! I was a little under the weather (rotten
sinus infection) and called in sick!
Like a champ, Miss Suzanne stepped in for me and did my Monday
programs. The book she chose was Watermelon
Day by Kathy Appelt. After
discussing this choice with Miss Suzanne, and reading it myself on Tuesday and
Wednesday, we each decided it was a little too long and needed to be shortened
for the attention spans of our listeners.
This was actually REALLY easy to do with this book without losing any of
the important content. Miss Suzanne did
also say that it was difficult to find a good watermelon book! HINT HINT…
authors and publishers... get on this!
I thought a book on watches would be easy to find. Instead of watches, most of the books at my
library were about clocks! So I went
with it when I found a great book by John Archambault entitled, Boom Chick
Rock. This book is great. The beat is great. The mentioning of dances, including the
Electric Slide, the Tango, and the Bunny Hop, is great! And the pictures are
great! Can you tell I really liked this
book? My kids also like being able to
participate in the reading of the book when the line “Everybody rock! Around
the room! Boom chicka rock, chicka rock, chicka boom!” came about. The more times we read this line, the louder
it got!
I didn’t introduce any new and fun music this week. Like I mentioned, due to my missing of
Monday, I didn’t have time to throw anything new together and I like to keep
all of my classes on the same schedule.
I did, however, add an old favorite to my Story Time classes. It’s another alphabet song, but this time you
use a bean bag to act out the different letters. The song, “Bean Bag Alphabet Rag,” by Hap
Palmer, is an old favorite and I can’t believe I have put it on my YouTube
channel before now! I hope you enjoy it
as much as my kids do!
That seems to be all for this week.
I can’t believe we are almost to the end of our Alphabet Adventure. It seems like yesterday that I started this
blog. Although I have a great craft for
next week and the letter Xx, I am struggling a bit with Yy. There is the norm of yo-yo, but if you have
any other ideas, let me know! I am a bit
desperate at this point! Thanks and tune in next week when I give a little
shout out to my mom!
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