Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Storytime: Cats & Dogs

I'm currently doing a 2s Storytime at one library, and a 3-5 Storytime at another. So in order to maintain some sanity, I'm trying to pick one theme for both each week and adapt it for the different ages. Some of my 2s are REALLY little and some of my 5s are already in school.

Books:





Doggies by Sandra Boynton
No No, Jo! by Kate and Jim McMullan
Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus by James Dean
Stretch by Doreen Cronin
Found Dogs by Lois Ehlert
They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel
Rrralph by Lois Ehlert
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin

More Ideas:
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Dog's Colorful Day by Emma Dodd
Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Waking Up? by Bill Martin, Jr.
The Doghouse by Jan Thomas

Songs/Fingerplays:

'The Paws on the Dog' (to Wheels on the Bus)
''Five Little Kittens'
'Three Little Kittens'

'Three Little Kittens'

One little, two little, three little kittens (count on fingers)
Were napping in the sun.
One little, two little, three little puppies said
 "Let's have some fun!" (count on other hand)
Up to the kittens the puppies went creeping (quiet voice)
as quiet as could be (have the puppy fingers creep to the kitty fingers)
Woof! Meow!
One little, two little, three little kittens
Went scampering up a tree! (have kitten fingers climb up)


2s Activity:

We used a fun bin full of plastic puppy finger puppets and had a blast!
Crafts:
2s: There's a million ways to use this awesome book by Emma Dodd. These laminated 'dogs' have been colored on, playdoughed on, even markered on! This time, I had the 2s place the color circle on different parts of Dog as I told the story (our copy of the book was out so I winged it and it was totally fun!)

3-5s: We used our bingo daubers to make dots on them!



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