The Tortoise and the Hare

Our second classic story was The Tortoise and the Hare.  Unfortunately I really didn't like any of the versions that we had here at the library.  Instead I ended up reading "Hurry Up and Slow Down" which is a Tortoise and the Hare story but definitely not the traditional one.  We also watched the movie of Chicken Little on the Smart Board which kids really liked.

Our craft was to make turtles.  The kids all decorated
their tortoises in different colorful ways.  

The kids liked this book, though many of them obviously
came from health conscious families since they were horrified
by all the junk the Boars were eating!

This was our main story as well as the one I made a felt board for.  

We have three strawberries, a tea cup, a lettuce leaf, a book, a river
with stone, a hare and a tortoise.  

The Three Little Pigs

In Terrific Tales this winter I have decided to use a selection of "Classic Stories."  For most of them since the children are already familiar with the tales I can use one traditional version, and then one new interpretation.  The kids seem to be enjoying it, but they also are routinely very confused by the redone versions.

I seem to be on a Pig kick this week.  We read "If You Give
a Pig a Pancake" by Laura Numeroff and this was the felt
board that I created for it.  The kids found the sweater for the
pig highly amusing.

I used our "Big Book"version.  So while I
held the giant version and read the kids
helped me put up the flannel board pieces.

This version of the Three Little Pigs was highly confusing to the kids
Even though they found it funny that the pigs left the story
they totally didn't get it.  

Our craft for the day came from my book "Cut, Tear, and Fold"
which is put out by Mailbox Books.  We took normal clean pigs
and then let them roll around in the mud till they were very very
dirty

Pumpkin Storytime

This storytime unfortunately got delayed due to Hurricane Sandy so instead of celebrating Halloween prior to Halloween we did it the week after.  The kids were quite restless during the stories but still seemed to enjoy them.

We read "The Vanishing Pumpkin" by Tony Johnston, "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams and "Room on the Broom" by Julia Donaldson.  As far as songs we did Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater and 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a gate.

The kids had a great time and I can't wait until next week when we read stories about Potatoes!

The felt board pieces for The Little Old Lady Who  Was Not Afraid of Anything

Our little old lady

The smiling Jack-o-lantern craft

Fall Apple Storytime

I know that doing an apple story time is about as boring as anything but somehow every year I can't resist doing it.  This time this was also my first story time at a new job.  So in honor of the new job I revamped my apple program.

Our felt board pieces for "Orange Pear Apple Bear."  We used
this book to practice our counting, colors, and numbers

The kids name tags for the fall session.  They also have maple
leaves on our bulletin board with their names on it.
Every time the kids come to story time they get a new sticker.

The three books that we used.  While we read the Apple Pie That Papa Baked
I had apple slices for the kids to eat.

Our counting apple tree that we made.
I used Accu-cut shapes to make the different pieces.