Facebook Story Time: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak - 6/2/20

This is part of a series of weekly story times offered on Facebook due to the current health crisis.  Each Tuesday, a recording of a story will be posted on Facebook.  It will be available to view for a week before a new story is posted.

Go to www.facebook.com/JeffCoLibMo and click on Videos to view the latest story.


Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Books:
Boy Soup by Loris Lesynski
Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance by Keith Graves
Monster Hug! by David Ezra Stein
          * Books available on Tumblebooks through www.jeffcolib.org.

Craft:  Paper Plate Wolf
- Draw child's face in center of paper plate
- Cut two tall triangles out of white paper and glue onto top of plate for wolf ears
- Cut or tear white tissue paper into small squares
- Glue tissue paper pieces to edges of plate to make wolf suit
- Glue black yarn or paper strips onto cheeks for wolf whiskers



Extension Activities:
- Ask your child what a "wild rumpus" is.  Then have a monster dance party.  Try dancing like different types of monsters (i.e. Frankenstein, werewolf, ghost, etc.)
- Have a discussion of behavior and consequences.  Ask what they think Max did to deserve being sent to his room.
- Watch the movie version of "Where the Wild Things Are".

Facebook Story Time: Plankton Is Pushy by Jonathan Fenske - 5/26/20

This is part of a series of weekly story times offered on Facebook due to the current health crisis.  Each Tuesday, a recording of a story will be posted on Facebook.  It will be available to view for a week before a new story is posted.

Go to www.facebook.com/JeffCoLibMo and click on Videos to view the latest story.

Plankton Is Pushy by Jonathan Feske

Books:
Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale
Down by the Sea with Mr. McGee by Chris Van Dusen
I'm a Manatee by John Lithgow
          * Books available on Tumblebooks through www.jeffcolib.org.

Craft: Under the Sea Paper Craft
Craft is pictured at left.
- Color a paper plate as the ocean.
- Glue on tissue paper strips or pieces of yarn for seaweed.
- Glue on goldfish crackers.






Extension Activities:
- See how many different ocean animals your child can name (i.e. shark, dolphin, crab, etc.).
- Watch an ocean themed movie such as Finding Nemo, Shark Tale, or The Little Mermaid.
- Make an ocean sensory bottle.  Fill a third of a recycled water bottle with water and add a couple drops or blue food coloring.  Shake to spread the color.  Fill the rest of the bottle with vegetable oil.  You can also drop in some small ocean figures if you have them (fish, stars, etc.).  Seal the bottle by gluing the lid on.

Facebook Story Time: Still a Gorilla by Kim Norman - 5/19

This is a series of weekly story times offered on Facebook due to the current health crisis.  Each Tuesday, a recording of a read story will be posted on Facebook.  It will be available to view for a week before a new story is posted.

Go to www.facebook.com/JeffCoLibMo to view the latest story.
Still a Gorilla by Kim Norman

Additional Books:
Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
For Just One Day by Laura Leuck
If I Were You by Richard Hamilton
          * Book available on Tumblebooks

Craft: Gorilla Puppet

- Color template of gorilla's face before cutting it out
- Glue face onto popsicle/craft stick
- Twist a pipecleaner around stick below the head to make gorilla's arms.






Extension Activities:
- Encourage your child to get up and move by acting out the animals during the story.
- Ask your child to use their imagination to come up with more animals to extend the story.
- Go outside to look at the clouds.  See if you can find any that look like animals.


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Facebook Story Time: Carrot & Pea by Morag Hood - 5/12/20

This is a series of weekly story times offered on Facebook due to the current health crisis.  Each Tuesday, a recording of a read story will be posted on Facebook.  It will be available to view for a week before a new story is posted.
Go to www.facebook.com/JeffCoLibMo to view the latest story.


Carrot & Pea by Morag Hood

Additional Books:
Chicken, Pig, Cow by Ruth Ohi
Let's Do Nothing by Tony Fucile
Odd Velvet by Mary E. Whitcomb
          * Books available on Tumblebooks

Craft: Carrot Bookmark
- Color template of carrot before cutting out.  (Template at left.)
- There are several options of things that can be glued to top of carrot -- yarn, tissue paper strips, colored paper strips.







Extension Activities:
- Carrot & Pea talks about how things are the same and different.  Ask your child to find similarities and differences between different items.  (i.e. apple vs. orange, dog vs. cat)
- It's probably been a while since your child has seen some of his/her friends.  Make cards or write letters to send to some friends they are missing.

Facebook Story Time: Ten Hungry Pigs by Derek Anderson - 5/5/20

This is the first in a series of weekly story times offered on Facebook due to the current health crisis. Each Tuesday, a recording of a read story will be posted on Facebook.  It will be available to view for a week before a new story is posted.  Go to www.facebook.com/JeffCoLibMO to view the latest story.

Ten Hungry Pigs by Derek Anderson

Additional Books:  

Little Oink by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Pigs by Robert Munsch

       * Both books available on Tumblebooks

Craft:  Pig Windsock

- Color template of pig's head before cutting it out.  (Template at bottom of post.)

- Color a piece of paper for pig's body.  Roll it into a cylinder and glue.

- Glue pig's head to top of cylinder.

- Cut four long strips of paper and color to make pig's legs.  Accordian fold the strips and glue to bottom of the cylinder.

- Tape or hole punch/tie a piece of string to the top to turn into a windsock.

Extension Activities:

- Practice counting.  Ask your child to count how many of each thing they eat at a meal.  (i.e. chips, grapes, carrots, etc.)

- Ask your child to design the perfect sandwich.  What all would they include on it?  What would they refuse to put on a sandwich?

- Share a version of "The Three Little Pigs" with your child.  

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