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Monday, August 9, 2021

Counting Story Time: 8/9/21 (Outdoors) & 8/10/21 (Virtual)

Outdoor Story Times are held weekly on Monday mornings at 10:00 am and 11:00 am.  (Registration is required to attend.)  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)


Click HERE for this week's Story Time video.


Let's Count Goats! by Mem Fox
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman













Books:
Bear Counts by Karma Wilson
Chicka, Chicka, 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr.
Count the Monkeys by Mac Barnett
Dinosaur Countdown by Nicholas Oldland
Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree by Eileen Christelow
One Little Chicken: A Counting Book by David Elliott
The Right Number of Elephants by Jeff Sheppard
Soup for One by Ethan Long
Stack the Cats by Susie Ghahremani
Ten Pigs: An Epic Bath Adventure by Derek Anderson
Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Messing Counting Book by Pamela Duncan Edwards




Craft: Turtle Count
- Print out template (at left).
- Color turtles.
- Tear construction paper into small pieces.
- Glue the number of construction paper pieces to the turtles as indicated by the numbers on the shells.







Extension Activities:
- Practice counting throughout the day.  Examples include counting the number of chips on your plate for lunch, counting how many cars pass your house in a certain amount of time, counting the number of toys on the floor, etc.
- Sing various counting songs such as "Hundred Bottles of Rootbeer on the Wall", "Ten in a Bed", "The Ants Go Marching", etc.

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