St. Patrick's Story Time: June 20-21, 2016

Books:
Good Luck Bear by Greg Foley *
Green Shamrocks by Even Bunting
The Luckiest St. Patrick's Day Ever! by Teddy Slater *
The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing *
Ten Lucky Leprechauns by Kathryn Heling

Craft: Paper Plate Leprechaun
This week's craft was based on the picture at left.  The kids colored a face and hair onto a large paper plate before gluing on a green hat.  They could cut slits around the plate for the beard if they liked.

Literacy Extensions:
- Learn about the history of St. Patrick's Day.  Tomie DePaola's book Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland gives a lot information about the real St. Patrick.
- Practice cutting shapes by making shamrocks out of various shapes (i.e. circles, hearts, ovals, etc.)

Colors Story Time -- Green: March 17-18, 2014

Books:
The Croaky Poky by Ethan Long *
A Girl and Her Gator by Sean Bryan
Good Luck Bear by Greg Foley *
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal *
Snip Snap! What's That? by Mara Bergman
Ten Lucky Leprechauns by Kathryn Heling *

Craft: Paper Plate Leprechaun
Children colored a face onto a small paper plate and a leprechaun hat before gluing the hat and red strips of paper to the plate as whiskers. 

Literacy Extensions:
- See how many green foods your child can list.  Discuss why they do or do not like them. (i,e.. Little Pea)
- Practice rhyming with your child.  Have them try to come up with several words that rhyme with "green".