Family Story Time: Around the Table That Grandad Built -- 5/16-17/22

Story Times are held weekly on Monday and Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am and Tuesday evenings at 6:00 pm.  Online Story Times will be posted weekly on Tuesday mornings.  (The video is available to watch for one week before a new one is uploaded.)

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Around the Table That Grandad Built by Melanie Heuiser Hill
Mail Harry to the Moon! by Robie H. Harris

Books:
Bedtime at the Nut House by Eric Litwin
Dad's First Day by Mike Wohnoutka
If It Weren't for You by Charlotte Zolotow
One Family by George Shannon
Where's Baby? by Anne Hunter

Will It Be a Baby Brother? by Eve Bunting

Craft: Sunflower

- Cut out a 3" circle from brown paper and color as center of sunflower

- Cut out 12-15 2" circles from yellow paper

- Fold yellow circles into triangles by folding both sides over the other

- Glue yellow circles around edge of brown circle for petals

- Color a jumbo craft stick green and glue to back of sunflower for stem

Extension Activities:

- Make a family meal together -- each person doing a different part of the meal.  If a child is too young to help cook/bake, they can set the table or make decorations.

- Go on a nature walk together as a family.  Make it fun by incorporating a game such as I Spy or a color scavenger hunt.

Siblings Story Time: May 19-20, 2014

Books:
Another Brother by Matthew Cordell
The Boy Who Wouldn't Share by Mike Reiss *
I Will Never NOT Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Mail Harry to the Moon by Robie H. Harris *
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman *

Craft: Straw Rocket
Children glued together two rocket cutouts along the sides and top leaving the bottom open.  A straw stuck in the bottom of the rocket.  We had made these before and they worked -- shooting off when blowing into the straw.  However they did not work this week.  I think the straws might have been too narrow.  The children still enjoyed the rockets as puppets though.

Literacy Extensions:
- Have your child come up with new names and descriptions for food (i.e. I Will Never NOT Ever Eat a Tomato)
- Discuss how things change when a new brother or sister joins the family.  Then discuss how things stay the same.