Animals in Winter Story Time: January 6-7, 2020

Books:
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
First Snow by Bernette Ford
Moon Glowing by Elizabeth Partridge
Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! by Maureen Wright *
Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit by Il Sung Na *
When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan *

Craft: Winter Animals Picture
The kids colored a winter animals coloring sheet.  They then glued on snowflake sequins.

Extension Activities:
- Add some interaction into your reading of stories.  Ask your child what they think will happen on the next page.  Ask them to find items in the pictures as you read.
- Take a nature walk in the winter.  See what animals, plants, etc. you can spot on your walk.  Discuss with your child how things look different on winter walks vs. summer walks.

Winter Animals Story Time: January 19, 2016

Books:
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson *
Chaucer's First Winter by Stephen Krensky
Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! by Maureen Wright *
Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit by An Na *

Craft: Sleeping Bear Picture
The children colored a picture of a bear sleeping in the woods before gluing half a small paper plate ring (just the outer ring, the middle was cut out) over the bear to make it look like a cave.

Literacy Extensions:
- Learn about which animals hibernate through the winter and which stay awake.
- Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep! uses rhyming words.  Practice your rhyming by trying to end all of your sentences with rhymes.

Notes:
Story Time was not held on Monday, January 18 as the library was closed in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.