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.

Colors Story Time -- Yellow: March 24-25, 2014

Books:
The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss *
Hello, Day! by Anita Lobel *
In My New Yellow Shirt by Eileen Spinelli *
This Is the Sunflower by Lola M. Schaefer *

Craft: Paper Plate Sunflower
Children started by coloring the center of a small paper plate as the sunflower center.  Then strips of yellow paper were glued around the edge of the plate for the petals.  The petals were looped with each end of the yellow paper glued on opposites sides of the plate.

Literacy Extensions:
-- See how many things your child can come up with that are the color yellow.
-- Discuss how a plate grows and then plant a seed with your child.  Check on it often to see how long it takes to come up. (i.e. This Is the Sunflower)