The Alphabet: WXYZ -- 4/26/22

Join us weekly on Tuesdays for an online Story Time featuring books read by Miss Amy.  The video will be available for a week before a new online Story Time is posted.

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The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee
I Dare You Not to Yawn by Helene Boudreau
Two at the Zoo by Danna Smith

Books:
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
Go Track a Yak by Tony Johnston
Goose Goes to the Zoo by Laura Wall
Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
What About Worms!? by Ryan T. Higgins
When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan
Where's Walrus? by Stephen Savage

Craft: X is for X-Ray Fish

- Print template on heavy paper or cardstock
- Cut out pieces (fish body, X bones)

- Color pieces

- Glue bones onto fish in center of body for skeleton

Extension Activities:

- Get outside and go on a walk.

- Make a treasure map with your child.  Have them hide a treasure in the house and then draw a simple map of the house with path and an X marking where the treasure is hidden.
- Go on a scavenger hunt to see how many things you can find that are the color yellow.

- Visit the zoo and make sure to see the zebras!

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W - Wolves & Weather: May 18-19, 2015

Books:
Bear in Sunshine by Stella Blackstone
Breathe by Scott Magoon
Diary of a Baby Wombat by Jackie French
Hello, Sun! by Dayle Ann Dodds *
I Am a Witch's Cat by Harriet Muncaster
I Am So Strong by Mario Ramos
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli *
We Need Water by Charles Ghigna
Winter Woes by Marty Kelley *
Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman *

Craft: Windsock
Children were given a piece of cardstock chopped in half longways and six pieces of crepe paper about a foot long each.  The children colored the cardstock however they liked before gluing the crepe paper along one of the long bottom edges of the cardstock.  The cardstock was then glued into a cylinder to make it a windsock.

Literacy Extensions:
- After reading Diary of a Baby Wombat, have your child keep a simple diary for a week.  If they are not yet writing, have them draw their activities during the day.
- Talk about weather and why we have to wear certain types of clothes for different types of weather.