Our Bodies: Feet Story Time: November 25-26, 2019

Books:
Dancing Feet by Lindsay Craig
Dog in Boots by Greg Gormley *
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle *
This Little Piggy by Tim Harrington
Who Has These Feet? by Laura Hulbert *

Craft: Dog in Boots
Children colored a dog cutout and four boot cutouts before gluing the boots to the dog's legs.

Extension Activities:
- Ask your child what kind of footwear should be worn for different situations.  (i.e. sneakers for playing, boots for snow, sandals for summer)
- Make some footprint art.  Trace around your child's foot and then see what kind of object they can make out of it.  For inspiration, search for "footprint art" in Google Images or Bing Images.


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Our Bodies: Bottoms Story Time: November 18-19, 2019

Books:
Chicken Butt by Erica Perl
Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black
Parts by Tedd Arnold *
We've All Got Bellybuttons by Bill Martin Jr. *

Craft: Person Puzzle
Children were given a large gingerbread man cutout in pieces.  They glued the pieces onto a piece a paper reassembling into a person.  They then colored the person.


Extension Activities:
- Ask your child what movements different body parts can do.  (i.e. toes can wiggle, fingers can snap, arms can stretch, etc.).
- Chicken Cheeks gives synonyms for "derriere".  Ask your child if they can come up with synonyms for other body parts.  (i.e. toes = piggies)

Our Bodies: Head Story Time: November 4-5, 2019

Books:
A Boy and His Bunny by Sean Bryan
Cowlick! by Christin Ditchfield *
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
Ocean Animals from Head to Tail by Stacey Roderick *
There Is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems *

Craft: Bird
This week's craft was based on the picture at left.  The children colored a beak, two eyes, and two wings cut out from cardstock before gluing them to a plastic cup.  (We did not add the feather at top or the "belly".)

Extension Activities:
- This is the first week of our "body" story times.  Ask your child to point to their body part as you list them off.  Get creative and list unusual body parts (i.e. pinkie finger, eyelash, ankle, etc.).
- After making the craft (cup bird), see if your child can balance it on their head.  It requires stillness to do it.

Halloween Story Time: October 28-29, 2019

Books:
Click, Clack, Boo! by Doreen Cronin *
The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey
Jungle Halloween by Maryann Cocca-Leffler *
Six Creepy Sheep by Judith Ross Enderle
Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage *

Craft: Vampire Treat Bag
This week's craft was loosely based on the picture at left.  The kids colored cutout hair, eyes, and bowtie before gluing to a paper bag.  They then drew on a mouth and fangs to complete their vampire.

Extension Activities:
- Go over safety tips before going trick or treating including wearing glow-in-the-dark at night to be seen, stranger safety tips, etc.
- Several of this week's books include counting as part of the story.  Practice counting with the treats received on Halloween.  Have your child separate the treats into the different kinds of food and then count them.

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Pumpkin Story Time: October 21-22, 2019

Books:
Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach *
Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch by Mary Peterson
Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin by Mary Serfozo *
Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas *

Craft: Paper Plate Pumpkins
The kids were given a paper plate.  They drew a jack-o-lantern face in the center of the plate.  Orange squares of paper were glued around the edge of the plate.


Extension Activities:
- Visit a pumpkin patch.  Ask your child to describe the various pumpkins as they are in Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin.  (i.e. large, squat, sumptuous, etc)
- Decorate a pumpkin.  If your child is too young to carve the pumpkin, use finger paints or Sharpie markers.