2019 Bath Time

This was fun and funny times with kindergarten.

Mystery Bag: a rubber ducky (many but not all kids figured it out when it squeaked.  We took some time to explain why we guessed what we did- the specific shape of the duck bill helped.)

Word of the Week:   English: rubber duck
                                  Spanish: pato (or patito) de goma
                                 ASL:  make sign for letter R near your mouth then the symbol for duck.
                                  http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/d/duck.htm

Songs:  
               Sesame Street’s Rubber Duckie (classic!) & you can find it in Spanish online, too.
              “(Wash your) Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” is another fun one.
              Branch out with 5 Little Ducks!

The poem Take Me Out of the Bathtub by Alan Katz (from the book of the same title published.by Scholastic, 2001)  was a winner!

Books: Splish, Splash Animal Baths (April Sayre, Mill Brook Press, 2000.) is a great non-fiction picture book to get kids thinking.  Also try:

      Pigeon needs a bath                    Scrub a dub Nancy van Laan
      King Bidgood's in the bathtub.      Kid tea
      Taking a bath with the dog

Crafts:  bubble painting

Blowing bubbles is always great if the weathers fair.


                               

2019 Airplanes

Welcome Song:  (Sung to London Bridge is Falling Down)

Welcome to the library, library, library. 

Welcome to the library; please come inside and read. 

Finger Play: 5 Little Peas

5 little peas in a pea-pod pressed (fist)

One grew, two grew, and so did the rest (raise fingers)

They grew and grew and did not stop (cup hands, start expanding)

Until one day, they all went POP! (clap hands, throw out arms)

Set Library Behavioral Expectations: (reinforce / commend examples )
                   4-Finger Rule of the Library

                                                           

Word of the Week:  

                                                               i.      English: AIRPLANE Say it, syllabicate it, spell it in the air.

                                                             ii.      Spanish: AVIÓN (av-YON)

                                                            iii.       ASL (American Sign Language.)  Sign language is a real language where people use their hands to communicate.  Here is the sign for airplane.  Take your right hand and make the letter Y (3 and 4 finger down, other 3 up.)   Now pretend your hand is an airplane and poke the sky twice, once for each syllable.  http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi

     Pre-Reading   What flies in the sky?  (Birds, airplanes, hot air balloons, helicopters…)  Have you ever been on an airplane?  Where did you go?  Who drives an airplane? (Pilot)  Where did you go to get on the airplane?  (Airport)  Have pictures ready.  Today we are going to read and learn about airplanes and flying.  First, we’ll watch a video about what it’s like to fly.  Then, we’ll read a book about airplanes and do some rhymes. Finally, we’ll do a little coloring and check out books before you go back to class.

Books:     First Flight by David McPhail

                Flying Donald Crews

    Going on an Airplane

    The Little Airplane by Lois Lenski

                Mighty Machines: Airplanes

                Plane Ride by Pamela Walker

     Action Rhyme: The Airplane

The airplane has great big wings (arms outstretched)

Its propeller spins around and sings (zzzzzz, spin one arm)

The airplane goes up (lift arms)

The airplane goes down (lower arms)

The airplane flies high (turn body around)

All over the town! (spin, fly, land.)

     Jokes:  What did the ocean say to the airplane?  Nothing, it just waved.

POEM 
      Here's one :  http://kingpoetry.com/jetplane.htm airplane poem

                             
                               Listen for rhyme and story on “Jet Plane”  http://kingpoetry.com/jetplane.htm

I'm a jet plane, up so high,

See me take off, wave goodbye;

Jetting to some far-off site,

Fly by day and fly by night.

See the Captain, there's the crew,

Making sure it's safe for you;

Buckle up, no smoking, please...

Fly you home or overseas.

Taxi down the airport road,

Calculate the fuel and load;

Slow right down and join the queue,

Other planes are flying, too.

Finally, our turn has come,

Hear my big jet engines hum;

Runway racing, speeding past,

Lift so smoothly, off at last.

Thank me when our flight's at end,

Once again I've been a friend;

Jet plane up above so high,

Spread my wings and watch me fly.

4Videos:  On Discovery Streaming, Reading Rainbow Airplanes has some good content as does Sid the Science Kid Flying.


    Extension Activity Color the jet liners @ (http://www.craigsync.net/703/airplane-coloring-pages.html/airplane-coloring-pages-for-boys)

Fingerplay: This is the Tower:   This is the Tower, This is the Plane, This is the Pilot, This is the Rain.  Pilot to tower, Tower to Plane, Come in for a Landing, but Look Out for the Rain.

2019 Library

Our back-to-school story time was a very basic introduction to the routines of the library.  

Lots of your students have never been to or seen a library! 

Welcome Song:
 Welcome to the library, library, library. 
 Welcome to the library, please come inside and read. (to the tune of London Bridge)

Finger Play:  This is Big (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZOxpgmJVE)

Word of the Week:
  Library
  Biblioteca
  ASL https://www.handspeak.com/word/search/index.php?id=2974

Books:  
  The Pigeon Has to Go to School! by Mo Willems
  We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan Higgins
  
I brought my guitar to start teaching students the songs we sing (classic children's and camp songs, as well as some old folk and pop!)  Repetition helps build confidence!

We took pictures of our students for their library cards (believe me, some of them don't recognize their names so the picture greatly helps them... and it helps us to learn names faster!) and colored some favorite coloring pages while listening to music on the radio.

Looks like this is going to be a great year!

2019 Dinosaurs

Word of the Week:
Dinosaur
Dinosaurio
ASL Sign Language: https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/d/dinosaur.htm


So many good dinosaur books out there:
*Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems
There's a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor by Wade Bradford
Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
Dino Bites by Algy Craig Hall (A GREAT combination with the next book)
*We Don't Eat Our Classmates (Paul Higgins)
The "How Do Dinosaurs" series by Jane Yolen
...and of course all the non-fiction dino books you can find!


Video:
Storybots T Rex Dinosaur Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZzPLdAWKOE

Dinosaur Jokes for kids: https://funkidsjokes.com/dinosaur-jokes-for-kids/

We didn't have time for a craft because we were teaching how to look for books and check out: we played the music video and kids just filed over to watch it when they'd checked out.

Police Story Time

Word of the Week: POLICE
Spanish: Policia (Po-lee-CEE-ah)
Sign Language:  http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/p/police.htm

First, we did a song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Md4XJOJ6A

Then, a non-fiction PebbleGo about what the career of policeman is:

John Lithgow reads aloud (with music and sound effects!) the 1996 Caldecott winning book Officer Buckle & Gloria by Peggy Rathman (GP Putman, 1995)

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=32796&CategoryID=1901

I Am A Policeman (tune: "I'm A Little Teapot" )

I am a policeman, with my star.
I help people near and far.
If you have a problem, call on me.
And I will be there, 1, 2, 3!

https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/transportation-coloring-police-car/