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.