What is That Big Yellow Thing in the Sky?

Monday was such a rainy, stormy day that I wasn’t sure anyone would brave the weather and today was so sunny and nice that I wasn’t sure anyone would want to be inside. Yet, both days we had full story times! It was terrific!

We read several Eric Carle stories. His books are easily recognizable because of the bright, colorful, geometric illustrations. His books can be used to teach colors, numbers, animal names, animal sounds, and much more. Some even contain additional information about the animals mentioned in the stories.

You can find a lot of information about him and his books as well as a newsletter and some activities at this official website:                    www.eric-carle.com .

Below are listed the stories and songs/fingerplays we did this week.

See you next week!

The Mixed Up Chameleon

“Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” said the Sloth

The Very Lonely Firefly

The Very Busy Spider

Fingerplays:

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.

Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.

Up came the sun, and dried up all the rain,

and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.

Song:

“If You Are Happy and You Know It”