attendance: 24 kids + 17 adults
Valley View School from outside DG came to the library today. They took busses and train (“It was a BIG train!”) to get here. I didn’t really have a theme, just winter inspired.
Miss Mouse was happy to have them visit. She asked lots of questions to figure out how they came to the library. We discovered it was a BIG train.
Finger play #1: Clap, Clap your lap
Book 1:Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Flannel: Whose House? different “houses” (barn, nest, hole, aquarium) and different animals. Match the animal to the house. The pig doesn’t go in the aquarium…
Song: Silly Dance Contest by Jim Gill
Prop Story: The Mitten. We have a large (3′) mitten with a velcro side to make this a prop story.
Song 2: Jingle Bells by Raffi. (It goes on a little too long.)
Fingerplay 2: roll roll sugar babies (and sugar cookies, munch munch munch extended it because it was potty time. and they kept taking kids out .. took too long)
Book 2: Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas
Book 3: Here Comes the Big Mean Dust Bunny by Jan Thomas. These are so funny. I hadn’t intended to do both, but the en masse potty break really threw me off.
Flannel: Must be Santa by Raffi. I took the different elements of the song: beard, starry night, etc, and we slowly build the song up. Each time the different elements are mentioned I point to them.
Goodbye Song: My Hands Say Thank You
