Story time Wednesday! Hooray for Letter L!

 Happy Wednesday! It's time for another story time blog! Today we continued our Alphabet Adventure as we explored many things related to letter L. The books I chose for this story time were Max's Bunny Business by Rosemary Wells, Light or Heavy? A book of opposites, and The Little Red Hen (Makes A Pizza) By Philomen Sturges. Well, the little peanuts were all charged up today. It was not the best a story time has ever gone over. We read two of the three books, did our usual Heidisongs dances and crafted these adorable letter L Lamps. The kids were able to decorate them with markers and stickers. They turned out really cool. See the pictures below to get a look at what we've been up to.

 So to start things off, we use Heidisongs ABC Action song and dance to warm up. Wow. The progress these kids have made since January. When you think that each of these kiddos have only seen this once a week, you have to admire how well they perform the moves and sing the song now. It's always incredible to watch them grow and get better each week. We had a very good sized group today with a few kids returning after some time away from the library. It was great to see them back!


Afterwards, we greet everyone with our song We're all here! (Skip To My Lou)
Here, here, we're all here!
Here, here, we're all here!
Here, here, we're all here!
We're here at story time!

Hello, ___________ How are you?
Hello, ___________ How are you?
Hello, ___________ How are you?
I'm glad you're here today!

I read Max's Bunny Business and had lemonade for the kiddos to drink. I also passed around a lemon for the kids to touch and smell. Young children learn in a tactile fashion, so anything you can do to get their senses involved is nothing but a benefit to them.

After reading Light or Heavy? I put some pictures of things that appeared in the book on the magnet board. The kids helped me sort all the pictures onto a chart that I had drawn up. Heavy and Light are opposite concepts that sometimes we take for granted but for young children, they often need help to gain an awareness of weight.

The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) was cut short due to even shorter attention spans. I read about half of the story when I noticed that not one set of eyes was towards me, so I took a tip I learned from Spring Institute and just closed the book with a "La La La! The End!" Well, this got a chuckle out of the parents in the room. We quickly did our goodbye song and headed over to make our craft.

During the craft, I had pink lemonade for the kids to sample, and they all had a great time making this easy project. All you need are letter Ls cut out of construction paper, printed lampshades cut out ahead of time, glue sticks, markers, and foam stickers.

Thanks for reading! See ya next week!