Shapes Storytime

January 26, 2013Scott Bahlmann

Opening: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Mouse Shapes - Ellen Stoll Walsh

(I was a bit reluctant to include this book, the pictures are on the small side for my group. It worked well enough though!)

Activity: Build-a-bot

(After we saw the mice make things from shapes, we made something too! I had the kids identify each shape as I added it to our creation, and then tell me what we made. They were quite excited during this activity. Then 'Boop'! we pressed the star and turned it on.)

Book: Press Here - Herve Tullet

(And this book was all about pressing the dot (circle)! A great interactive adventure.)

Activity: Shape Matching

(The kids were so good at following the books directions, we decided to do some more direction following. I passed out various colored shaped to the kids, and then held up my copies one at a time, and if they had matching shapes the kids help up theirs too. We matched colors, and then had them returned by shape. The kids had fun with it!)

Book: Perfect Square - Michael Hall

(This was probably the most dryly received. Even so, it worked all right.)

Activity: A House for Rosy
(from the book A House for Birdie by Stuart Murphy)

(The kids were very excited about his one. It was difficult keeping them off the flannel board when a new house appeared, they just Knew which bird was supposed to go in it!)

Rosy does not have a house.

Whenever it rains she gets wet, when the wind blows she gets cold.

So she decided to ask her friends to help her find a house.

On the way they find lots of houses that fit her friends perfectly,

but nothing for Rosy!

Finally, the friends decide to build her a house.

And it fits just right!

Book: It looked Like Spilt Milk - Charles G. Shaw

(Then I mentioned that shapes can look like anything, as long as it goes all the way around. The kids loved yelling out the shapes, my favorite was a little boy who had me turn the page back to the cake to correct me and say 'It's a boat!' )

Activity: Bubbles!