Transportation

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This week we explored all the types of transportation around us- cars, trains, boats and planes to name a few!

Books
Send It by Don Carter
The Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort
My Truck is Stuck by Kevin Lewis
Sail Away, Little Boat by Janet Buell
The Old Pirate of Central Park by Robert Priest
Freight Train by Donald Crews
The Bus for Us by Suzanne Bloom
Truck by Donald Crews
The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper
Little Bear's Little Boar by Eve Bunting

Songs
Car, Car song (Five Little Monkey, ISBN 978-1563460975)
Row, Row Row Your Boat

Craft
Transportation collage-collect images of transportation, extra puzzle pieces for train tracks, cotton for clouds, or anything you have around the house and let your child create their own idea about transportation.

Hands & Feet

Hands and Feet and I like me! This week we had lots of fun with story time and Pete!

Books
Pete the Cat by James Dean
Hands by Lois Ehlert
I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont

Songs
Pete the Cat (Download your copy at http://tinyurl.com/3tofaaw)

Poems

Touch Game (suit actions to words)
Touch your nose, touch your chin
This is how our game begins.
Touch your eyes, touch your knees,
Now pretend you are going to sneeze.
Touch your hair, touch your ear,
Touch your two red lips right here.
Touch your elbow, make it bend.
Now our little game will end.

Where is Thumbkin?

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Craft
We made "I like me!" crowns. Trace the hands and feet of your child and glue them on the crown. Color or add items that your child loves.

Apples, Apples Everywhere

This week we read a variety of stories about one of our favorite topics- Apples!

Books
The Apple Pie Tree
Farmer Brown's Apple Tree
Six Big Apples
Market Day
Apples and Pumpkins

Our poems this week were enhanced with felt apples.

Five Red Apples
Five red apples in a grocery store (Hold up five fingers)
Bobby bought one, and then there were four.
Four red apples on an apple tree (Hold up four fingers)
Susie ate one and the there were three.
Three red apples. What did Alice do?
Why, she ate one and then there were two.
Two red apples ripening in the sun.
Timmy ate one, and then there was one.
One red apple, and now there was one.
I ate the last one and now there are none.

Two Red Apples
Way up high in the apple tree (reach for the sky)
Two red apples smiled at me. (hold up two fingers)
I shook that tree as hard as I could. (pretend to shake the tree)
Down came the apples (wiggle fingers link from the sky to the ground)
MMMMMM they were good. (rub your tummy)