In spite of the rather dreary spring morning, four children came to Story Hour. We started with the usual routine and the children could tell me it was Spring and had the weather "spot on" for this morning. We skipped our usual Wiggle Song and went right into a book about real pigs. Bryce brought a cute little, soft, pink pig for us to look at. Thanks for sharing, Bryce!
From this book we learned that pigs can be pink and other colors too. They also have strong snouts [with nostrils] that help them snort and dig. Pigs like mud because it helps keep them cool. If you want to know about pigs' floppy ears and curly tails just look for this book.
Then we went to the craft table to paint our paper plate pig faces. The children are getting quite good at handling a brush and paint, but it was good that we had a tub of soapy water for clean-up! While they dried we learned and sang a pig song to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus", but in this version the "Pigs on the farm go, oink, oink, oink; all the day long". In the following verses they go "Snort, snort, snort" and "Roll in the mud". Everyone seemed to enjoy the song.
Next I read the book Happy Pig Day by Mo Willems.
In the story Pig is
so happy to be celebrating "PIG DAY!", but his friend, Gerald the Elephant, becomes very sad because he is
not a pig and doesn't look like one! You need to check out this cute book to see how the story ends. It was a good book that even tied in to our piggy song, so we ended up singing a verse of that again.
Then we went back to the table and finished putting our pink pigs together. We used lots of cutting and gluing skills this morning, and we had to practice patience as we held things in place while the glue set.
Our guest, Ellie, happily shows off her finished pig [which has the piggy song glued to its backside.
Children's Librarian
Mitzi Manthey
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