Today in story hour we had eight children show up. This was the only the second story hour I have ever done (I filled in for Mitzi today). We played for the 15 minutes and put a rainbow sticker on our name tags. The kids got to keep their Rainbow Fish name tags today!
After we got our stickers we talked about the weather. The kids decided it was spring, after some hinting that it wasn't summer yet. They said it was chilly, but not cold, and that it was cloudy outside. Our picture of a cloudy day shows that the sun is peaking behind the clouds. One of the children pointed out to me that the sun wasn't out but we had no other picture.
After the weather we sat down with our Rainbow Fish because the first book we read was
The story was about Rainbow Fish, the most beautiful fish in the ocean because he had all kinds of purple, green, blue, and shiny silver scales. The other fish admired him until he refused to share his scales! Rainbow Fish couldn't understand why no one liked him anymore. He got advice to give all the fish a scale. This would make them happy and make Rainbow Fish happy. Rainbow Fish gave the other fish a scale, they were happy, Rainbow Fish was happy, and they all went off to play together. Sharing is important!
After reading about Rainbow Fish we did a project. The kids got to make rainbows! We did this by having half circles of every color. The kids had to pick out which color was the biggest. After that color was gone they picked the biggest color out of the remaining half circles left. The colors were glued on top of each other to make a rainbow.
After we made our rainbows we read
This story was about three mice who got into jars of paint! One mouse was red, one yellow, and one was blue. The mice climbed out of the jars and the paint dripped off of them into puddles! The red mouse started stepping and dancing in the yellow puddle making the puddle orange! The yellow mouse stepped in the blue puddle to make green. And the blue mouse stepped into the red puddle to make purple! The kids seemed to have fun trying to guess what colors they would make. The mice washed up, painted the walls, but left a white wall so the cat could not see them.
After reading Mouse Paint we played with foam!! We had red (which was actually kind of pink), blue, and yellow foam. We got out little bowls so the children could make their own mouse paint colors. First we did red and yellow to make orange, then yellow and blue to make green, and lastly blue and red to make purple!
One of the children said we needed to do one more so we put ALL the colors together. They made all of the colors after a little bit of stirring but after more stirring turned a green color. The bucket provided for washing up after quickly turned to bubbles as the foam was just mixed up soap. The kids seemed to have a hard time trying to get their hands free of soap!
After the foam we said our goodbyes. This was the last story hour of the spring and the children received goody bags with candy, toys, bubbles, and a book!
We hope you enjoyed story hour and we can't wait to see you all in the fall! We will let you know about the summer library programming also! We have a family movie night coming on the 16th! It's Walking with the Dinosaurs! Be sure to bring the little ones for a show!
