Toddler Time

Mrs. Swan brought her favorite book to read today! She used to read it over and over to her children when they were little.  The Monster at the End of This Book written by Jon Stone is a great book to discuss speech bubbles, large animated print and to draw the children in to help turn the pages!

Music is so much fun!  Look at "J" and "R" keeping the beat to the Christmas music!  We switched up our instruments many times, played them soft & loud, high & low, sitting & moving around the room. These boys have rhythm!

Our final story was The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore. This is another favorite in the Swan family. It's the traditional story but with mice as the characters. 

We do not have any story times set for January!

Continue to watch the Pardeeville Library website!

 

Happy Holidays!

 

PRESCHOOL PAGES

Our book today was, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell! written by Lucille Colandro and Jared Lee

We talked about rhyming words and I tried to get the boys to add in the predictable text.  "J" was very good at adding some of the words.  "B" told me that the lady was 'bad' because she was eating stuff.  We read the original story, I know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly  that our first book was based off of. "J" liked this book and wants to take it home.

"B" liked our music time!  We played instruments to Christmas songs.  We switched up what we played to create different songs.  Our friend, Bob joined our band as well!  "B" didn't think the sandpaper blocks made music. "J" chose to play them for one of our songs. We played loud, quiet and compared sounds.

Our end activity was playing with play dough! The boys (and adults) had fun cutting shapes out of the play dough.  "J" of course liked the dinosaurs. "B" learned how to use cookie cutters and how to roll the play dough into a snake!

We do not have any story times set for January!

Continue to watch the Pardeeville Library website!

Happy Holidays!

Toddler Time

Wednesday, December 9th

"J" and his grandpa were my only friends today. We sang a few Christmas songs (Must be Santa, Rudolph & Jingle Bells).  We used bells and maracas to make music while we sang.  

Our book today was Santa's New Suit by Laura Rader. We talked about the letter s, the color red, emotions by looking at the character's faces and speech bubbles. "J" was very involved in the story!

Playdough fun!!!! We cut out pretend cookies with many different sizes and shapes. "J" even got creative and made a round "dinosaur" with plates on it so T-Rex couldn't eat it.  This boy LOVES dinosaurs!!!  

Mom, this star cookie on the right is for you! (Don't worry Dad, he made one for you too!"


Next week is our last story hour in 2015.Watch the library website for the 2016 dates! 

12/8/2015

Toddler Time

We started our day right at our craft table. "J" and his grandma worked together to add tiny stickers for ornaments and spreading glue with q-tips to shake glitter on. (great fine motor activities).

 Our book today was Christmas Tree by Wendell & Florence Minor.  This book gave us the opportunity to see many different Christmas trees in many different places in the world.

We used the Ipad today to see and sing the old favorite, Oh Christmas Tree. We also had story cards about getting a Christmas tree, to put in order.  "J" listened and watched very intently when I told the story and put them in order. I then mixed them up and "J" correctly put them in order.  With prompting he could tell me what was happening in the story on each card. Fantastic!

Next week is our last story hour of 2015! 

Check the library website for the 2016 dates!