I was surprised at how few good storytime books there are for the theme! Even looking for ‘alien’ etc.

This underwent considerable revision between the Tuesday and Thursday programs. (Finally, what shape are bubbles? Circles! And the kids had a grand time playing in them.)īirds Colors Friends Robots Shapes Storytime 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!’ ) (Then I mentioned that shapes can look like anything, as long as it goes all the way around. 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!)īook: It looked Like Spilt Milk – Charles G. (The kids were very excited about his one. On the way they find lots of houses that fit her friends perfectly,įinally, the friends decide to build her a house. So she decided to ask her friends to help her find a house. Whenever it rains she gets wet, when the wind blows she gets cold.

Even so, it worked all right.)Īctivity: A House for Rosy (from the book A House for Birdie by Stuart Murphy) (This was probably the most dryly received. We matched colors, and then had them returned by shape. 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. (And this book was all about pressing the dot (circle)! A great interactive adventure.)Īctivity: Shape Matching (The kids were so good at following the books directions, we decided to do some more direction following.

Then ‘Boop’! we pressed the star and turned it on.) They were quite excited during this activity. (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. (I was a bit reluctant to include this book, the pictures are on the small side for my group.

Robot Zot! by David Shannon