Story Time Review

Which came first? 

The Chicken or the Egg?

Week two of our Story Time session we devoted to chickens & eggs. This worked out so we could also tie-in Easter eggs and chicks. I read Bumpety Bump by Pat Hutchins, Tillie Lays an Egg by Terry Golson, Stuck in the Mud by Jane Clarke, An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston, Mama Hen's Big Day! by Jill Latter, and Cluck Cluck Who's There? by Caroline Jayne Church.

I used the flannel board and the rhyme Time for Bed Chicks to introduce our topic. We used the egg shakers to create some noise and active play. Then we did a little activity where the children each took a plastic Easter egg from my basket and tried to guess what was inside. We opened them up one by one to see what each contained. There were things like buttons, coins, rocks, and even a miniature shoe.

Finally, we created our own Easter egg to take home. I had precut egg shapes out of construction paper. Each child chose the color that they wanted and decorated the egg with Easter stickers and sequins. We then cut the eggs in half and glued a paper chick inside. Using a brass brad we attached one corner of the egg halves together. When the egg was closed the chick hid inside then when the egg was opened the chick peeped out. This was the first time in a long time that I let the kids loose with the scissors. The results were

mixed. Some of the kids got the idea that we were trying to cut the egg in half like it had cracked open. Other children cut up their chick instead or just cut random chunks of their egg off. Well they had fun and practiced with the scissors anyway so I guess it's all good.

Next week: Horses
Michele Schumann
Children's Librarian

Story Time Review

We started our new session of Story time this week. Our theme for the entire session is farms and farm animals. I introduced the topic with the books: Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, April Foolishness by Teresa Bateman, Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm by Joy Cowley, My Farm Friends by Wendall Minor, Senses on the Farm by Shelly Rotner and Snappy Little Farmyard  Pop-Up Fun by Silver Dolphin Books.

We sang to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus" a song about the animals in the barn. It went something like:
"The cows in the barn go Moo, moo, moo.
 Moo, moo, moo. Moo, moo, moo.
The cows in the barn go moo, moo, moo.
All around the farm!"

We also did this song with pigs, roosters, cats and goats. I pulled some farm animal puppets out and we sang a few rounds of the traditional song Old Macdonald. Just to be silly I added in a few improbable animals like a monkey and a dinosaur. The kids thought that was fun. One child even said, "A dinosaur wouldn't even fit in the barn!" Of course, we had to play the classic game Farmer in the Dell.

We did a guessing activity where I described something that you would find on a farm and they tried to guess what it was. To add a visual element to this activity I purchased a cheap farm set at Walmart and hid the different animals etc. in a paper sack. When they guessed correctly I pulled the item out and set it up in our own little farm scene.

We made some paper plate chickens for our craft. The children were mostly unfamiliar with a cockscomb and waddle so I used the illustration of the chickens in the book My Farm Friends to point out these features.

Next Week: Chickens and Eggs, this will tie in nicely with an Easter Egg craft that I have planned.
Michele Schumann
Children's Librarian

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Ideas for Family History and Genealogy

I have been working on printing my digital pictures using Snapfish. Some of the photos are old family pictures that go back to the 1800's. Some I recognize and know who they are. Some my Father who died two years ago could not tell me who they were. I know it is one of my Grandmothers...from Poland...taken in Canada with her children and their spouses. I Father thought that it was his Grandmother Caroline. She moved to Canada with all her children in the late 1800's. I do not know if her husband stayed in Poland or had died. She is the mother of my Grandfather John.

All I have in the way of photos and family history I have done. My mother had a large box of photos with no labels. Some I know....and some I do not. So I am going to make sure my chilldren know who these people are by labeling the photos or if they are in one of my scrapbooks...by labeling the back of the scrapbook page.

I send all of my photos to Snapfish. I get individual photos and organize them my family name to eventually go into the many pages I have made. When I do all of them I will then make more pages.
One service they have is a collage print. And that is where you can pick photos from your digital photos and create a collage. I love them. Since, I can put them in the front and back page of my scrapbook and make copies of the collage to send to relatives or friends. I made on of Disneyland from last year for someone who came with us and gave it to him. Great ideal!

Sue

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