This Reading Adventure Treasure Chest Kit has been assembled to provide a
thematic list of storytime materials for use by enhanced members and their
patrons. The kit is geared toward the preschool age group yet is flexible
enough to capture the interest of toddlers and early school age children.
The Activity
Ideas are designed to
be aids to use the materials listed in the kits.
If you would like more information concerning this project, contact SERLS via
e-mail at dirserls@oplin.org.
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Material Type |
Title |
Author |
|
BOOK |
Avocado Baby |
JOHN BURNINGHAM |
|
BOOK |
Blueberries For Sal |
ROBERT McCLOSKEY |
|
BOOK |
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs |
JUDITH BARRETT |
|
BOOK |
Don't Forget The Bacon! |
PAT HUTCHINS |
|
BOOK |
Eating Fractions |
BRUCE McMILLAN |
|
BOOK |
Feast For 10 |
CATHRYN FALWELL |
|
BOOK |
The Giant Jam Sandwich |
JOHN VERNON LORD |
|
BOOK |
The Gingerbread Man |
ERIC A. KIMMEL |
|
BOOK |
If You Give A Moose A Muffin |
LAURA JOFFE NUMEROFF |
|
BOOK |
In The Diner |
CHRISTINE LOOMIS |
|
BOOK |
The Little Red Hen |
BYRON BARTON |
|
BOOK |
Lunch |
DENISE FLEMING |
|
BOOK |
Pancakes For Breakfast |
TOMIE DE PAOLA |
|
BOOK |
Picnic |
EMILY ARNOLD MCCULLY |
|
BOOK |
The Pigs' Picnic |
KEIKO KASZA |
|
BOOK |
Potluck |
ANNE SHELBY |
|
BOOK |
Pots And Pans |
ANNE ROCKWELL |
|
BOOK |
Stone Soup |
ANN McGOVERN |
|
BOOK |
Strega Nona |
TOMIE DE PAOLA |
|
BOOK |
Today Is Monday |
ERIC CARLE |
|
BOARD BOOK |
Treasure Hunt Things To Eat |
|
|
BIG BOOK |
Peanut Butter And Jelly |
NADINE BERNARD WESTCOTT |
|
RESOURCE BOOK |
Move Over, Mother Goose! |
RUTH I. DOWELL |
|
BOOK & TAPE |
The Case Of The Hungry Stranger |
CROSBY BONSALL |
|
CASSETTE |
Peanut Butter Pie |
TOM PAXTON |
|
VHS |
Picnic |
|
|
PUPPET |
Red Hen Puppet |
View the VHS Picnic. Then have a picnic on your classroom floor
or outside on a nice day.
After reading Little Red Hen discuss how bread is made. Have
children help you to make a loaf of quick rising bread.
Bring in blueberries and a pail. Before reading Blueberries For Sal,
pass out the blueberries. While reading the story have the children drop their
berries into the pail when you say "ker-plunk." Let children have
some fun estimating. Fill a pail with marbles and have children pretend that
they are the blueberries picked by Sal and her mother. Have children guess how
many marbles are in the pail. Record children's individual estimates. Then have
children count the marbles to see which class member made the closest estimate.
Go to your local library and investigate the many children's recipe
books available such as My First Cookbook by Angela Wilkes. Try some of
these recipes with the children. While the food is cooking have the children
color and decorate paper place mats for their meal.
For a lively storytime, read children the big book Peanut Butter And
Jelly. Then teach children the accompanying hand motions, claps, and knee
slaps, suggested on the book's last page. Celebrate by serving -- you guessed
it -- peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Here's a Cup
of Tea
Here's a cup, and here's a cup,
(Make fist of left hand, then right hand)
And here's a pot of tea;
(Add sprout to right hand by protruding thumb)
Pour a cup, and pour a cup,
(Pour into left and then right)
And have a cup with me!
(Extend cup to neighbor and pretend to be drinking)
Five Red Apples
Five red apples hanging in a tree,
The juiciest apples you ever did see.
The wind came by and gave an angry frown,
And one little apple came tumbling down.
The Hot Dog Song
Sung to the tune of "I'm a Little Tea Pot"
I'm a little hot dog
(Hands out, palms up)
On a bun.
Squirt on the mustard,
(Right hand squeezing)
Oooo! That's fun!
(Shiver all over)
Pour on the ketchup,
(Pour with left hand)
Pickles too,
(Wave fingers of both hands)
Now you know
Just what to do
(Bow)
BITE IN!
Ask your local children's librarian about more fingerplays, activities and books such as these recommended titles: