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 |
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BOOK |
Baby Beluga |
RAFFI |
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BOOK |
Bears At The Beach Counting 10 TO 20 |
NIKI YEKTA |
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BOOK |
The Gulls Of Edmund Fitzgerald |
TRES SEYMOUR |
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BOOK |
In The Ocean: Hide And Seek |
DAWN APPERLEY |
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BOOK |
Listen To The Rain |
BILL MARTIN, JR. AND JOHN ARCHAMBAULT |
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BOOK |
The Maggie B. |
IRENE HAAS |
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BOOK |
Make Way For Dumb Bunnies |
SUE DENIM |
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BOOK |
A Million Fish... More Or Less |
PATRICIA C. MCKISSACK |
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BOOK |
My Visit To The Aquarium |
ALIKI |
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BOOK |
Penguin Pete, Ahoy! |
MARCUS PFISTER |
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BOOK |
Sailaway Home |
BRUCE DEGEN |
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BOOK |
Sailor Cats |
EMILY WHITTLE |
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BOOK |
Say No Little Fish |
CARLA DIJS |
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BOOK |
Sea Animals |
ANGELA ROYSTON |
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BOOK |
Sea Turtles |
GAIL GIBBONS |
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BOOK |
The Seashore: A First Discovery Book |
GALLIMARD JEUNESSE |
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BOOK |
Those Summers |
ALIKI |
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BOOK |
The Whales |
CYNTHIA RYLANT |
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BOOK |
Whales |
THE COUSTEAU SOCIETY |
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BOOK |
What Lives In A Shell? |
KATHLEEN WEIDNER ZOEHFELD |
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BOOK |
What's It's Like To Be A Fish? |
WENDY PFEFFER |
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BOARD BOOK |
Little Toot |
HARDIE GRAMATKY |
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BOARD BOOK |
Moonbear's Canoe |
FRANK ASCH |
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BIG BOOK |
The Magic School Bus On The Ocean Floor |
JOANNA COLE |
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RESOURCE BOOK |
Jim Along, Josie: A Collection Of Folk Songs And Singing Games For Young Children |
NANCY AND JOHN LANGSTAFF |
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BOOK & TAPE |
Father Bear Comes Home |
ELSE MINARICK |
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CASSETTE |
Tom Chapin, Bill Squid |
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VHS |
A Boy, A Dog, And A Frog |
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PUPPET |
Clam Puppet |
Make aquariums out of boxes. Line the inside of the box with torn tissue
paper. Use colors found in the ocean. Paint stones for fish. Hang the stones
with fishing line. If possible glue shells and sand to the bottom of the box.
Play "Shark." Cut posterboard into playing card shapes. On one
card draw a shark. Print the word shark under the picture. On the remaining
cards draw a picture of a fish. Print the word fish under each picture. Sit in
a circle and sing the shark song to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star." While singing this song everyone moves their hands like fish
swimming.
I'm a fish as you can see,
Swimming, swimming, happily.
Side to side and up and down,
Diving deep to look around,
Swimming, swimming, happily,
Hope a shark does not eat me!
Choose a child to be shark. Have the child walk around the inside of the
circle and place a card face down in front of each child. Then the shark says
"yum yum" and rubs his or her tummy. Everyone turns over their card.
The child with the shark card collects all the fish cards and becomes the next
shark.
With your children act out the following counting rhyme:
Three little fish swimming in the water,
Swimming in the water,
Swimming in the water.
Three little fish swimming in the water,
Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble,
SPLASH!
Divide the children into three groups. One the word "splash"
one child in each group falls to the ground. Repeat the rhyme saying "two
little fish" then "three little fish."
The cassette Billy The Squid by Tom Chapin contains many
wonderful songs. The title song, "Billy The Squid" features
fish. The song "Bye Bye Dodo" deals with ecology. Another
great song is "Happy Earth Day."
Ocean Shell
I found a great big shell
(Hold hands cupped as if holding large shell)
Upon the ocean floor.
And held it close up to my ear.
I heard the roaring ocean
I heard it very clear.
It had such pretty colors.
I took it home with me.
And anytime I want to
I hear the raring sea.
I'm a Great Big Whale
I'm a great big whale,
Watch me swim.
Here is my blowhole,
(point to back of head)
Here are my fins.
(wave hands against body)
See my flip my tail as down I go,
(pretend to dive)
Then up I come and "Whoosh!" I blow.
(raise arms above head to form spout)
Ask your local children's librarian about more fingerplays, activities, and
books such as these recommended titles: