Family Night Week of July 2nd

Happy 233rd birthday America! We wish you many more! Family Night was so patriotic with books like You’re a Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohen and Pippa at the Parade by Karen Roosa!

Don’t forget to bring your family to “Para Los Niños Workshop/For the Children Workshop,” (conducted in English), on July 8th, 2009. This program is a partnership with the Houston Children’s Museum and Target. If you’d like more information follow this link:

http://www.cmhouston.org/losninos/

Toddler Time for the Week of June 29th

Hip, hip hooray for the U.S.A.! We celebrated our country’s birthday this week by reading WOW! America! by Robert Neubecker. This book contains awesome landmarks and symbols of America. After that, we counted some firecrackers, we pretended to march in a parade, sang Happy Birthday America, and created some patriotic hats that we can wear this weekend!

See you next week, and have a safe and fun 4th of July!

Preschool Storytime Week of June 29th

Happy Birthday America!

We enjoyed books having to do with the 4th of July during storytime. Books included:

Hats Off for the 4th of July by Harriet Ziefert

You're A Grand Old Flag by George M. Cohan

Wow! America! by Robert Neubecker

Songs we sang today included the book You're A Grand Old Flag, 5 little Firecrackers, and We are Marching, Marching, Marching and In the Summer It is Hot.


5 little firecrackers standing in a row

1 gets lit and off it goes

It zips up high with a zoom, zoom, zoom

Here it goes with a boom, boom, boom

(then 4, then 3, then 2, then 1 firecracker)

Join us next week: Cowboys & Cowgirls

Preschool Storytime Week of June 22nd

Boy it is getting hot outside! We enjoyed books about the Texas Summer this week in storytime. Books included:

Trout, Trout, Trout: A Fish Chant by April Sayre

Beach Day by Patricia Lakin

Ms. Elizabeth told a string story about a pesky mosquito that disappeared with a clap of her hands!


Songs included "Five little hot dogs frying in a pan..." and "In the Summer it is Hot."

Next week: 4th of July

Preschool Storytime Week of June 15th

This week we celebrated Dads! Books read included Daddy is a Doodlebug by Bruce Degen, My Father, the Dog by Elizabeth Bluemle, and The Daddy Book by Todd Parr. The songs we sang included "Happy Father's Day to You," "Five Little Ducks," and "If You're Happy and You Know It!" Our craft was a special card to give to Dad on Father's Day! Happy Father's Day to all you Dads!

Join us next week for: Beat the Texas Heat

Preschool Storytime Week of June 8th

Cowboys and Cowgirls Need Cows was this week's theme! We started storytime off with the funny tale of The Cow That Laid An Egg by Andy Cutbill. Next we helped a hoarse rooster out with Cock-A-Doodle-Moo by Bernard Most. Storytime ended with Wake Up, Big Barn by Suzanne Chitwood. Songs sung today included our DAISY rendition of "Bingo" - There Was a Farmer Who Had a Cow and Daisy Was Her Name-o and "Down on Grandpa's Farm" sung along with Raffi (from Raffi's Box of Sunshine CD, 2000). We ended storytime with parachute play!

Next Week: Join us as we celebrate Dads!

Toddler Time Week of June 8th

Moo! This week's theme was about cows! We read, Moo Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood, had a blast with the parachute activity! Join us neek week for Father's Day stories.