Red Storytime

Here is the next storytime in my color series. Its all about the color RED!!

·       I sang .Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree

                The kids got so into this song. I shortened it to three monkeys but wished I’d done all five. They were imitating every motion and anticipating the big clap that went along with the Alligator’s snap.

·       I did Willoughby Wallaby Woo so I could learn and sing each of the Children's names.

·       Showed the sign for "Red", What is Red? Who is wearing Red?

·       I went through our flannel board files again and pulled out any red items. I placed them all on the flannel board and had the children tell me what each on was. The kids were SO excited this morning!

·       Read The Red Hen by Rebecca Emberley

·       Sang Bumpin’ Up and Down in my Little Red Wagon

·       Sang Grey Squirrel

·       Flannel Board: Five Red Leaves

·       Sang Mary Had a Little Lamb

·       Read The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood

·       Sang Baa Baa Black Sheep

·       Here I was going to sing Hurry! Hurry! Drive theFire Truck, but the kids were so wild they were all doing that thing, where they are trying to sit on their bottoms, but they can’t actually make their little bottoms touch the floor. Its like they’re mounted on springs! Anyway, I didn’t think that song would be a good idea, since it tends to make a calm and mild group go wild.  We might have had to call a fire truck ourselves. Skipped!

·       Flannel Board: Five Lady Bugs

·       Sang Little Green Frog

·       Next we danced “Tapped” and Marched to some songs on a CD. I had to cut marching short when it became moshing. I faded out the music and had everyone sit back on their bottoms (as best they could manage) so I could tell them what was next. Then I let them go find a seat at the craft tables.

·       Our craft today was a Red collage. I started cutting red things out of magazines, but was only getting red high heel shoes and red purses and lipsticks so I ended up printing lots of red things and cutting those to use for collages. The kids glued the cut-outs to red construction paper.

·       Then it was Playtime!

Things went well today. The kids were wildly energetic, but they loved talking about and identifying all the objects on the flannel board and helping me count.