>Gung Hay Fat Choy!

>It’s the Year of the Tiger and we celebrated by reading books with a Chinese theme!

During Sleepytime Tales and Preschool Storytime we read:
Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong
Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel
The Pet Dragon by Christoph Niemann
Someone Says by Carole Lexa Schaefer

Since we are learning signs we signed Happy New Year, China and the song The More We Get Together (this courtesy of Amy Burns)

For our craft we created Chinese laterns

-r

>Join the Shellibration!

>For the second year we invited people to join us for a “Shellibration” to celebrate National Poetry Month. This year our celebration took place in April and we shared our favorite Shel Silverstein (and other favorite authors) poems as well as other activities to encourage an exploration of poetry.

An ongoing way we celebrate poetry is with our Poem-tree. Visitors to the Family Room can add a leaf with their favorite verses.

During Book Bunch we celebrated with flashlight poems. Using an idea from the Crayola web site, participants wrote poems and they were then displayed in the Family Room.

The direct link is here:
http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/flashlight-poems-lesson-plan/

Please visit our Facebook page for more photos from the event:

For the Shellibration we read our favorite Shel Silverstein (or other author’s) poems.
Afterwards we created moveable poetry. Moveable poetry is like magnetic but we used construction paper and not magnets. The idea also came from Crayola and can be accessed here:
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/crayola-poetry-coloring-page/

The picture shown is a word file we

created with sight words for our moveable pieces.

Enjoy!
-r