Storytime: Letters and Mail

Family storytime for ages 3-8 with craft. All about letters, mail and postmen.  


Books:

Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier



 Hi by Anne Herbert Scott


 
Will Goes to the Post Office by Olaf and Lena Landstrom

Additional Books: 

Here Comes the Mail by Gloria Skurzynski 

Larabee by Kevin Luthardt 

Tortoise Brings the Mail by Dee Lillegard and pictures by Jillian Lund  

Music:
 
 
"Mail Myself to You" from This Land is Your Land by Woody and Arlo Guthrie  


Songs and Fingerplays:

In His Mail Truck 
"She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" 

He'll be coming in his mail truck when he comes,
He'll be coming in his mail truck when he comes,
He'll be coming in his mail truck,
He'll be coming in his mail truck,
He'll be coming in his mail truck when he comes.

he'll be wearing his blue uniform.......
he'll be bringing a package for me......
he'll bring mail for mom and dad.....
he'll pick up letters from our mailbox....

from preschooleducation.com  


Mail Carrier Song 
"My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"

I get to sort the mail,
Then carry it to your home.
The mail comes from all over,
Like New York, Paris or Rome.
Mail, mail, mail, mail.
I love to deliver the mail, mail, mail.
Mail, mail, mail, mail.
I love to deliver the mail.
from preschooleducation.com  

Craft: 

You've Got Mail!

Provide stickers, crayons, etc. and let the kids make cards for themselves. Older kids can practice writing, little ones can have their parents help. Provide envelopes and have parents fill in the address. Send the letters that day or the next. My kids were so excited to have mail of their own in the mailboxes! Good for print motivation and letter awareness.

Storytime: Penguins

Family Storytime for ages 3-8 with craft.


Books:

 
Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and pictures by Lynn Munsinger


 
Penguins, Penguins, Everywhere! by Bob Barner



 
If You Were a Penguin by Wendell and Florence Minor


 
Penguin by Polly Dunbar

Additional Books: 

I Am Pangoo the Penguin by Satomi Ichikawa 

Little Penguin by Patrick Benson 

Where Is Home, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and pictures by Jane Chapman 

 

Songs and Fingerplays



"Doing the Penguin" from Sesame Street: Hot! Hot! Hot! Dance Songs 
 


Two Little Penguins

Two little penguins sitting on the ice.
(Hold up both index fingers)
One bows once, the other bows twice.
(Make index fingers bow)
Waddle little penguins.
Waddle away.
(Put fingers behind back)
Come back penguins.
Time to play.
(Bring fingers to the front)
 

If You're a Penguin, And You Know It
(If You are Happy...)

If you're a penguin and you know it, flap your wings
If you're a penguin and you know it, flap your wings
If you're a penguin and you know it and you really want to show it
If you're a penguin and you know it, flap your wings

Additional verses:
Waddle your feet....
Swim, swim, swim...
Eat a fish, yum, yum, yum
(rub your belly)  



Craft: Hearts Penguin Craft

Storytime: Thanksgiving

Family storytime for ages 3-8 with craft.



Books:


 
Run, Turkey, Run by Diane Mayr and pictures by Laura Rader


 
This Is the Turkey by Abby Levine


 
Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes and pictures by Doris Barrette



'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey

 
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson and pictures by Judy Schachner
 

Songs and Fingerplays:


Here Is the Turkey

Here is the turkey
(fist of one hand)
with his tail spread wide.  
(place fist against outspread palm of other hand)
He sees the farmer coming so he tries to run and hide.  
(lower hands to side of body)
He runs across the barnyard- wobble, wobble, wobble.  
(make hands "wobble")
And he says out loud,
"Gobble, gobble, gobble."


We Eat Turkey
sung to: "Are You Sleeping"
 
We eat turkey.
We eat turkey.
Yum, yum, yum.
Yum, yum, yum.
Always on Thanksgiving.
Always on Thanksgiving.
Oh, so good.
Oh, so good.  

Verses:
We eat mashed potatoes.
We eat squash.
We eat pie.
(What else do the children eat?)  

Craft:

"Bouncing Turkey"
from All New Crafts for Thanksgiving 
by Kathy Ross and pictures by Sharon Lane Holm