Letter C

Cheerfully, I chose the character C for recounting comedic and cliffhanging chronicles.  Letter C was our theme for the week and we celebrated it to its fullest!

BOOKS: 

We read Mrs. Armitage, Queen of the Road by Quentin Blake and Clip-Clop by Nicola Smee.

Both of these went over well.  I personally like Mrs. Armitage better, but they both lend themselves well to dialogic reading.  They really are on opposite ends of what I use for storytime.  Mrs. Armitage, Queen of the Road is longer, has more difficult vocabulary and requires an ability to decode.  Clip-Clop is much simpler – the words are small and not really any new or specialized vocabulary, the pictures are simple and enhance the story rather than tell part of it.  It’s neat to see how the kids react to both choices. Good choices on my part, if I do say so myself.

FINGERPLAY:

I found “Drive, Drive, Drive” on Miss Anna presents and knew I HAD to use it.  It’s sung to the tune of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.”

Drive, drive, drive your car
All around the town.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Up the hills and down.

Turn, turn, turn the key,
Make the engine roar.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Let’s go to the store.

Press, press, press the pedal,
Give the engine gas,
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Now we’re going fast!

Turn, turn, turn the wheel.
That is how we steer.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Make a turn right here.

Push, push, push the brake,
Make the car slow down.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Now we are in town!

There are some fun actions in here for kids to do with you – turn the wheel, pressing the pedal, turning the key.  Made me pretty joyful to sing it.  :D

SONG: 

What kind of letter C storytime would leave out “C is for Cookie?”  Not this one!

CRAFT:

We made a cat from the letter C!  I don’t love this one as much as I like the alligator A and the BumbleB, but it works.

I made my first two cat crafts upside down.  OH WELL.  We used cotton balls and clothespins to paint on our cat spots – fairly clean and easy to deal with at the end – toss the cotton ball and reuse the clothespin.