Letter G

Gregariously, we gallop across the grass toward G, the glamorous gal galivanting through this week’s storytime.  I never get sick of alliteration.

BOOKS:

We read The Three Billy Goats Fluff by Rachael Mortimer and Look Out, Suzy Goose by Petr Horacek.

Both of these books were AWESOME.  I love the twist on the three billy goats gruff.  The goats worked to help the ogre, not trick him and everyone ended up happy. Look Out, Suzy Goose was super cute.  The kids helped me make the noises for each creature, especially Suzy.

FINGERPLAY:

I borrowed “The Little Black Gorilla” from Miss Anna Presents  It’s a cute rhyme and I made up mediocre actions for it.

A little black gorilla went up the banana tree  (swing arms like a gorilla)
When he reached the top, he was stung by a bee! (climb up tree and hold knee at the end)
Down came gorilla with a stinger in his knee (climb down tree)
And the little black gorilla cried,
“Mama, please help me!” (waa waa gesture)

It was really hard to actually differentiate between climbing up the tree and climbing down the tree, but oh well.  I’ll work on it (and maybe the rhyme too)

SONG:

I am a major sucker for all Laurie Berkner songs.  So I had to use “Here are My Glasses” for this storytime.  Here’s a cute video with the actions that we use in the song.

CRAFT:

For our craft this week, we made GUMBALL MACHINES! Most of the pieces were construction paper, except for the gumballs.  I found these rad shiny round color coding labels that were in bright gumbally colors at Office Max.  Perfect gumballs.  And stickers!  DOUBLE PLUS GOOD.  Everyone loves stickers.