Letter H

Letter H storytime is a hippy happy hoppy holiday!  The alphabet saga continues!

BOOKS:

There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems and Hipps Go Berserk! by Sandra Boynton.  TWO OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS!

There is a Bird On Your Head didn’t work as well for storytime as I thought it would.  It might be the repetition (good for easy readers, not so much for storytime) or the fact that it reads so fast or the fact that I don’t have good separate Elephant and Piggie voices yet.  Hippos Go Berserkwas fabulous though.  I love Sandra Boynton.

ACTION SONG:

We sang Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes and touched all of our body parts.  We had to do this one twice – once at normal speed and once at super duper fast speed!

SONG:

We listened to one of my favorite childhood songs: “Hop Up My Ladies!” sung by Elizabeth Mitchell.  I couldn’t find a good video of this, but here’s a link to the Smithsonian Folkways sitewith a sample of it.  I highly highly highly recommend the Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower album called Blue Clouds.

CRAFT:

I was inspired by Storytime Katie’s Letter H craft so we also made houses out of the letter H and a triangle roof.  I used whatever extra bright colors I had laying around – green, fuschia and gold and we filled in with crayons.  Here’s my house from my second storytime!