Letter K

Letter K was a surprisingly easy storytime to plan, but not an easy letter to alliterate.  So, without further ado…….THE LETTER K!

BOOKS:

We read Katie Loves the Kittens by John Himmelman and I Love You Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark.

I Love You Blue Kangaroo wasn’t my favorite book for this letter, but it worked and we were able to talk about sharing and about why Blue Kangaroo wasn’t feeling good.  Katie Loves the Kittens though was adorable.  The pictures are fabulous (I looooooove those little kittens) and the story lends itself well to dialogic reading and textual predictions.

PUPPET PLAY:

I made a little kite puppet to do the action rhyme My Kite, borrowed from Miss Anna presents.

My Kite (can be sung to the tune of “The Farmer in the Dell” if you so desire)

My kite is up so high,
My kite is up so high,
Oh my, just watch it fly,
My kite is up so high

My kite is falling down,
My kite is falling down,
Oh no, it’s down so low,
My kite is falling down

The wind has caught my kite,
The wind has caught my kite,
What fun, I’m on the run,
The wind has caught my kite

I saw another post where the storytime lady had made little paper kites on popsicle sticks for all of the storytime participants, so they could follow along.  I would have loved to do this with this rhyme, but I ran out of time.

SONG:

I whipped out my ukulele for the song for this week.  I found some ukulele chords for the famous Australian nursery rhyme “Kookaburra” and away we went.  A few of the moms knew the words and could sing along with me, but for the most part it was a listening type of song.

CRAFT:

We made kangaroos with pocket joeys.  Really, this craft was TOO easy.  If I were to do this again, I would put the kangaroos on white paper and have the kids color them before we glued the pocket on.  Otherwise the kids glued on the pocket and were done.  Too easy.  But still cute.