Being Sick :(

Being sick is the pits.  And so much illness seems to go around in the winter time that this seemed like an appropriate theme for this week’s storytime.  Most kids have been sick before (and they like to talk about it – throwing up, pooping, etc.) and they can relate.

BOOKS:

We read Doctor Ted by Andrea Beaty and Bear Feels Sick by Karma Wilson

Bear Feels Sick is awesome – it rhymes, it’s relatable, you can do voices.  All of my favorite parts of a good storytime story.  Doctor Ted is a quite hilarious book – but it’s more for older kids.  Young kids don’t understand that what Ted is saying is nonsense – adults do and they laugh, but not so much preschoolers and toddlers.  I will use a different book if I do this one again.

SONG:

We sang a handwashing song that I had originally seen on Miss Michelle’s blog.  She says that she found the song in Songs and Games for Fours by Jean Warren, and the song is attributed to Betty Silkunas.  The song mentions washing on the left and on the right so we talked about which hand was which before we sang the song – and I, OF COURSE, forgot the first day to use my opposite hand, but remembered today.  So I washed up on my right while they washed up on their left.  :D

“I soap up on the left.
I soap up on the right.
I rub and scrub and wash my hands;
The dirt goes out of sight!

“I rinse off on the left.
I rinse off on the right.
I rinse and rinse and rinse my hands;
The dirt goes out of sight!”

CRAFT:

I also R&Ded this craft (Ripped Off and Duplicated).  Much thanks to Storytime Katie for the craft idea.  We made butterflies out of butterfly shaped construction paper and bandaids.  The kids then spent the rest of their craft time decorating and coloring their butterflies and their “sky.”  It’s hard to think of a craft for being sick – but another one that just came to mind would be to create a face and put little red circle stickers on it – like chicken pox.  Kids LOVE stickers.