Letter Q

Letter Q in the HOUSE!

BOOKS: 

We read Mooshka: A Quilt Story by Julie Paschkis and The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle.

I enjoyed Mooshka; it has such a nice story and the illustrations are gorgeous.  Growing up in North Dakota, it's so common to have Grandma's quilt at home or being happy to use Grandma's quilt while you're at Grandma's.  That might be why this appealed to me.  The Very Quiet Cricket is nice, but it's not my favorite of Carle's stories.  We were able to talk about time while reading through this book and talked about how the day changed in the illustrations as we read through.

FINGERPLAY:

We did "Six Little Ducks" which is both a fingerplay and a song - double whammie!

Six little ducks that I once knew
Fat ones, skinny ones, tall ones too,
But the one little duck with the feather on his back
He led the others with a "Quack, quack, quack!"
"Quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack!"
He led the others with a "Quack, quack quack!"

Storytime Katie has another verse that I didn't know:

Down to the water they did go
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble to and fro
Home from the water they did come
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble, ho-hum-hum!

SONG:

We listened to "The Question Song" from Sesame Street.  

This is a fun song to listen to (and watch for that matter), but it wasn't as powerful in storytime as it could have been.  If I had used my brain a little better, I would have paused it after the narrator asked her question and I could poll the audience.

CRAFT:

Our craft was a quilted Q.  We had made quilts before using little squares of construction paper for our blankies storytime and I had some leftover.  I printed off Uppercase Qs on construction paper and we glued in our squares.  Some Qs were all one color and some were a plethora of colors.  Here's mine.