Letter I

Impatiently, I ignite my imagination for the letter I.

BOOKS:

We read I Love Bugs by Emma Dodd and From Cow to Ice Cream by Bertram T. Knight.

From Cow to Ice Cream was a little over the kids’ heads.  I wish we had had a better book about ice cream, but I just couldn’t find one.  I Love Bugs was fantastic though.  Before I started reading, I talked about insects and that most bugs are insects and insects starts with I.  Emma Dodd can do no wrong in my book.

FLANNELBOARD:

For my flannel, I borrowed Ice Cream Colors from Storytime Katie.

The rhyme goes:
We have ice cream, the best in town
Let us begin with chocolate brown.
Now let us scoop up some bubble-gum pink,
It is sweet and yummy, the best, some think.
Here is ice cream minty and green,
It is the creamiest I’ve ever seen.
Yellow ice cream is lemony and tart.
We like its taste from the very start.
Scoops of blueberry would make my day,
Look at all this ice cream, hip hip hooray!
Red ice cream is a strawberry delight,
All these scoops are a magnificent sight.
Vanilla white is a popular flavor.
It tastes very good to an ice-cream craver.
Purple ice cream really gives me a kick,
Good and yummy til the very last lick.
Ice cream, ice cream, what a cool sensation.
We love ice cream in any combination!

And here are my flannels:

As you can probably see, I forgot to make a pink scoop, so we just skipped that part.

SONG:

We listened to “I Love a Parade” sung by Bob Keeshan (AKA Captain Kangaroo).  I couldn’t find a video of the version I used, but I did find this one from the Lawrence Welk show.  I think it’s doubly appropriate since I have been compared many times to Lawrence Welk by one of our elderly city council members.

CRAFT:

We made iguanas out of the letter I.  Our color sheets also had iguanas on them and all of the boys in storytime just had a blast coloring the iguanas and telling me all about them, whether or not they were deadly or poisonous or why they were different colors.