Letter O

Ostensibly, we ostentatiously open the oracle of O!

BOOKS:

We read Do Not Open by Brinton Turkle and Overboard by Sarah Weeks.

Both of these books are wonderful for storytime.  I was a tiny bit worried that Do Not Openwould be a little too scary, but now I think it’s one of those books that helps kids get over scary stuff, like the book from my childhood How to Get Rid of Bad Dreams.

Overboard is short, cute, and fun.  I had almost every kid shouting “OVERBOARD!” with me as each item exited Baby Bunny’s hands.

FLANNELBOARD:  

I found this activity on Ian Falconer’s Olivia website.  It’s an “Olivia’s Things” activity.  I printed out all of Olivia’s things and colored them in.  I hid them around the storytime room and brought my little stuffed Olivia in.  Olivia and I had a talk and she told me that the last time she was here she had left some things in the room and asked if the kids could help find them.  After the storytime kids had found all of Olivia’s stuff, we talked about each of the items.  It was fun.

SONG:

We listened to Biscuits in the Oven by Raffi.  We did some actions to go along with it – we made our hands rise with the biscuits, we jumped and shouted, we stomped our feet, and looked both ways.  This song is super cute.

CRAFT:

I’ve been waiting for this craft for a LOOOOONG time.  We made letter O octopuses with cheerio suckers on their tentacles.  The moms were worried about the kids eating all of their craft supplies, but I didn’t have a problem with it.  I had a big box of Cheerios.