(November & December 2012)
Agenda:
Read What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Game: Animal Noises (I made cards using Microsoft Word that had clipart of animals and then typed their names. The kids took turns making the animal sounds while the others gussed.)
Read What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? by Steve Jenkins
Game: Feed the Monkey (My intern and I turned a cardboard box into a monkey with a wide open mouth using tape, construction paper, and contact paper. The kids took turns “feeding the monkey” by tossing oranges (orange bean bags) into the monkey’s mouth.
Craft: Owl & Turtle Paper Bag Puppets (I found them on Tammy Yee’s website and emailed her to obtain permission to use them for my program.)
Activity: Actual Size Active Learning Center (I was inspired by Amanda Ellington’s post on the ALSC Blog. Since I was presenting this program at all four of my branch libraries, I wanted the center to be movable. Using posterboard, gluesticks, information from the National Geographic website, photos from Microsoft Clipart, and text created in Microsoft Word, we created our Active Learning Center.)
Book Display: Titles from the J 500s (all about animals)
Other Books I attempted to Share:
I See a Kookaburra! by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page (This is a great book, but it would be better received by slightly older children and smaller groups so they can get close to see the pictures.)
How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page (Too long for my mixed age group. Would like to use again and only share a few pages)
Living Color by Steve Jenkins (Too long to share in its entirety, but you could pick 1 or 2 colors)