May/June 2021 reading

I enjoy reading at the Beach and this summer has been no exception.  

 

But Not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtis

Marvelous Ms. Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Secret Kingdom, Nek Chand 

April and May Books 2020

Shine by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Realistic Fiction
A story about a middle school girl going to a new school and staying kind in difficult circumstances and all types of people after losing her mother and being separated from her friends.

The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis
Historical Fiction
A story about an 11 year old white sharecropping boy who learns who to be kind in difficult situations after his father dies and he is separated from his mother.

March Forward Girl by Melba Patillo Beals
Autobiography
The true story about the life from age 4 until 18 of a black girl in Little Rock Arkansas who learns to stay kind in very difficult situations.

The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
SciFi
A story about three children who must figure out how to help their mother who has disappeared and learn how their father died years ago. They must work together and remember everything they have learned to succeed.

Serafina's Promise by Ann E. Burg
Historical Fiction. written in Verse
One year in the life of a little girl from Haiti before the 2011 earthquake.  She dreams of being a doctor but the family doesn't have enough money for food let alone school.  She is determined and helpful no matter what but doesn't realize what her dreams cost her family.

Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
The story of a ten year old girl whose family has just moved to New York City from Cuba and she gets into a car accident where her leg is broken so she is in a body cast for the next 8 months and bedridden for almost a year.  You learn about all the other immigrants from other countries that live near her. You learn about her Jewish Grandmother and her move from Russia to Cuba.  It is the story of leaving the past while living the present and hoping for the future and being scared and accepting other people when they are different.

Fairy Program

I did a Fairy Program at the library today.

First I read the wonderful book Come to the Fairies Ball by Jane Yolen.

We made little mushroom houses.

While the top was drying we made Fairy people.

The children that were at the program were in kindergarten/1st grade and they had a little trouble with the fairy people but really enjoyed painting.

The boy and the girls all enjoyed the story.

If I had older children in the program I might have picked one of the rhymes in My Garden of Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker.  And at some point I would love to do a program where I use Jane Yolen's book Fairy Tale Feasts, A literary Cookbook for Young Readers & Eaters.

Color Theme Felt

I am so excited about the felt dog that I did to show with this book! All the dots come off so that I can start the story with only the black spot and then add the other 9 colors as the story progresses! 

The other books I am going to do with this storytime are Where is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox and The Smiley Book of Colors by Ruth Kaiser.

January Story time

January Story time:

For my Hat Storytime tomorrow I am going to have the children do a rubbing with various supplies and then they can glue cotton balls on it.  Last week we did an underwear storytime and used Ms. Sara's idea for the craft and the kids absolutely loved coloring and gluing the cotton balls so I decided to give them another chance to work with those materials.

Sam's Winter Hat by Albert Lamb

Under My Hood I have a Hat  by Karla Kuskin

The Hat by Jan Brett

Extra Hat Books:

Zoe's Hats by Sharon Lane Holm

I want my Hat Back by Jon Klassen

This is not my Hat by Jon Klassen

I have planned a story-time next week about Winter Clothes. How do I come up with a art/craft after doing a hat and a mitten?  I came up with this sweater tissue paper collage and I am happy with the way it turned out.  The one in yellow was the one that I did free hand just to see if it would work and the one on the left is the one that I made a pattern for and cut out carefully.  For the kids I ended up cutting the frame out of black construction paper and for the plastic sleeve I cut up transparencies.

The books I have picked out to read are:

 The Jacket I wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel,

Little Bear's Big Sweater by David Bedford 

Winter is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer.

For the mittens story time there were a lot of ideas on this website and I choose to do the paint idea. I had planned for the kids to color and glue animals onto a big mitten shape but I failed to communicate to the library with the die cut machine that I wanted the big mitten and not the little mitten and so I had to come up with something to do with them.  

We will read:

The Missing Mitten Mystery by Steven Kellogg

One Mitten by Kristine O'Connell George

Missing Mittens by Stuart Murphy

I don't feel compelled to read Jan Brett's Mitten since we aren't doing the craft and because I read her hat book in a recent story time, but I will have it out on display

The Growing Story

Today I found this book.
I didn't know about this book, I've read the Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss and I have the I can book and Farmer Duck at home but the combination of this author and that illustrator was a wonderful discovery.
So wonderful that I decided to name my storytime blog after it.