Connect with parents and provide literacy tips for home

This wiki is an example of how to reach out to parents, let them know what their children are learning and provide suggestions for home.

 

Highlights:

  • Publicize your story hour
  • Encourage parents to sign up on the wiki
  • Upload the handouts and materials that you used during story hour so everyone can access them from home
  • Reccomend a few books to borrow from the library

 

Story hour - Countdown to Kindergarten! 

 

Is your child starting kindergarten in the fall? Is he or she scared of what kindergarten will entail? Come to this special story hour on Monday, March 10th, 10:30 am- 11:30 am at Happy Valley Public Library where our special story hour will help your child get ready for Kindergarten. We will be discussing some of the fears associated with going to school, practicing some basic school routines, reading stories about going to school. We will focus our story hour activity on lacing shoes. To register your child for this event, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

Ten days before kindergarten starts, a dark-haired girl wakes up in a panic. "I've heard from a first grader that they have a lot of rules there," she confides, locking eyes with the audience. "You have to know how to tie your shoes. By yourself." Days nine, eight, seven and so on bring various shoelace disasters. The girl tangles the laces around her cat by accident; she drenches them with syrup on purpose. At dinner, her father jokes, "How's your bowl of shoelaces I mean spaghetti?" If all the girl's fears are for naught, at least they provide her with a conversation opener: at kindergarten, she commiserates with one, then two, then three new friends who can't tie their shoes either.

 

 

 

Story hour Schedule:

Warm up

Activity: The Wheels on the Bus Fingerplay

Story: Countdown to Kindergarten by Alison McGhee

Discuss: What are you worried/excited/scared about going to school?

Story: Poems from I Thought I'd Take My Rat to School

Activity: Draw and Tell

Story: First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg

Activity: Lacing bugs, shoe tying, lacing cards

Closing song

 

To Take Home:

 

Activity Guide:

Library Resources on Literacy:

 

 

More books to read:(Check the library catalog to find the books here: 

 

Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come by Nancy Carlson

Welcome to Kindergarten by Anne Rockwell

Kindergarten Rocks! by Katie Davis

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing

When You Go to Kindergarten by James Howe

Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner by Amy Schwartz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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