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toddler time: hold your horses 2018
Mystery Box: Inside our mystery box, we found two HORSES! What does a horse say?
(Cute clipart horses from one of my favorite sites: sweetclipart.com)
Puppet Song: Two Nice Horses
Two nice horses came to town
One was grey
& one was brown.
They galloped UP
They galloped DOWN
Then they galloped out of town.
Bye horses!
Felt Board: 5 Pretty Horses
when i am choosing a rhyme for my flannel board, i usually scour the internet for hours in search of the perfect one. sometimes tho, nothing feels right & you just have to write it yourself.
i wrote up a horse version of the ever popular "Down On the Corner at the Bakery Shop..." I love this bc you can really adapt it to any theme and i feel like the words are sometimes better if they are my own. so i guess what i'm trying to say is sometimes you have to tweak rhymes & songs until they feel right. there is nothing worse than getting up in front of a group with a rhyme or song that you don't like or feel uncomfortable with.
5 pretty horses waiting by the barn (show 5 fingers)
Giving free pony rides down at the farm!
CHILD'S NAME sees a horse that he/she’d like to try
He/she hops right on & away they ride!
Clip Clop, Clip Clop….
Count down 4,3,2,1,0
Wow, that was fun! We’ll have to come back next time for more pony rides!
I found this clipart on Etsy. i'm in love with these horses, they are so pretty! had felt ones i made ages ago but these were just better.
i love sneaking the kids names into my rhymes if i can, it's a great attention grabber & a nice reward for the kids who are already engaged.
Books We Read:
Giddy Up! Let’s Ride- McDonnell
i usually use this story with babies so they can bounce along but i loved all the different kinds of horses depicted here so i really wanted to use it with toddlers today. Large pages with lots of colorful illustrations are perfect for large groups like mine.
i found a drum & some different bells to make fun sound effects for a few of the pages, like the knight, the drummer & the princess.
i hid the musical instruments in my basket so they wouldn't distract the kids! it was super fun & more mysterious this way.
Craft: Paper Plate Rocking Horses
my "go to" craft for this theme! just printed the rocking horses for kids to color. they decorated with sparkly star stickers & glued to small paper plates so it would rock back & forth. i've discovered you can pretty much glue anything to a folded paper plate & it will rock like this!
i wore my favorite plaid flannel shirt, blue jeans & boots for this theme & people noticed my "country" clothes. coordinating your work attire with your storytime theme isn't always possible but i like to try it if i can.
(on the flip side, i do worry i'm taking my themes a little too far when i do this LOL!)
one of my toddlers yelled out in between songs, "Ms Amy, why are you wearing a bandaid on your finger?" don't kids just notice EVERYTHING?!! so i told everyone that my cat bit me last night which got some laughs. the same little girl returned to the front of the room midway thru the Let's Ride book and said "Ms Amy, i was talking to my mom when you started reading this book. can you go back to the beginning & start it again?" it was so sweet, i wanted to say yes but instead we planned to looked at the story again during playtime so a good compromise!
a nice day with a great theme! loving my smaller groups of 12-18 kids lately.
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