Pets Prop Box

This week, we began our study on pets. With the help of one of our parent volunteers, we used this nicely decorated cardboard box as a prop box to introduce the topic of pets.

We put several different items in the box including a dog leash and collar, a food/water bowl, and a dog toy. Also I added photos of different pets.

I also checked out a box of puppets from our resource room to use with the kids. They seem to really be interested in the puppets.

More pet activities to come!

Storytime Sunday: Pets I

This week we have began our pets study. Here are the books we read:

 This is from Lakeshore's Phonics Reader series. I love these books because they come with a big book and several small paperbacks for the kids to look at individually.

Also, they have a list of the sight words in the back.

Here is another of the readers. There are rhyming words in this one and you can give children the opportunity to answer questions about the pictures.

And lastly, we read Fifteen Animals which has a song on CD to go with it. The kids like this song because it has a catchy beat and just wait to see what special names the author gives all the animals!

Happy Reading!