The girls and I actually got to go to two programs at the library this week since Head Start still does not have their classroom operating on a full schedule yet.... On Monday we went to "Tunes for Tots" which was very relaxed, there was a basket of books for the kids to choose from and the Librarian read to them and prompted them with questions about the books as the girls browsed through the choices. Once they were done with the books we listened to children's songs and danced and played with bubbles for the remainder of the hour.
On Tuesday we went back to the library for "Preschool Story Time" held at 10:30am each week. At this program there was some music at the beginning and then 3 stories followed up by a craft at the end. During the stories each child had a carpet square to sit on, which seemed to help a lot with getting the kids to sit still through the stories. The girls really enjoyed getting to put animals on the felt board as "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear?" was read. The last book we listened to was "The very clumsy click beetle" by Eric Carle and then we go to make click beetles of our own.
(Emma's left, Isabella's right)
To make a click beetle of your own all you need is a paper oval, a clothes pin, 3 pipe cleaners, some glue and some crayons. You want to start by drawing a face and coloring the body of the beetle. Then take the pipe cleaners and wrap them around the clothes pin to make the legs. Last you glue the clothes pin to the bottom of your paper oval and let dry.
Aiden, my son, would have really loved this story. He has played with many click beetles, though we always called them "popping bugs" because they would pop off the ground or out of his hand. I think the proper name is even more fitting. :)
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