We've Got Mail

Mail Song
Mail, mail, mail your cards.
Letters, packages too.
The red flags up.
We've got mail
For story time and you.

Muddy Play Dough

What fun we had in our STEM Dinosaurs and Fossils program. If you want to make the mud play dough we used on the program you can follow the instructions below. 

Ingredients

2 1/2. C flour

1/2 C cocoa

1 1/2 C salt

2 T cream of tartar

3 C water

3 T oil

Combine dry ingredients in a large pot. Add wet ingredients and stir constantly over medium heat. 

Mixture will start off soupy and turn into a dough texture. At this point I put dough in my Kitchen Aid mixer and mix using the bread dough attachment. If you do not have a mixer keep mixing by hand.

When it is mixed knead the dough using cocoa. Let the dough cool completely and have fun. 

I cut dough in to squares and stored them in ziploc baggies and 2 weeks later they were still soft and ready for playing.

 

Thank you to Heidi's Recipes for the play dough recipe.

 

The More We Read Together

 

Hi Friends!!
We practice using sign language when we sing the song The More We Read Together in Family Story Time. I have created a video for you to view and practice at home.
We practice the signs for:
more
read
together
happy
book
We sing this song to the tune of Row, Row, Row, Your Boat.

The more we read together, together, together
The more we read together
The happier we'll be
For your books are my books
And my books are your books
The more we read together
The happier we'll be

I hope you enjoy.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

 

One, Two, Three strikes you're out!!!

We enjoyed counting 5 baseballs after we listened to Hap Palmer's version of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. What a great way to incorporate numbers into our fun story time. Palmer helps us practice more and less with this super fun song.  (CD: Can A Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet)

 

The books I used for story time:

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a Flannel Friday submission. For more information and the roundup schedule  check out The Flannel Friday Blog.

 

Flannel Friday July 12, 2013

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Happy summer to everyone. We are at the half way point at my libraries and having a great summer. Our summer reading club is going strong and I am looking forward to fall, believe it or not.

 I bet you all can believe it!

I hope you all enjoy my first FF Roundup :-)

Miss Angie

Library Quine at loonsandquines.blogspot.com shares adorably juice  Five Ripe Strawberries flannel.

I am honored to share Kathryn at kdr4xmom.blogspot.com and her  Hedgehog Fun. She said she was inspired by my Hedgehog Flannel I submitted a little while ago. Well I say great job to these adorable little creatures!!!

Sarah shares a  A Rainbow Horde of Dinosaurs at misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com. Of course we all know that green dinosaurs only eat green foods! That's why they are so green, right?

Mrs. Lisa at lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com gives us sharks, and dinos, and shapes, and trucks....oh my!!! Her posts are inspired by fellow Flannelers. Miss Lisa shares some awesome ideas.

Thriveafterthree.com can't resist Pete the Cat and neither can we!!! Do we cry? Goodness no!! We keep on singing our song.

Bumpin' up and Down on My Little Red Wagon might be my most favorite story time song. Katie from storytimesecrets.blogspot.com combines numbers, colors, and this tune to create a portable activity. "Sailing out to sea on my number one sailboat" Very catchy tune!!!

Bridget at whatisbridgetreading.blogspot.com shares 5 Colorful Dinosaurs. You can never go wrong with adorable dinosaurs.

Megan from missmegsstorytime.com makes us walk the plank with her ARR! Pirate flannel.

Piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com shares Oh! David!  No, David. This creative flannel gives the famous David  from David Shannon's books emotions. Yes, movable eyebrows, and mouth. The drama, the trauma!!!

I am Miss Angie from mrsandreslibrary.blogspot.com. I am sharing a flannel inspired by loonsandquines.blogspot.com. Like Miss Meg I did Pirates this week. We had so much fun singing the "Pirate wore a *insert color*  patch" song. They especially loved when the pirate wore a pink patch. I did not hand out patches this time, too many little ones; I hung them myself.

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Happy July everyone!!! I hope everyone had a fun and safe 4th of July!!
We are plugging along with summer reading and keeping up with story times at my libraries. ( I work at 2 libraries in Chester County, PA)

This is the first time I have hosted so I hope all goes well *fingers crossed*
Please leave your Flannel Friday submission in the comments below.
Please include the url for your post, your blog and anything you may want to say about your creation. I will compile the submissions and have them up Friday.

Have a happy day!!!

Miss Angie

The More We Read Together Video

* photo thank you to babysignlanguage.com

Most of you know how I love to practice sign language in story time. We have been getting really good at the song The More We Read Together using the signs for
more
read
together
happy
book
We sing this song to the tune of Row, Row, Row, Your Boat.

The more we read together, together, together
The more we read together
The happier we'll be
For your books are my books
And my books are your books
The more we read together
The happier we'll be

Stay tuned for a very special video I am working on. I will post it on youtube and provide the link here. You will then be able to practice our song and the signs at home.

Happy Reading!!

Miss Angie

P.S. The picture above means I love you :-)