Black and White Spanish and Bilingual StoryTime and Craft: October 25th and October 27th, 2012

For this week's set of story times, I put on a special shadow puppet show featuring a Spanish version of I Know An Old Lady. The children's department of the Stanislaus County Library has a large, very nice puppet theater that is easy to put together, which I used, although it could be done without it (a large cardboard box with an opening would do just fine). I just hung a white sheet over the theater, placed a lamp with a bendy neck on a chair to position it higher up, and turned out all the lights after turning the lamp on. It worked magnificently. In another post, I will share the resources I used for the shadow puppet show and pictures of my puppets. 

As part of the special black and white theme for the week, I also had an ultra simple art project for the kids to work on after the stories and songs: drawing on black construction paper with chalk. How easy is that? Hardly any preparation is needed, and clean-up is a cinch!

Hora de Cuentos Plan:
Theme: Black and White
Literacy Skill: Print Motivation

Walk-in song: Quiéreme Por Lo Que Soy/Charlotte Diamond (Soy Una Pizza)

Welcoming comments

Literacy tip: Haciendo su propio teatro de titeres de sombra usando una sábana y lámpara es un modo sencillo, barato, y divertido para hacer cuentos emocionantes.

Activity song:  El Baile de las Manos/Jorge Anaya (¡A Bailar! Let's Dance!) 

Fingerplay: La Familia

1st story: La Primera Luna Llena de Gatita/Kevin Henkes

Activity song: Cabeza y Hombres/Sarah Barchas

Fingerplay: Lunita

2nd story: Parecía Como Leche Derramada (It Looked Like Spilt Milk)/Charles G. Shaw *flanneboard

Standing fingerplay: La Araña Pequeñita

3-D story: Conozco Una Viejita Que Se Comió una Mosca (I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly *shadow puppet show

4th story: ¿Qué es Negro y Blanco? (What Is Black and White?)/Petr Horáček *I translated this story as I read it as it's quite short.

Instrument song: Lluvia de Estrellas/Terri Hendrix (Putumayo: Latin Playground) *with bells

Stamp hands and bubbles

Hand stamp song: Caballito Blanco/José-Luis Orozco (De Colores)

Bilingual Story Time Plan:
Theme: Black and White
Literacy Skill: Print Motivation

Walk-in song: If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake/Sharon, Lois, and Bram (Elephant Party)

Welcoming comments

Literacy tip: Haciendo su propio teatro de titeres de sombra usando una sábana y lámpara es un modo sencillo, barato, y divertido para hacer cuentos emocionante. Making a shadow puppet theater of your own using a sheet and a lamp is a simple, cheap, and fun way to make stories come alive.

 Activity song:  El Baile de las Manos/Jorge Anaya (¡A Bailar! Let's Dance!) 

Fingerplay: La Familia

1st story: La Primera Luna Llena de Gatita/Kevin Henkes

Activity song: Bodies 1, 2, 3/Peter and Ellen Allard (Sing It! Say It! Stamp It! Sway It! Vol. 2)

Fingerplay: Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

2nd story: It Looked Like Spilt Milk/Charles G. Shaw *flannelboard

Standing fingerplay: La Araña Pequeñita

3-D story: Conozco Una Viejita Que Se Comió una Mosca (I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly *shadow puppet show

4th story: What Is Black and White?)/Petr Horáček *I translated this story as I read it as it's quite short.

Instrument song: Lluvia de Estrellas/Terri Hendrix (Putumayo: Latin Playground) *with bells

Stamp hands and bubbles

Hand stamp song: I Know an Old Lady/Learning Station (Here We Go Loopty Loo and Songs to Make You Move)

The Craft: Drawing with Chalk on Black Construction Paper

You'll need:
-Black construction paper (I did full sheets of the long construction paper, but one could easily cut them in half)
-Chalk (I broke all the chalk pieces in half to have more pieces and also because it's easier for the little ones to handle)

Instructions for the kids:
-Draw!