Flannel Friday Round-Up, 11/25/11

Here is this week's Flannel Friday Round-Up! I'm impressed by how many of us were able to post even with the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. I hope those of you who celebrated yesterday had a wonderful holiday and managed to survive any Black Friday shopping excursions you might have gone on today!

On to the links...

Angela (@annavalley) from valleystorytime has adapted Rebecca and Ed Emberley’s version of The Red Hen for the flannel board. 

Anne (@sotomorrow) is already thinking about Winter holidays, as she posts about Gregory Groundhog.

Cate (@storytimingcate) from Storytiming posts a rhyme about five wild coyotes.

Library Quine (@Library_Quine) from Loons & Quines gets in one last Fall flannel board with her version of  Five Little Leaves, as well a Little Mouse guessing game.   

Linda (@LMeuse) from Notes from the Story Room introduces to "Pebble Patterns" - a Native American game similar to Memory.  

Liz (@readmrsd) from Putting Smiles on Faces shares Tom Turkey's Colorful Tail/Tale, a flannel story whose pieces can be made entirely from paper. (Apologies to Liz - your link is working now!)

Melissa (@MelissaZD) from Mel's Desk gives us a wonderful way to create felt people that makes it easier to adapt folktales and picture books for the flannel board. 

Moxie (@moxie_mibrarian) from Storytimes with Moxie shares a Thanksgiving themed post featuring Five Little Turkeys and Turkey in the Straw. 

Sarah (@sarah_e_hay) from Read It Again presents  Five Hungry Ants, a great food-related rhyme.

And finally, I'm Katie (@sharingsoda) from Story Time Secrets, and I'm sharing my flannel board ideas for my upcoming hibernation story time.

As always, the list of past round-ups and future hosts is kept by Anne at So Tomorrow. Don't miss next week's Flannel Friday Holiday Extravaganza, which will be hosted by Library Quine at Loons and Quines. Also visit Flannel Friday on Facebook and Pinterest.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Flannel Friday: Hibernation

I am taking just a brief break from holiday themes this week to share two flannel boards I'll be doing at a preschool story time about hibernation. Depending on how well they go over at my public story times, I might also use them for preschool and Pre-K school visits. 

This first rhyme sounds somewhat suggestive, so I gave it a title that states from the get-go what we're talking about. The rhyme sounded familiar to me as though I'd read it somewhere before, but my source for  this post was educationworld.com.

Who Hibernates?

Brown bears do it.

Ladybugs too.

Bats

and snakes,

And a frog or two.

Groundhogs 

and chipmunks

in a sleepy state.

What do they do?

They hibernate!

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This song is sung to the tune of Frere Jacques, which makes it ideal for my group since we sing that as part of Laurie Berkner's ABCD Medley almost every week. My idea is to put one animal on the board at the time, then put up the place where it hibernates as we approach that point in the verse.

 

Time for Hibernation

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Big brown bear, big brown bear?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In a log, in a lair.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Hanging bat, hanging bat?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In a cave is where I'm at.

 

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Garter snake, garter snake?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In the mud, in a lake.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Little green frog, little green frog?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In a pond, near a log.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Meadow mouse, meadow mouse?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
in a field, near a house.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Turtle friend, turtle friend?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In the stream, till winter's end!

 
All clipart in this post came from Clker.com.

This week, the Flannel Friday round-up will be posted right here at Story Time Secrets! I'll be checking Twitter throughout the day, but also feel free to comment here with your links. The round-up will be up this afternoon!

7 Thanksgiving Books for Kids

	I Am The Turkey by Michele Sobel Spirn Mark gets stage fright when he plays the turkey in the class Thanksgiving play.
	Thank You, Sarah by Laurie Halse Anderson A historical picture book about the woman who saved Thanksgiving.
	Thank You, Thanksgiving by David Milgrim A little girl gives thanks for everything that matters to her.
	Turkey Monster Thanksgiving by Anne Warren Smith Katie is upset when her dad doesn't want to have a traditional Thanksgiving like their neighbors'.
	Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen Molly is embarrassed when her pilgrim doll isn't like everyone else's in her class.
	One is a Feast for Mouse by Judy Cox A little mouse indulges on yummy Thanksgiving food.
	It's Thanksgiving by Jack Prelutsky A collection of funny rhyming poems for beginning readers.

Gettin' Crafty Post #7: Magnetic Poetry

For an introduction to this new series of Gettin' Crafty posts, visit Post #1.

I. Supplies 

Color-a-Mag Magnetic Paper (from Michael's)

Krylon Magnetic Paint (from Home Depot)

Markers

II. Prep

Note before I begin this description that my intended plan for this craft did not work. With my fiance's help, I cut up a cardboard box and spray painted small squares with the magnetic paint, so the kids would be able to use their magnets on their own small board. The paint seemed to work, but we only tested it with a very small magnet. When I got it to work on the day of the craft, none of the cardboard pieces would hold a magnet at all. 

The only other preparation required was to cut the magnet paper on the cutting board into various sizes. My original idea was that kids would use it to make words of different lengths, but when the magnetic paint failed, I advertised it as simply "make your own magnets" instead and most of the kids drew pictures instead of writing.

III. Instructions

The sign I put out with the craft invited the kids to create their magnets and then test them out on some metal bookends. It was not a very well-attended program, and unless I can figure out how to make magnetic boards for each child, I won't be doing it again.

Next time: Stencils.