New Books I Like

Great new ABC book! A through Z looking at street signs! Great book to take along in the car and play a game to see how many signs you come across! Environmental print fun!

 

It's words cre8ed with numbers! It reminds me of the old Concentration TV Game Show or trying to figure out license plates on the road! Great fun!

Bugs by the Numbers by Sharon Werner is the follow-up book to Alphabeasties. Both books create the image using numbers and letters. Very cool books!

Very nice new board books by Britta Teckentrup

 

If you have a little girl that likes to create things- a crafting, creative girl, this is a perfect book for her! I loved this book because Chloe is different, but she is creative and enjoys making unique gifts and other things. She also is kind and forgiving to a girl who wasn't kind to her which is a great example of being the better person! Liked this one a lot!

 

Miss Debbie's Resources

A lot of patrons ask me where I get my ideas. I decided to create a Pinterest Site for you with a lot of the online resources I use. There will be art & crafts, books, rhymes, early literacy and more. Anything I come across in my normal everyday work, I will pin here if there is a image or video to pin. Sometimes there isn't an image- for an example,  a list of the best preschool music cds without any images, and I can't pin it.

If you aren't familiar with Pinterest, don't worry! It's easy-peasy! You do not have to create a login to see the resources and you can follow simply by using your email address.

http://pinterest.com/missdebbieatfpl/

Hope this becomes a great resource for you!

Lemons & Limes, Apples & Oranges

We  read The Red Lemon by Bob Staake, An Orange In January by Dianna Hutts Aston and Apple by Nikki McClure.

We danced to Jim Gill's Silly Dance Contest. We sang a song to the tune of Peanut Butter & Jelly called Lemons, Lemonade:
First you take the lemons and you cut them, you cut them
Then you take the lemons and you squeeze them, you squeeze them
Then you add the sugar and the water, the water
Then you drop the ice cubes, and you stir it, you stir it
Pour yourself a glass and drink it, drink it
Lemon, lemonade- yeah! Lemon, lemonade-yeah! (Themes from A to Z by Education Center)

We used our lemon and lime props to work with positional words.

 

The limes are here, the lemons are there

The limes, the lemons are everywhere
The limes are up, the lemons are down
The limes, the lemons are all around
The limes are in, the lemons are out
The limes, the lemons are all about
The limes are low, the lemons are high
The limes, the lemons all say Good-bye!

 

We tasted lemons and limes. And then we did a short sequencing activity with a girl drinking lemonade.

 



I had these take-home activities: lime and lemon slices, apple and orange word sheets and a positional word game to use with the lemon and lime props. The A words worksheet was from Mailbox Magazine and the O-words sheet I made in Word. The Wacky Word games was from http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=16188