Thursday, September 29, 2011

Guessing Games

Openers:
The More We Get Together


Flora's Blanket (Debi Gliori) 2-5
The hunt is on for Flora's blanket!  Where she finds it is a sleepy and pleasant surprise.
Game:  I Spy With My Little Eye
Finger Play:  Where is Thumbkin




Who ate All the Cookie Dough? (Karen Beaumont) 2-5
This delightfully colorful, bold, and energetic story by Karen Beaumont and illustrator Eugene Yelchin sends Mama kangaroo hunting for her lost cookie dough.  Laugh along with the unexpected ending!
Game:  Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar (w/ puppet)
Game:  Skizamaroo and Timbuktu (w/ animals)





I Went Walking (Sue Williams ) 2-4
Go for a walk and guess what critter you'll come across next!
Wiggler:  Walking, Walking
Wiggler:  Sticky, Sticky Bubble Gum

Felt Board Story:
What is Missing

Closer:  
Wave Goodbye Poem

Take Home:  
Matching Game

Coming up Next Week:
Barrel of Apples


More Books!
Toddler                                                                                                                                               Duck's Key, Where Can It Be? by Jez Alborough
I Lost My Dad by Taro Gomi
I Miss You Mouse by Greg Foley 
I Went Walking by Sue Williams
Maggie's Ball by Lindsay Barrett George
Mommy, Where Are You? by Leonid Gore
Peek In My Pocket by Sarah Weeks
Strange Case of the Missing Sheep by Mircea Catusang
Treasure Hunt by Allen Ahlberg
What's the Matter, Bunny Blue?  by Nicola Smee
Where's the Fish? by Taro Gomi
Who Says Woof? by John Butler
Whose Chick Are You? by Nancy Tafuri
Whose Nose and Toes? by John Butler
Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Jane Manning
Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? by David Carter
Who Took the Farmer's Hat? by Joan Nodset
Yum! by SAMi

Preschool 
Augustus and His Smile by Catherine Rayner
Closer Look by Mary McCarthy
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Foggy Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt
Guess Who?  by Guido Van Genechten
Have You Seen Duck?  by Janet A. Holmes and Jonathan Bentley 
Here A Face, There A Face by Arlene Alda
Hide and Snake by Keith Baker
I Spy With My Little Eye by Edward Gibbs
Look Book by Tana Hoban
Looking for a Moose by Phyllis Root
Lost! by David McPhail
Missing Chick by Valeri Gorbachev
Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw by Bruce McMillan
Parts by Shelley Rotner
Peek! A Thai Hide-and-Seek by Minfo Ho
Puppy Is Lost by Harriet Ziefert 
Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
We're Going On A Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
We're Going On A Lion Hunt by David Axtel
What Is This? by Anje Damm
Where in the World is Henry? by Lorna and Lecia Balian
Where Is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont

School Age
Bertie Was A Watchdog by Rick Walton
Farley Follows His Nose by Lynn Johnston
Grandpa's Teeth by Rod Clements
I Feel A Foot! by Maranke Rinck and Martijn van der Linden
Imagine by Normal Messenger (share an excerpt)
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard
Moose Tracks! by Karma Wilson
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
Puzzlehead by James Yang
Science Verse by Jon Scieska (share several poems)
Secret Knowledge of Grownups by David Wisniewski (share an excerpt) 
Steal Back the Mona Lisa! by Megan McCarthyTrue Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Web Files by Margie Palatini
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins (share a few scenarios)

Display for Children to Explore                                                                                        Composer is Deadby Lemony Snicket
Find Anthony Ant by Lorna and Graham Philpot
Follow the Line by Laura Ljungkvist
I Spy Colors in Art by Lucy Micklethwait
I Spy series by Walter Wick
Look-Alikes series by Joan Steiner
Private I. Guana by Nina Laden
Scoop! by John Kelly
Searching for Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison
Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer
Tough Cookie by David Wisniewski
Trouble With Normal by Charise Mericle Harper
What Really Happened to Humpty? by Jeanie Franz Ransom
Who's Hiding? by Satoru Onishi