MLA Presentation 2010



Using the MO Building Block Award in Story Times

The Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award is sponsored by the Children’s Services Round Table of the Missouri Library Association. The Award was created to help Missouri Public libraries focus on the importance of picture books to foster reading aloud to children. By reading aloud to children we encourage language development and pre-reading skills and development of visual perception/discrimination.

By offering this award’s nominees each year we hope to provide parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children an introduction to a variety of authors and illustrators of quality books, with diverse themes, cultures and topics.

This past year with thanks to the schools and libraries we had over 15,000 children vote on the Building Block Award. With your involvement we hope to have even more children involved.

The Missouri Library Association has created a Listserv to which we invite you to subscribe. You can find more info at

More information on the Missouri Building Block Award can be found at

If you’re interested in participating in the Building Block committee, either as a member/reader or as a listener, please contact either of us.

Ron Freeman: ronfreeman@

Julie Schwartz: jschwartz@

The Books 2010:

(In an effort to avoid copyright infringement, we confess that most of these summaries have been stolen from the “Novelist” database.)

Are You a Horse? by Andy Rash

Summary: When Roy gets a saddle for his birthday, he goes in search of a horse.

Songs:

If I Were A Horse

(Sung To: "Mr. Ed Theme Song")

If I were a horse

A horse A horse

I'd like to be a (a color) horse

I'd like to be a (a color) horse

And my name would be (Child's Name)

Mr. Ed Theme Song

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And no one can talk to a horse of course

That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed.

Go right to the source and ask the horse

He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse.

He's always on a steady course. Talk to Mister Ed.

People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day

But Mr. Ed will never speak unless he has something to say

A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse.

You never heard of a talking horse?

Well listen to this: "I'm Mister Ed."

Craft: Clothespin Leg Horse ()

Craft: Hobby Horse with wrapping paper tube

Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas

Summary: As three dust bunnies, Ed, Ned, and Ted, are demonstrating how much they love to rhyme, a fourth, Bob, is trying to warn them of approaching danger.

Game:

“Thumbs Up!”

Show three pictures and/or say three words; if they rhyme, tell kids to give it a thumbs up, if they don't rhyme, it's thumbs down (hat, mat, cat; dad, glad, mommy).

Song: “The Name Game” (Alex Alex Bo Balex, Bananafana Fo Falex…)

Song: “Willoughby Wallaby Woo” by Raffi Singable Songs for the Very Young.

Song: “The One that Doesn’t Rhyme” by Hap Palmer

Rhyming Dust Bunnies activity sheets:

Can You Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas

Summary: A ladybug invites the reader to play a game of "let's pretend."

Rhyme: “Making Faces” from Calling All Toddlers by Francesca Simon

Activity: Teach the Chicken Dance

Activity: Bring a face Painter

Craft: Make a frog flicker

Craft: Fly swatter art

Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal; illus. by Tom Lichtenheld

Summary: Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck.

Craft: Make a thaumotrope

Rhyme:

Waddle like a duck,

Do the bunny hop,

Dive into the water

With a big kerplop!

Wriggle your nose,

And quack, quack, quack,

Waddle to the front.

Now hop on back.

The Birthday Pet by Ellen Javernick; illus. by Kevin O’Malley

Summary: Danny can have a pet for his birthday and he knows exactly what he wants, but the other members of his family think differently.

Craft: Easy shapes turtle craft



Craft: Paper Plate Turtle:



Rhyme: “Mrs. Arthur Armbrooster Arbuster Getz”

Mrs. Arthur Armbrooster Arbuster Getz

Had a very strange habit of wearing her pets!

Around her waist was a garter snake

And in her pockets, mice

About her neck was a quick brown fox

And on her shoulder, a gerbil eating rice

Upon her shoe was a cockatoo

Upon her head, a hen

And by her side a pig would hide

And they were all the best of friends!

Put It on the List by Kristen Darbyshire

Summary: When family members see the consequences of forgetting to write things on the grocery list, they not only do better at keeping the list up-to-date, they also help with the shopping to ensure they never again eat pickled grubs.

Craft: Spaghetti painting – Kids love this craft! All you have to do is to put a couple of colors of tempera or poster paint on a pie tin or paper plate. The kids grab a piece of spaghetti at the end, dip it in the paint, a put in on their paper. They can lift it off the paper, or slide it off the paper. They can reuse the spaghetti strand (good for mixing colors) or get another one. When they are finished, they just leave the spaghetti on newspaper. If done correctly, no paint gets on their hands or clothes, but I keep wet ones and paint shirts handy just in case.

Games: Grocery Store Cards

Cut out pictures of different foods from ads or coupons and paste them on an Index card. Make them look like playing cards by writing the name (and/or food group) on the top and bottom of the picture. You can use these cards in many, many different ways. Some ideas are:

Go Fish (Using Food Groups)

Concentration

Sorting

Making Picture Grocery List

Rhyme/Activity: from “Mailbox Preschool,” June/July 2007

Fill a grocery bag with animal puppets; have children pull an animal from the bag while all recite:

_______ is off to the market

For eggs, milk and bacon.

Instead she buys a great ______

What a silly choice she’s makin’!

Song: “Sammy (I’m Glad I’m Me)” by Hap Palmer Getting to Know Myself.

Princess Pig by Eileen Spinelli; illus. by Tim Bowers

Summary: A pig believes herself to be a princess and behaves accordingly, but soon learns that being royalty has a price.

Craft: Pig in Mud – Copy a pig coloring sheet on card stock. Instead of having the kids color the sheet, have them make the pigs muddy by using a whipped cream/ instant chocolate pudding concoction.

Craft: Make pig tails by cutting a pink circle around and around toward the middle and then taping it onto the back of your pants.

Make pig snouts to wear out of empty toilet tissue rolls.

Craft: Have the children make pink thumbprints on a piece of paper and then make the prints into pigs.

The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen; illus. by Dan Hanna

Summary: The pout-pout fish believes he only knows how to frown, even though many of his friends suggest ways to change his expression, until one day a fish comes along that shows him otherwise.

Craft: Fingerprint fish – Copy a very simple fish outline on card stock. It should be at least 5”X 8”. Cut out the fish. The children then put their finger on a colored washable ink pads and make scales with their fingerprints.

Craft: Fish coloring sheets with ocean colored wash. Choose a relatively simple ocean life coloring page. Have the kids color it using bright colors. They should press down on the crayons relatively hard. Then take some very watered down blue or blue-green tempera paint, and have the kids “wash” all over their coloring sheet.

Rhyme:

If you chance to meet a frown

Do not let it stay

Quickly turn it upside down

And smile that frown away!

No one likes a frowning face

Change it for a smile

Make the world a better place

By smiling all the while.

Deborah Diesen downloads:

I Can Do It Myself! by Diane Adams; illus. by Nancy Hayashi

Summary: Emily Pearl is a big girl who insists on doing everything for herself until evening, when having someone help her get ready for bed is nice.

Rhymes:

I can clap, clap, clap

I can stomp, stomp, stomp

I can hop, hop, hop

I can stop, stop, stop

I can nod my head “yes”

I can shake my head “no”

And I can spin around very, very slow.

“I Can, You Can!”

I can put my hands up high. Can you?

I can wink my eye. Can you?

I can stick out my tongue. Can you?

I can open my mouth wide. Can you?

I can fold my arms. Can you?

I can cover my ears. Can you?

I can touch my nose. Can you?

I can give myself a great big hug. Can you?

Craft:

Create an “I Can” mini-book. Provide small pictures of things that kids can do. Let the children select pictures to glue into their book. Instructions for folding a mini-book from one sheet of paper:

Craft: Emily Pearl can tie her own shoes. Try this lacing and tying activity:

The Great Dog Wash by Shellie Braeuner; illus. by Robert Neubecker

Summary: Rhyming text welcomes the reader to a dog wash that goes awry when someone brings their cat.

Activity: Make the world’s greatest self-propelled bubble machine. 1) Use a hole punch to punch a hole in the top of a plastic cup. This hole should be as far down from the lip of the cup as the hole punch will allow. 2) Put a straw in the hole. The straw should be snug. 3) Fold a paper towel into fourths and secure it over the top of the cup with a rubber band. 4) Put a couple of drops of dishwashing soap in the middle of the paper towel. (We know that “Dawn” works, but we suspect that other brands would work just as well.) 5) Saturate the towel with water from a spray bottle. 6) Blow. If this doesn’t work, try adding more water and making sure the straw is tight and the paper towel is secure. If all else fails, contact Will Stuck (wstuck@sjpl.lib.mo.us)

Rhyme:

Fleagle the Beagle,

It’s time for the tub

I know you don’t like it

But you need a scrub

I’ll wash you with soap

From your tail to your head

And when you’re all clean

You can sleep in my bed

Song: “Rags”

I have a dog, his name is Rags.

He eats so much that his tummy sags,

His ears flip flop and his tail wig wags,

And when he walks, he goes zig zag.

He goes flip flop, zig zag, wig wag,

He goes flip flop, zig zag, wig wag,

He goes flip flop, zig zag, wig wag,

I love Rags and he loves me!

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