Bees, Snails, and Peacock Tails by Betsy Franco and Steve Jenkins
Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
and The Monkey with a Bright Blue Bottom by Steve Smallman
After our first book, we'll play a finish-the-pattern flannel game from Notes from the Story Room.
After the second book, we'll sing "Clap Your Hands" from American Folk, Game & Activity Songs by Pete Seeger. We'll talk about how patterns can be in sounds as well as images.
Our craft today will be to make a patterned friendship bracelet with pony beads--the pattern is the child's choice.
Parents will be given a take-home sheet of activities from the Virtual Pre-K kit so parent and child can have more fun with patterns at home.
For toddler storytime, instead of the finish-the-pattern flannel game, we'll match patterned dinosaurs with solid colored ones, an idea from Piper Loves the Library.
Other pattern and sorting books for storytime friends to check out:
Alike or Not Alike?: A Photo Sorting Game/ Kristen McCurry
I Like Black and White/ Barbara Jean Hicks
Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom/ Stuart J. Murphy
Old Bear's Surprise Painting/ Jane Hissey
A Pair of Socks/ Stuart J. Murphy
Patterns Outside/ Daniel Nunn
Sort It Out!/ Barbara Mariconda
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth/ Margaret Musgrove
Spotty, Stripy, Swirly: What Are Patterns?/ Jane Brocket
A Star in My Orange: Looking for Nature's Shapes/ Dana Meachen Rau
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature/ Joyce Sidman
