Family Storytime: Numbers and Counting

We ended our summer storytime session by having a learning theme on numbers and counting. The smaller group I had was a bit antsy from the summer weather, so it was a short storytime but we made the most out of it. After following along to the movements in our bean bag song, we read two books, did a flannel activity, and had fun making our craft.

The books we read were Let's Count Goats by Mem Fox and Stack the Cats by Susie Ghahremani. We counted some popsicles on the flannel board and went over their colors before we had to move on to our craft.

For our craft, the group had to glue ladybugs onto their leaves and put one dot on one ladybug, two dots on two ladybugs, and so on until they had five ladybugs filled with dots. This was great counting practice and was a challenge for the younger ones.

Other books on counting/numbers:
 1 Big Salad by Juana Medina
123 Peas by Keith Baker
I Know Numbers! by Taro Gomi
Pretty Kitty by Karen Beaumont
Bear Counts by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
Groovy Joe Dance Party Countdown by Eric Litwin 

I would have definitely used Pretty Kitty if my group could stand a longer story and Groovy Joe Dance Party has a free movement song to go along with the story.

We'll be taking a storytime break to get some weeding done, putting on other programs, and of course prepping for fall storytime themes. In the meantime, I'll be posting on some of my other programs going on.