Animal Friends: Story Time and Early Learning

Does your child love animals?  Do they love hearing stories?  If so, Animal Friends Story Time and Early Learning would be a wonderful match for your preschool child.  This ongoing class for preschool kids will offer story time, animal study, and an early learning concept each week.  Your kids will be delighted to hear carefully selected and engaging stories read to them, learn a few facts and see images of the animal of the week, and wrap up the session with an early learning lesson on topics such as letter sounds, counting and patterning or shapes and colors.
Week 1:  Bear
Week 2:  Whale
Week 3:  Owl
Week 4:  Seahorse
Week 5:  Elephant
Week 6:  Monkey
Week 7:  Sloth
Week 8:  Penguin
Week 9:  Octopus
The class will start with a greeting and asking students to show their stuffed animal friend that they may have brought along.  Next, several carefully selected picture books will be read to the students in an engaging manner.  An animal study follows with students learning a few facts and seeing images of the animal of the week. Afterwards, an early learning lesson geared toward preschoolers will be presented learning.  Lessons will focus on letter identification and sounds or counting and patterning or shapes and colors.  We will close our class by saying our goodbyes to everyone.

This class will engage students and will allow them to ask and answer questions.  Some slides will be shown for animal study and early learning lessons.  This is an ongoing class so there is no need to have learned material from prior classes before joining a new one.

Books for read aloud may include:
Giraffes Can’t Dance, Giles Andrea
Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type, Doreen Cronin
Big Red Barn, Margaret Wise Brown
Minerva Louise, Janet Morgan Stoeke
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, Laura Numeroff
One Duck Stuck, Phyllis Root
Officer Buckle and Gloria, Peggy Rathman
Dinosaur Dance, Sandra Boynton
The Mitten, Jan Brett
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr
Kitten’s First Full Moon, Kevin Henkes
Tiptoe Joe, Ginger Foglesong Guy
Swimmy, Leo Lionni
Thank You Mr. Panda, Steve Antony
The Little Country Bunny and the Golden Shoes, Dubose Hayward and Majorie Flack
Octopus Alone, Divya Srinivasan
Sheep in a Jeep, Nancy Shaw
Martha Blah Blah, Susan Meddaugh