Event Phone: 716-362-7848

StoryStars is designed to help children take an interest in books and literature at an early age. With our enjoyable and fun themes each week, children see how exciting reading can be! Each week will focus on age-appropriate literary skills while incorporating art, science, math and cooperative learning into the lessons. We will add to our Word Wall each week and children can continue to practice these skills at home with the provided materials. Every child can learn to love stories, and our theme, as always, is Having Fun…One Book at a Time!

January 7, 14, 21, 28
9:30am – 12:00pm
Ages: 2-4

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats focuses on picture storytelling. Students will compare what we see outside our own window with what we see in the story. We will trace our snow words in our own homemade snow and get a little messy as we explore our new creation. Students will learn about the water cycle and create a pictorial representation of how snow is created.

ELA – The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Writing – Words in Snow
Art: Homemade Snow
Science: Noodletime! How is Snow Made?

Jan Brett’s classic story The Mitten will spark children’s curiosity and imagination. We will practice writing vocabulary words from the book and will write our own creative tales of losing a mitten. Students will decorate a mitten and exercise with a Mitten March song!

ELA –The Mitten by Jan Brett
Writing – Creative Writing: If I Lost My Mitten…
Art – Decorate A Mitten
Cooperative Learning – Mitten March

Thomas loves to say the word NO! Our students will express with pictures when it is appropriate and inappropriate to say “no.” We will write sentences about what types of clothes are worn in winter and sort winter and summer clothes. We will make a winter outfit out of clay and have a Winter Wear Relay Race!

ELA –Thomas’ Snowsuit by Robert Munsch
Writing – Sentence Start: What Do You Wear During Winter?
Art – Winter Clothes Clay Creations
Cooperative Learning: Winter Wear Relay Race

Each snowflake is unique, just like you and me! Our story will illustrate snowflakes in many different shapes. We will trace winter words on a snowflake and make snowflake hats. Children will identify shapes they see in snowflakes and then practice counting them too!

ELA – Snow by Uri Shulevitz
Writing – Winter Word Tracing
Art – Snowflake Hats
Math – Snowflake Counting