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!

May 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th &  June 2nd
9:30am – 12:00pm
Ages: 2-4

Our first country to discover is France! We will travel where our story character goes and build our own Eiffel tower out of paper clips. We will find France on the map and make crepes to enjoy!

ELA: The Cat who Walked Across France
Writing: Sentence Start – The Cat Wanted To Go To….
Art: Paperclip Eiffel Tower
Map Skills: Where is France?
Writing: Travel Words
Story Chefs: Make Crepes!

Let’s travel to Italy with Olivia! We will write down what Olivia sees and make some delicious gelato to eat and paint. Children will use their newly learned geographical skills to find Italy on a map.

ELA:Olivia Goes to Venice by Ian Falconer
Writing: Sentence Start – What did Olivia do in Venice?
Art: Paint Me Gelato
Map Skills: Where is Italy?
Writing: Travel Words
Story Chefs: Make Gelato!

Cooking is a part of every culture and in our storytime today we will learn about authentic Korean cooking. We will write a shopping list and “go” to the market to get all of our ingredients. We will cook rice like our character does and then create our own cookbooks to take home!

ELA: Bee Bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park
Writing: Sentence Start – What Ingredients Do We Need?
Art: Make a Cookbook
Map Skills: Where is Korea?
Story Chefs: Make Rice!

Today, students will travel with Amelia Earhart and create our own painted airplanes! We will make adventure bottle caps to show our flights. Children will highlight our map to see where Amelia flew.

ELA: Amelia’s Fantastic Flight by Rose Bursik
Writing: Who was Amelia Earhart?
Art: Amelia’s Plane
Map Skills: Where Did Amelia Fly?
Art: Adventure Bottle Caps!

For our last class until the fall, students will get to celebrate their StoryStar year with a Cupcake Camp Out! We will decorate cupcakes and play games around our campfire. Students will practice their names they worked hard on all year by signing little yearbooks!

ELA: Storytime Book Chosen by Children
Art: Cupcake Decorating
Writing: Sign Our Yearbooks
Performance: What I Loved About StoryStars…