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!

Every Thursday in October
9:30am – 12:00pm
Ages: 2-4

Stories & Me

Students will practice writing their names while meeting new friends at our meet and greet! We will create our own “All About Me!” books. Students will learn why reading is important for our mind and paint a picture illustrating the process of turning trees into paper and eventually into books. Learn why taking care of books is so important with our Book Rules chart.

ELA – Reading Makes You Feel Good by Todd Parr
Writing – Name Practice Meet and Greet
Art – Create a StoryStar “All About Me!” Book
ELA – The Incredible Boy Eating Book by Oliver Jeffers
Science – NoodleTime!: Where Do Book Pages Come From?
Cooperative Learning – How Do We Treat Books?

Bad Apples

Students will support National Anti-Bullying month by writing friendly words in their word books. We will read stories on how not to be a ‘bad apple’ and finger paint our own friendly apples! Students will then learn to count by sorting apple seeds into groups.

ELA – Bad Apple by Edwards Hemingway
Writing – Friendship Words
Art – Friendly Apple Finger Painting
ELA – Stick and Stone by Tom Lichtenheld
Math – Sort & Count Apple Seeds

Apple Fest

This week is our Apple Fest! Students will make their own apple stamps to paint with. We will make homemade applesauce and create our classroom apple tree! All students will add new apple words to their word books.

ELA – Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins
Writing – Apple Words
Art – Apple Stamp Paintings
ELA – Bad Apple: Perfect Day by Edward Hemingway
Math – Counting by Tens

Colors of Fall

Fall is all about leaves! Students will create leaf prints and then design their own patterned leaf with tissue paper. We will learn why leaves change color and ‘hunt’ for all the colors in our classroom and sort the leaves into piles. But, be careful…the leaf blower may just blow all of our piles away. How silly!

ELA – Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall
Writing – StoryStars Book Creation – Autumn Words
Art – Leaf Prints
Math – Catch and Count Leaves
Science – Noodle Time!: How Do Leaves Change Color?