Sheep Storytime, Friday, March 14 @ 10:30

 Intro

I go around the group and say everyone's name in Sheep. My name is Travis, so my Sheep name would be Tra-a-a-a-vis. Emma would be Emma-a-a-a-a-a. Ethan would be Etha-a-a-a-a-an.

Here is the Green Sheep by Mem Fox I had a cut out green sheep I miraculously slipped out at the end.

Sneaky Sheep keep trying to get away with something on every page -- running with scissors, running with the bulls at Pamplona, finally escaping their guard dog and meeting up with the big bad wolf -- oh, I love these sheep. When I read it, I try to impress on all the sneaky little sheep in the audience just how naughty these sheep are, and those kids act like butter wouldn't melt.

Sheep Fairy

Who doesn't want to fly? I do! And granted one wish (for being such a good sheep) the Sheep Fairy saves the day! I can so identify with the Sheep Fairy. I wish I could rescue a fairy, be granted the ability to fly, and save my flock!

This is such a favorite of mine. I love to do Wendy's sheep voice, pulling out all the vowels of her dialog in a baaaaa, and the fairy in a teeny tiny voice.

Baa-Choo by Sarah Weeks

A fun readaloud. Great animal noise opportunities plus a giant sneeze. Be sure you have a handkerchief with you.

Karen Beaumont, always a fun author

Sheep are known for three things, being eaten by wolves and being counted to go to sleep and being eaten by wolves. This poor sheep falls into the middle category. Sheep just wants to go to sleep on what is very noisy farm, courtesy of Karen Beaumont's animal noises. A great, quick readaloud, excellent for two and three year olds. Even babies.

Craft

Two Ways:

1: Stencil sheep. I cut some big oval sheep bodies out of mylar and showed the children how to tape them to a piece of blue construction paper. If I had a die-cut machine (if!) I would have cut out some mylar 0′s and just elongated them a bit to speed things up.

I gave the children white poster paint in the ubiquitous baby jar lids and some cotton balls and they stenciled away. I showed them how to reposition the stencil to make more bodies and how to draw on eyeballs and ears.

The kids were a bit underwhelmed by their sheep pictures — next year I might experiment with puffy paint and googly eyes.

2. Next year Still don’t have that die cut and my numbers are larger. I showed the kids how to make a kind of circle shape on their paper using corks dipped in white paint. “Up and down” and twirl the paint around so it looks like fur. Then we drew on a “half-circle” or “semicircle” for the face with black marker and added black legs. I think the kids liked this better — less restrictive. I saw flocks of white blobs and blobs with very peculiar faces.

Wolf books:  I am the Wolf... And Here I come board book Guiettier

Songs?

Baa Baa Black Sheep -- Oh come on, they should hear it at least ONCE!
Little Boy Blue
Little Bo Peet
Mary Had a Little Lamb
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Three white sheep, three white sheep
See how white they are, See how white they are
They always remember to baaa every day
They never say mooo and they never say neigh
They never go quack while they nibble their hay
They're 3 white sheep

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  I love the way this guy interacts with the children, pulling the puppets out the bag and waiting for their response.

Great downloads from Kizclub

Green Sheep patterns

Kizclub makes available downloadable patterns for flannelboards or just metalboard tellings. Great source.